
A year without having my periods: am I in menopause?
No more period equals menopause? It depends, it’s a matter of months before it is confirmed so, let’s count first.
No more period equals menopause? It depends, it’s a matter of months before it is confirmed so, let’s count first.
No matter your age, menopause or not, the way you eat is always going to impact skin and overall health. With too much of this and not enough of that, the nutrients that are essential to your well-being are completely unbalanced.
Maybe your body wants to keep its strength and resources to get through this challanging time. Maybe there is another reason. The truth is, it’s not important to understand why; it’s more important to focus on maintaining a healthy body mass.
Menopause is an incredibly complicated process that not only affects the internal body but the skin as well. And since your skin is the window to your body (somehow…), it tends to show some signs of distress pretty quickly.
The things that weren’t good for you then, aren’t good for you now! Too sweet, too salty, too much fat — you name it. The good news is that avoiding is not the key, adapting is better.
Itchy, saggy, dry, those are the top 3 skin situations on your menopausal changes list. And dryness is also the most uncomfortable one so, good question. The skin’s inability to keep the water in seems to have a great responsibility in all this.
In order to properly treat your skin, there are skin care products that may be used during the menopause in order to ease out dry discomfort or densify skin. However, next to the good skin care treatments food and lifestyle are very important too.
During menopause, female hormones drop drastically. So what happens is testosterone takes over. Of course, you remain a woman and a pretty great one, it’s just that your masculine side wants to join the party. Here’s how it all works.