3 Tips to Help Alleviate Perimenopause

3 Natural Tips on How to Alleviate PeriMenopause Discomfort

Women in their 40’s and 50’s typically experience many of the discomforts related to being perimenopausal.  Though each individual is unique, common issues include heat flashes, sleep disturbances, irritability, osteoporosis, depression, heavy bleeding, brain fog and weight gain.  Whether it is one or all of these issues that a woman is experiencing, it can be very unpleasant and downright frustrating – even leaving you to feel helpless to the body’s roller coaster.   

Regular western medicine offers hormonal replacement therapies; however, these carry their own risks including breast cancer, stroke and heart attack.  There are various natural ways to avoid synthetic hormone replacement therapy and the risks and side effects associated with them.   

We recommend the following 3 simple natural tips to help relieve your perimenopausal discomforts:

  1. Eat a balanced diet including foods that are high in phytoestrogens such as soy, tofu and chickpeas to help relieve the discomfort of heat flashes and control weight gain.  Foods that are high in complex carbohydrates such as brown rice and whole wheat grains will also help.
     
  2. Daily intake of Calcium and Vitamin D and regular exercise of 20 minutes three times per week improves mood swings, reduces the frequencies of heat flashes and prevents bone loss and degeneration.  This also helps control weight gain. 
     
  3. Last, but not least, reducing intake of alcohol, caffeine and processed high-fat foods. By doing this, you will improve your sleep pattern and reduce the occurrences of heat flashes, irritability and impatience.   

While these three simple tips will help ease the general issues related to your perimenopausal state, the correct and proper homeopathic remedy can assist even more with feeling balanced, healthy and cruising through this period of time with ease.   You need not feel helpless to what your body is experiencing.  Let me know if I can help.

To your health,
Bat-sheva Hoter, Homeopath
Portland, Oregon

For questions please consult Bat-sheva Hoter at: 503-830-3642