Discover Your Place In Peri-Menopause
& Menopause

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We hear a lot of stories about menopause that include flushes and tiredness and sleepless nights. Recognizing the symptoms is one thing. Knowing how to deal with them is yet one of the most empowering things we can do for ourselves.

But menopause is not everything you’ll be dealing with. It has a psychological and emotional impact on everything we deal with in our daily lives. When people say and notice that something has changed about you, they probably are right.

Yet before a full-fledged menopause is settled down in our bodies, a woman will typically be going through a peri-menopause that stretches for about ten years. Peri-menopause typically begins at age 40 or 41 and has its symptoms and effects on us and the people in our lives.

The first hormone that we lose is progesterone – the loving, nurturing hormone. Be aware of irritability or intolerance that you may be feeling and recognize it as a hormonal swing.

The second hormone we start to lose is estrogen, and estrogen loss leads to the vaginal dryness that most women will experience after menopause. It’s important to recognize, if we are starting to be uncomfortable with sex and use products to prevent muscle tightening, friction and even tearing of the membranes that will lead to pain with intercourse.

How Can You Control Your Hormones Better?

1. Excess Estrogen

It’s very easy for our belly fat to get out of control. Try switching your dinners to low carb vegan for 30 days and I bet you will notice a difference. Excess estrogen stays in our guts and leafy fibrous vegetables will help remove them.

2. Stay Away from Caffeine and Alcohol

I’m a morning coffee drinker and evening wine tippler. If you tell me to stay away from both, I am not a happy camper! However, when I am feeling in extreme hormone flux, my body just tells me naturally to stay away from caffeine and alcohol. And it will make a difference. The reason is that both caffeine and alcohol interfere with how our livers process hormones so they create instability.

3. Exercise, Exercise, Exercise

When hormonal flux is getting me down, I have to exercise to help control it. And…it’s like dragging my feet up a mountain. In the past, I would bounce to the gym and now my partner has to urge me. He’s really great about making sure I exercise and since becoming peri-menopausal, I haven’t skipped a week in about 5 years. Try finding your exercise buddy who will work with you every week.

4. Sex & Intimacy

Both will generate hormones that will help balance fluctuation and mood.

As we are celebrating a National Health Week May 15-20, I decided to invite one of the prominent product formulators and a woman-entrepreneur Chia Chia Sun (pronounced chah-chah-sun).

For the past few years, Chia Chia has dedicated her time and efforts to formulate personal care, intimate care line of products that allow each woman to feel comfortable and healthy inside her body, as she crosses that 40’s line. Some amazing insights and research Chia Chia has dug out from her own personal journey.

Chia Chia will be available to us all to ask questions during this week of our AM Coffee. Get ready to ask and learn from her!

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This week in celebration of National Women’s Health Week, our friends at Damiva want to tell you all about what to expect and how to live happier and healthier lives after age 40. We’re going to explore many women’s health topics every day from Monday to Friday during our morning coffee chat. Chia Chia Sun, CEO of Damiva, wants to give you the real-life letter that you wish your mother had given you; along with the healthy dose of love that we expect from Mom.

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