Manage Your Menopause Naturally. Maryon Stewart
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Название: Manage Your Menopause Naturally
Автор: Maryon Stewart
Издательство: Ingram
Жанр: Здоровье
isbn: 9781608686834
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Sample Menus for Vegetarians
CHAPTER 12 Recipes for a Healthier, Happier You
Breakfast and Brunch Dishes
Salads
Soups
Main Dishes
Desserts and Snacks
CHAPTER 13 Dietary Resources
Phyto-Rich and Gluten-Free Products
Nutritional Content of Foods
Appendix I: UK Food Recommendations
Appendix II: Forms and Websites
Natural Menopause Solution Worksheet
Diet Diary
Menopause Symptom Diary
Useful Websites
Acknowledgments
Medical References
Index
About the Author
The menopause is a milestone in every woman’s life. We may greet it with relief as an end to the tyranny of premenstrual syndrome, contraception, periods, and migraines, or we may regret the loss of fertility in the acknowledgment of aging. Most women feel a mixture of emotions, but what we really want is information about the process. We want to know what options are available so that we can make informed decisions about our future health and feel comfortable with our choices. This book is designed to help women do this.
Just as all women are emotionally, physically, and spiritually different, so are their experiences with menopause. Some women never experience a hot flash or night sweat, while others find their quality of life seriously compromised by hot flashes (or hot flushes, as we call them in the UK), night sweats, and a host of other debilitating symptoms that leave them feeling like shadows of their former selves, often scared and isolated.
Menopause is not a disease. It is a normal transition in the life of every woman who lives long enough to experience it. And regardless of the symptoms experienced before, during, or after menopause, it is a good time for a woman to take stock of her health and make changes that will help her to live a long, healthy, and happy life. After all, we can now expect to live as long after menopause as before menopause.
What women choose to do about their symptoms, or their health, at menopause is a highly individual decision. Whether or not a woman needs, or chooses, to use hormone therapy, all women should know what they can do to feel better — perhaps even better than before menopause.
With more than twenty-eight years of expertise in women’s health, Maryon Stewart is bringing her highly successful menopause program from the United Kingdom to the United States. Women going through perimenopause and menopause now have a chance to improve their quality of life naturally through her Six-Week Natural Menopause Solution.
Manage Your Menopause Naturally helps women understand what to expect at menopause. More important, it enables women to make choices that will help them stay healthy and vital in the ensuing years. Health and vitality do not come in a bottle. They are reliant on the choices we make regarding our diet, exercise regimen, and other behaviors. Maryon Stewart’s Natural Menopause Solution helps guide women to make healthy, science-based choices from perimenopause through to their postmenopausal years.
— Emmanuela Wolloch, MD, FACOG, holistic gynecologist
WELCOME TO THE SECOND HALF OF YOUR LIFE
Making This the Time of Your Life
What if I told you that in a few weeks you could be feeling serene, sexy, wise, and calm, with harmonious hormones and free of your menopause symptoms? Wouldn’t you want that? My Six-Week Natural Menopause Solution has already helped thousands of women improve their well-being. You can be next.
In 2020, more than 50 million women are going through menopause in the United States, and it’s estimated that one billion women around the world will be experiencing menopause by 2025. That’s 12 percent of the entire world population! You are certainly not alone. And while more than 75 percent of women will experience symptoms of meno-pause — such hot flashes, mood swings, difficulty concentrating, sleep problems, and loss of sex drive — for a decade or longer, 55 percent of those women won’t do anything to try to alleviate them.
Often healthcare providers aren’t stepping in to help, either. A Mayo Clinic study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 2019 found that many doctors and gynecologists lack training or even a basic understanding of menopause management. Only 7 percent of them felt adequately educated to help women going through meno-pause. So women are simply left wondering what has hit them, understandably feeling that this is the beginning of the end.
It seems completely unfair to me that so many women of a certain age are experiencing misery unless they are armed with sufficient knowledge to do a U-turn. The information and tools to do that are out there. But conflicting advice and information overload on the internet often make it difficult to know where to start and whom to believe.
Many women who are savvy, straight-talking problem-solvers in other areas of life seem to roll over and become victims when it comes to problems with perimenopause and menopause. Why is it that so many of us accept discomfort and stress and assume it’s all part of being a woman? It’s a time when huge numbers of us lose ourselves and feel as if we’ve been taken over by an alien. It can be frightening and isolating: the symptoms are sometimes even too personal to discuss with our best friends.
While this book was in production, the COVID-19 pandemic hit, creating additional responsibilities, anxiety, stress, and fear that most of us had never anticipated. In addition to all the other challenges and difficulties women face at midlife, we have had to worry about our own health and that of our friends and families; about our income, jobs, and education; and about what the “new normal” will look like for those who survive the crisis. Many of us have been stressed by being confined in our homes and isolated from others, caring for family members twenty-four hours a day, and having to adapt to working and learning from home. Essential workers have faced extraordinary demands on their mental, physical, and emotional stamina. It’s not surprising that many women feel they’re being pushed into a danger zone, feeling unable to cope mentally.
We can’t control external events, but we can take steps to improve our own well-being and resilience. СКАЧАТЬ