Menopause Symptoms The Weird Ones

Nourish your brain:

Virtually any nutrient deficiency can result in impaired mental function, including depression. To help prevent depression, health experts recommend that people should take high-potency multivitamins or mineral supplement. This will supply the brain with enough nutrients in order to keep it properly functioning and, thus, avoid some mental disorders such as depression.

Depression and anxiety will use every good power that you have against you.

Keep in mind that the most talented individual wouldn’t get anywhere without persistence.  Persistence and determination are the first steps to controlling your thoughts and feelings

About Vitamins:

Vitamin B1 is a water-soluble vitamin. The vitamin works to control sweat, urine, and solid waste. The vitamin affects the nervous system as well as your mental attitude.

It can keep your heart work properly and helps with your nervous system. If you feel fatigue, experience muscle tenderness, or have difficulty sleeping, B1 is for you. You can get this vitamin from foods also, such as oatmeal, corn breads, beans, pork chops, whole grains, milk, meat [offal], green leafy vegetables

Iron:

Low levels of iron can cause mental fatigue, so on the next visit to the doc ask for a blood test to check it.

Menopause Stages:

Perimenopuase–  3-5 yrs before your final period

Pre-menopause—-Time between starting a period to menopause. Postmenopausal— 12 consecutive months after a missed period. The blissful years after menopause.I had two years where I had one period a year.

That was fustrating because I couldn’t wait for a year to go by as I was hoping my symptoms would improve.  And YES they did!! The following year I went the 12 months  and my symptoms are alot less severe now.

Did you know that there are 10 to 20% of us that have annoying and incapacitating symptoms. I think ‘annoying’ is not a strong enough word for those of us who have  severe problems.

If they were only annoying symptoms then there wouldn’t be a problem, would there.  I wonder if people who write about severe menopause have actually had it themselves!!

Cholesterol:

When we reach menopause it is a great idea to have a complete health check. One of them is to get your cholesterol checked. I got mine done even thou I am not fat and it was a little high. I don’t need any treatment but it did make me aware of it and I have made some small changes to my diet. Like not eating chicken skin and trimming off more fat and also now using non-fat milk. Also an easy one to do is to use margarine but I check the percentage of saturated fat in it and buy the most healthy one

. There is ‘good’ and there is ‘bad’ cholesterol? Cholesterol, is like fat and cannot move around the bloodstream on its own because it does not mix with water, the major ingredient of blood.

So it hitches a ride with carriers called lipoproteins, of which there are several types – very low density lipoprotein (VLDL); low density lipoprotein (LDL); and high density lipoprotein (HDL). VLDL VLDLs are made in the liver and their job is to carry fats around the body.

Once they deliver some of their fat load, they become LDLs … LDL – the ‘bad’ cholesterol … LDLs carry the remaining cholesterol around the body. LDL has been dubbed the ‘bad’ cholesterol, and it is important to have low levels of LDL. HDL – the ‘good’ cholesterol HDLs, on the other hand, carry cholesterol back to the liver. HDL is known as the ‘good’ cholesterol, and you want to have high levels of HDL in your blood.

Heres some interesting history  info

What is Cholesterol? Cholesterol is a sterol (a combination steroid and alcohol). Cholesterol is a lipid found in the cell membranes of all tissues, and it is transported in the blood plasma of all animals. Because cholesterol is synthesized by all eukaryotes, trace amounts of cholesterol are also found in membranes of plants and fungi.

The name originates from the Greek chole- (bile) and stereos (solid), and the chemical suffix -ol for an alcohol, as researchers first identified cholesterol in solid form in gallstones by François Poulletier de la Salle in 1769.

However, it is only in 1815 that chemist Eugène Chevreul named the compound “cholesterine”.[2]Most of the cholesterol is synthesized by the body and some has dietary origin.

Cholesterol is more abundant in tissues which either synthesize more or have more abundant densely-packed membranes, for example, the liver, spinal cord and brain. It plays a central role in many biochemical processes, such as the composition of cell membranes and the synthesis of steroid hormones.

Cholesterol is insoluble in blood, but is transported in the circulatory system bound to one of the varieties of lipoprotein, spherical particles which have an exterior composed mainly of water-soluble proteins. The main types, low-density lipoprotein (LDL) and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) carry cholesterol from and to the liver.

According to the lipid hypothesis, abnormally high cholesterol levels (hypercholesterolemia) and abnormal proportions of LDL and HDL are associated with cardiovascular disease by promoting atheroma development in arteries (atherosclerosis).

This disease process leads to myocardial infarction (heart attack), stroke and peripheral vascular disease. As high LDL contributes to this process, it is termed “bad cholesterol”, while high levels of HDL (“good cholesterol”) offer a degree of protection. The balance can be redressed with exercise, a healthy diet, and sometimes medication.For more information visit:

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