Showing posts with label menopause. Show all posts
Showing posts with label menopause. Show all posts

7/30/2009

Properties of isoflavones


The isoflavones are a group of compounds found in some plants but above all especially in soybeans (100 g containing 300 mg of soy isoflavones while other legumes contain only 5 mg).

The properties are primarily isoflavones phytoestrogens (contains natural estrogen) and antioxidants, and thus is used to combat the symptoms of menopause, estrogen replacement joints. It also has a powerful antioxidant. Specialists recommend especially to improve vaginal lubrication and get better quality sex.

7/16/2009

Benefits of alcohol in menopause


Drink moderately reduces cardiac risk.
For twelve years, a major study conducted in Germany based on 85,000 women found that moderate alcohol consumption reduces the risk of fatal cardiac disease. In fact, consuming between 1.5 and 29.9 grams of alcohol per day, get these benefits.

But the benefits increase even more when I consume this product is a menopausal woman, with one or more cardiovascular risk factors (such as high cholesterol or family history, for example). A news to lift the cups and toast. But in moderation.

7/10/2008

Milk is good for health

The spectacular growth in the consumption of this food has been endorsed by their nutritional properties.
It has no cholesterol, is rich in vegetable protein and minerals-complementary and equivalent to the milk-and is generous in fotestrógenos.
These substances are well known but no activity that could reduce the risks of cardiovascular and type own signs of menopause.

Moreover, the soymilk is a suitable substitute for people with lactose intolerance, as this has no sugar.

6/04/2008

Some questions about sex

Here are the answers to many common questions about sex.

-- Does the alcohol in high doses difficult sexual activity?
Yes. With a glass over, begins the loss of libido, difficulties to reach orgasm, and in men erection problems.

-- Will the loss of virginity is always painful?
No. Even if the hymen is not very elastic or broken, pain and bleeding are very strange.

-- A man can ejaculate without erection?
Yes, because these are two independent functions, but not something usual, and sexologists consider this type of orgasm as a sign of a serious inhibition of erection.

-- Is it possible for small breasts are more sensitive than large?
No. Everything depends on the sensitivity of women and the caresses it receives.

-- Does the lack of erection, it means lack of desire to partner?
No. The reasons for an event like this may be due to physiological problems generated by an impotence or a bad timing of the relationship.

-- All women have a potential multiorgásmico?
Yes. Unlike men, women do not have a refractory period after orgasm.

-- Does the smell plays an important role in sexual intercourse?
Yes. Each body has a special smell that attracts or repels your partner.

-- Make love always in the same position is a symptom of impoverished?
No. It may also mean a great performance by the sexual partner, who has found the position that it is more appropriate.

-- Is it possible to strengthen the vagina exercise?
Yes. They can be called Kegel exercises, which involve contracting muscles as if he wanted to make a urination.

-- All women have a point G?
No. This is an area filled with folds in front of the vagina described in 1950 by an American gynecologist called Grafenberger. While it is true that some women in the stimulation of this area in particular and blood flow that occurs cause or favor orgasm, it must be remembered that most women die undiscovered point G.

-- Does menopause can increase female libido?
Yes. It is only due to psychological factors, such as to liberate women from the concerns of contraception.
-- Some medicines reduce libido?
Yes. This is evident especially when the medicines are consumed acting on the vigil, sleep, anxiety or hormonal balance.

5/30/2008

Confronting to 40 without dying in the attempt

Upon reaching maturity, the person in the first instance acquires its full balance. Already established labour, as well as the emotional sphere, and the major identity crisis have been as a memory of youth. This balance often is only a mirage ...

In the latter case, there is a major crisis. Not all people who suffer from this crisis are the same age. Men tend to suffer rather than women, and in them many times, is directly related to the onset of menopause, feared in most cases simply by lack of information.

With the arrival of middle age, are often problematic nature of work, and then consequently economic, that affect the psychological state of individuals. These problems are generated by the volatility of current employment plans and offer real work.

It poses a problem of existentialism, tending to make an overview of what has hitherto been our life, and seek to carry out those dreams of youth unrealized. We look at life from a critical perspective, and impractical to confront reality with dreams left behind unresolved, try, anxious and impulsive, seeking a solution that in many cases we produce an identity crisis.

Those who are unable to manage and resolve this crisis stage, suffered increased levels of stress and anxiety, and therefore are more awaiting what they lack than what they have.

This makes us face up to life in three ways, either an extreme feeling self-pity for being unable to find such a solution; getting a sharp and intense hyperactivity to achieve all that we missed, or (and this itself is the best solution to confront the crisis) we make a sincere self-criticism, but above all constructive, objectively weighing everything we have achieved and makes us happy, clashes with what they crave and they really believe it can bring benefits to our lives. Enfrentar always from criticism, weigh the pros and cons and make a reasoned decision, not just thinking of us, but also one that may affect our decisions.

In conclusion, tackling the 40 with optimism. Life is for living and each era has its good and bad moments, focus on the good and learn to querernos with 100 years when we had 25.

5/22/2008

The buccal health during the menopause

During the years peromenopáusicos and menopausal, the alterations in the quantity and classes of sexual hormones, increase in the woman the risk of appearance of illnesses autoinmunes, I eat the rheumatoid arthritis for example; and cardiovascular; accompanied with important xerostomía, that is to say, mouth dryness.

