Staying fit and healthy, no matter what age you are, is a great goal and what you eat can make all the difference to your wellbeing, and your looks.
Menopause and lack of sleep go together as hormone levels fall and makes us more vulnerable to many types of illness as well as affecting our weight and how well we age.
Hot flushes and night sweats take their toll on our natural sleep pattern and that affects every aspect of our health. Natural progesterone can help restore that sleepy feeling and there are other natural aids that can help too.
The link with oestrogen and breast cancer is well established and rebalancing with bioidentical natural progesterone could be a priority, particularly for women who are overweight.
Progesterone is essential to counteract the excess oestrogen at the root of breast cancer and at menopause levels drop even more dramatically than oestrogen does.
If you are finding it hard to shift those extra pounds, there may be a simple explanation. If you know how your hormones and your lifestyle influence your body shape you can do something about it.
A clear overview of new research which could help arrest the aging process, if the research companies gave up their love affair with the pharmaceutical giants and focused on natural hormones instead.
We are constantly told that cholesterol is bad and needs controlling. But it has an important role to play in health – along with the associated benefits of progesterone.
For the majority of women this is thankfully short lived and restoring progesterone levels after birth is helpful but a surprisingly high proportion may be at risk of future depression.
You may think you are doing all the right things, but are you really making the best choices? And what role do your hormones play?