About 80% of women are affected by the gradual decrease of hormone secretion, before and after the menopause will appear "menopausal syndrome", showing hot flashes, palpitations, insomnia, agitation, irritability, frequent urination, osteoporosis, lumbago, urinary incontinence and other symptoms. To ease the discomfort, many women choose to supplement soy isoflavones and other to regulate.
In fact, we can't rely on a single nutrient to maintain good health, and it is recommended that we consume balanced nutrition from natural ingredients. In addition to a balanced diet, menopausal women should take moderate supplements of calcium, magnesium, vitamin B complex, soy products, and vitamins C and E, as well as exercise to relieve stress and promote bone health, in order to effectively prevent and improve menopausal symptoms.
The dietary advice for menopausal women is to make your own calcium supplements. Nutrition "heart" meal emphasizes "three low, one high" and "four less, one more", respectively: low oil, low salt, low sugar, high fiber; less fried, less fat, less fat, less calories, more vegetables. Women can usually eat more tomatoes, kiwi fruit or black fungus and other foods. Tomatoes are rich in lycopene, for improving the composition of blood fat has a secondary effect, and has the ability to antioxidant, so for cardiovascular disease has a health effect.
Body - Chinese medicine
Women after 45 years old, there will be a bad mood, depressed phenomenon, in fact, this is the menopause syndrome. Menopausal women often have heart palpitations, but there will be no chest tightness, tingling heart blood stasis and lack of oxygen phenomenon, if excessive tension, stimulate the sympathetic nerves, so that the heartbeat accelerated, but will aggravate the phenomenon of palpitations, mistakenly thought to be suffering from heart disease. In fact, as long as the electrocardiogram results are normal and there are no large tendons under the tongue, it is a common palpitation phenomenon in menopausal syndrome, so there is no need to be too alarmed.
Palpitations are a discomfort that can be felt in the beating of the heart. The heart may beat too fast, too slow, irregularly, or at a normal rate. Menopausal women will have palpitations, from the hormones began to decrease due to, just most people think, the hormones began to decrease must be weak, think as long as the tonic, palpitations will be slowed down, in fact, is not the case.
For example, a fast and weak heartbeat or a slow heartbeat and chest tightness, coupled with fatigue, weakness in speech, weakness in the hands and feet, pale lips and nails, pale face, easy to be frightened, menstrual disorders, menstrual flow is significantly reduced, the color of the menstruation is becoming lighter, menstruation, dizziness, may be a deficiency of the heart and blood or heart and yin deficiency (more hot flashes), you can use the free powder or the added flavor of the free powder to adjust the condition of the heart palpitations.
If the heartbeat is too fast and powerful, mental exuberance, extreme fear of heat, mouth and tongue sores, dry mouth, bitter odor, irritability and insomnia, physical strength is still good, red tongue, yellow moss, etc. is the manifestation of the heart of the yang hyperactivity, accidentally ate ginseng, four things soup, heavenly king cardiac tonic Dan, will aggravate the phenomenon of palpitations, this time to a cup of lotus heart tea, can reduce the pain of the palpitations for a while.
Many women are very afraid of cold, but menopausal women are not afraid of cold, instead of heat. Often the phenomenon of fire king, and sometimes the cheeks will be red.
Menopausal hot flashes (also known as hot flashes) phenomenon has the hands and feet of the heart heat and the heart of the heat, that is, Chinese medicine, the so-called five heart heat, coupled with the face of the red panchromatic red and hot, so hot phenomenon, will make menopausal women are not afraid of the arrival of the cold, and even cold winter thin clothes. But in the cool summer, the internal and external attack of the heat phenomenon, coupled with the heart insomnia, heart and liver fire, hot flashes after this fire, adding oil, people more difficult.
The phenomenon of hot flashes, most of the Chinese medicine is designated as yin deficiency and dry heat, both yin deficiency and water insufficiency, on the hyperthermia, can be used to nourish the yin and clear the way to maintain heat. Chinese medicines such as xuan shen (玄参), sheng di (生地), mai men dong (麦門冬), tian men dong (天門冬), huang jing (黄精), yu zhu (玉竹) and so on have the effect of nourishing yin and clearing the heat and reducing hot flashes.
Consuming fruits and vegetables with high moisture content, such as white fungus, black fungus, okra, white radish and pear, as well as soybean milk and yam, which are rich in natural estrogen, are the best health foods to reduce the discomfort of hot flashes during menopause.
When heart palpitations and hot flashes become frequent, just ask a Chinese medicine practitioner to adjust your physical state, and these phenomena will lessen or disappear, and you will no longer experience bouts of panic attacks and hot flashes.
Psychology - Learning to reduce stress
Some women are prone to night sweats and hair loss around the time of menopause, but this can be improved with lifestyle adjustments and nutritional supplements.
Modern women have a high social status and are mostly working women. After retirement, they are faced with a change in their social roles, which makes it difficult for them to adjust to the psychological situation and more stressful, and if they don't have a normal daily routine at this time, they are prone to insomnia that leads to unstable moods and stressful relationships. It is recommended that women start to reduce stress and regularize their work and rest to prevent the discomforts of menopause, and further implement the life philosophy of "living in the moment" and "laughing happily", so that they can relax and move towards the "second adolescence" in their lives. The first step is to prevent the discomfort of the menopause and to further implement the philosophy of "live in the moment" and "laugh out loud".