Is perimenopause making you miserable?

As women age our hormone levels start to fluctuate this change can cause wide-ranging symptoms that leave you feeling blue. Perimenopause is a natural process and women from the age of 30 or earlier have reported beginning to experience unwanted and problematic symptoms. Experiencing perimenopause can have a huge detrimental impact on your mental health as well as your physical health. Many women report feelings of anxiety, stress or even depression.

Symptoms of perimenopause
These can include, low self-confidence, poor self-esteem, unable to concentrate and suffering from anxiety, feeling utterly miserable, forgetful, helpless, and not like your usual self. Many women report they want to burst into tears for no good reason. You may also be experiencing problems sleeping, which causes tiredness which exacerbates other symptoms. Often women find they are less productive at work, unable to concentrate, feel anxious, and not like their usual selves.

Natural solutions
There are lots of things you can try to alleviate mood swings, hot flushes, night sweats, joint pain, bladder issues, insomnia, changes to heart rate, changes to hair and skin, and weight gain without resorting to hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

What can help alleviate symptoms?
Ladies across the world have reported dietary and lifestyle changes can help ease the worst symptoms of perimenopause. So just by incorporating Phytoestrogens or plant oestrogens into your diet you can help to ease or offset some of the problematic symptoms caused by perimenopause.

The Mena-food range
Mena-Bread, Mena-Bars, and Mena-Muesli are specially formulated to contain foods with high levels of Phytoestrogens or plant oestrogens. These are natural substances which have the same chemical receptors as human oestrogen and can help reduce some of the worst symptoms of menopause by balancing out the highs and lows of hormone fluctuations caused by perimenopause.
 
At Mena-pause.com we work in harmony with the natural world, selecting the finest ingredients to make it easy for women to incorporate oestrogen-rich foods and snacks into their daily diet.

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