Cenegenics Complete Guide to Healthy Aging - (Page 23) Your personal Cenegenics team will explain the exact nature of any imbalance in your testosterone/ estrogen profile. With careful guidance, they’ll demonstrate how our intensive Executive Health Evaluation and related programs will help you take control of the situation and improve it. Perimenopause: What’s happening? The follicles’ ability to mature and release an egg starts to fluctuate. Ovaries continue to produce sufficient estrogen for shedding the egg, but estrogen production becomes erratic. During down times of estrogen production, ovulation doesn’t occur (anovulatory cycles). Menopausal symptoms ensue, such as bloating, mood swings and weight gain. Estrogen surges create additional effects, such as sleep disturbance, breast swelling or tenderness. For years, a woman may experience an irregular cycle of menses and the consequential symptoms: diminished libido; fatigue; depression; headaches; inability to cope with stress; hot flashes; cognitive difficulties; itchy skin; joint pain and backache; fibrocystic and sagging breasts; uterine fibroids and endometriosis; reduced metabolism; morning sluggishness; unstable blood sugar; symptoms of hypothyroidism (despite “normal” T3/T hormone levels). Many symptoms occur gradually and initially may appear unrelated, often causing women to be misdiagnosed. Everyone immediately links hot flashes to the onset of perimenopause, but what if your first symptoms are different—sleep disturbances, fatigue or depression? Menopause: What to expect. Menopause is considered complete when a woman has no periods for a full year. Timing varies from woman to woman, though the onset of menopause generally is complete by the early 0s. There really is no such thing as “post menopause” since menopause simply means the end of menses. Once a woman enters this momentous passage, she is, technically speaking, menopausal the rest of her life. Every woman is an individual, yet there are a number of general side effects that tend to occur as women enter this life passage. Some may seem as temporary nuisances to “tough out.” However, the reality is more serious. Diminishing hormone levels result in changes, which seriously affect a woman’s physical and mental health as well as her prospects for vitality. In addition to diminished estrogen and progesterone levels, reduced testosterone (produced in the ovaries) levels also become a factor during menopause. Profound degenerative changes begin to occur, as levels of these key hormones diminish. The Female Difference Female menopause: that time in every woman’s life when menstruation ceases completely. As ovaries decrease their estrogen and progesterone output, women experience effects of diminished hormone levels. Menopause not only signifies the end of a woman’s ability to have children, but it also purports the decline of these particular female hormones, which ultimately affects the entire endocrine system. ii. th e u niversal tr uth : ag ing WWW.CENEGENICS.COM 3 II. the Universal truth: Aging Aromatization potentially worsens the already existing hormone imbalance. Too much estrogen and not enough testosterone can increase risk of a heart attack or stroke. High levels of estrogen also have been implicated as a cause of benign prostate hyperplasia (noncancerous enlargement of prostate) and even prostate cancer. This menopausal process takes approximately three to five years. The early (transitional) phase is referred to as the climacteric, also known as perimenopause. In her mid-30s, a woman’s hormone balance begins to shift. When it occurs and the level of that imbalance depend on a range of factors: heredity, age menses began, lifestyle, nutrition, stress, adrenal hormones, exercise and more. You might not make the connection and blame the symptoms on a hectic lifestyle. Without the appropriate tests, it’s possible to wind up with the wrong treatment and symptoms becoming worse. That’s precisely why Cenegenics embraces a comprehensive evaluation, with periodic diagnostics. Your body is in a continual state of change, so your needs alter from time to time. Hormonal optimization therapy, hormone-regulating nutrition, nutraceuticals and sound exercise in the right combination address your personal health situation. http://WWW.CENEGENICS.COM
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