The oral primary complications of the dryness in the mouth, are the susceptibility to the dental cavity and the infection for candid, as long as the presence of the rheumatoid factor is chronically associated with gums aflame and loss of higher normal alveolar bone.

Other changes in the oral cavity that you/they are habitually informed in women that are in this stage, include oral (either pain and also sensation of ardor) uneasiness; and an altered perception of the flavor.

The changes in the oral mucosa can vary from a pale atrophic appearance to a well-known box as menopausal gingivoestomatitis, the one that are characterized to affect to the gums, leaving them completely dry and also brillosas that bleed very easily; besides showing up a decrease of the salivary flow in presence of the illness.

The osteoporosis is a common box in the grown-ups that it affect from a disproportionate way to the women. The bony loss generalized by the systemic osteoporosis can tornar to the susceptible teeth to accelerated resorption of the alveolar bone and chronic periodontitis.

Although the osteoporosis is not a strictly etiologic factor in the periodontitis, it can affect the severity of the illness in periodontitis preexistentes.

4/27/2008

Diet in the menopause

With the beginning of the menopause, they happen a series of hormone changes accompanied by a decrease of the basal metabolism. Therefore, you are fundamental to moderate the intake to maintain the weight, but not taking care of the quality of the foods and the quantities of nutritious energy, as vitamins and minerals.

In this stage it is necessary to continue treating the osteoporosis, as well as to protect the cardiovascular system. Also, you are to prevent and to fix the oxidative damage and the ageing, as well as the chronic illnesses, as the arterial hypertension, coronary ailments, diabetes, among other.

For you are necessary to maintain a healthy weight, this depends on the percent of corporal fat and of the localization of the fat deposits. The obesity localized in the abdominal area, brings a risk bigger than developing illnesses of the metabolism. The pointer of corporal (IMC) mass and the measurement of the relationship waist-hip, they constitute precise methods to estimate the distribution of the fat and the body weight. Also, you are to implement the planning of the physical activity, starting a programa of regular exercise, as walking, to jog, to dance, etc.

We propose you some rules to have a healthy nutrition in this stage:

- To consume the necessary calories: to calculate some 25 calories for kilo of weight ideal for a woman that work; if you go to the gym 3 times per week, they will be 30 calories.

- To include variety of foods daily: vegetables, fruits, cereals, milky, among other.

- To reduce the usage of animal fats.

- To moderate the usage of foods with high content of sodium: cold cuts, canned, common cheeses, smoky flesh.

- To consume rich foods in fiber: cereals, vegetables, fresh vegetables and fruits.

- To limit the alcohol consumption.

- To moderate the usage of caffeine: not more than 3 cups of coffee a day.

- To avoid the diets with a high content in proteins.

Certainly that a series of important supplements also exists to keep in mind to increase in this alimentary plan:

- Calcium: the recommendations to cover are high (1300 mg / day). For we should choose it milky fortified with calcium and cheeses meager semiduros.

- Soy: the protein of the soy attenuates the bony loss of the lumbar spine in the woman perimenopáusica. Your isoflavonas (substances similar to the estrogens) content prevents the nuisances of the hormonal decrease characteristic of the menopause.
- Folic acid, vitamins B6 and B12: the usage of 5 fruits or vegetables per day should be enough to contribute the vitamin sufficient quantities B6 and folate. As for the folic acid we find it for example in the orange juice, clever cereals to consume (fortified), asparagus, lettuce, broccoli, spinach and vegetables. The vitamin B6 in red flesh, fortified foods, bananas, milk, tuna, chicken and potato. And lastly, the vitamin B12 finds it in flesh and fortified cereals.

- Anti-oxidants: they are substances that act against the cellular ageing, among them minerals (selenium, zinc, copper and manganese); vitamin E; vitamin C; carotenes and flavonoides.

12/20/2007

Snores My husband snores! What do I make?

To begin with this topic, we should understand what it is that so annoying sound that it sometimes perturbs us during the night, undoubtedly if oneself makes it, I don't know he/she gives account.

The pathologic snore is the sound taken place by the vibration of the structures of the pharynx, for the passage of air during the respiration. During the dream the structures of the throat relax themselves, they become flabby; when we make enter the air those structures they vibrate and the famous snore takes place. To be considered pathologic debit side to be intense and to happen with a frequency of five or more days per week, that which is already reflecting a breathing difficulty.

Of the 20 to 25% of the men bigger than 45 years, one of each four, is snorer. The snorers have a bigger prevalence of cardiovascular illnesses and they are the substrate that can evolve to the following step that is the obstructive apnea of the dream. Besides the personal repercussions that can have as for a bigger prevalence of the cardiovascular illness, they also have social repercussions for the dysfunction that causes those who cohabit with the snorer, what ends up creating a problem of social margination. The appearance of a snore in the women is much pettier until the menopause in that the frequency equalizes that of the men.

There are several methods to be about braking this illness that mainly makes sick many wives. One of them is the medical method, in the one which the professional, it will be informed on the mode of life of the patient snorer, following their flaws closely, customs and other. You always begins being about taking the weight from the patient to a normal weight according to their height, since the overweight is one of the factors that produce the act of snoring. They should also be deleted the alcohol, the sedative ones and also the relaxants. Another of the suggestions, is to appeal to a mechanical method, where the tongue is arranged toward before so that it doesn't clog up the step of the air and this way to help to that the respiration is highly nasal, logically it is elementary to go to a nasal mask to increase the results of this treatment. For more effectiveness than it denotes this treatment class, to the so complex and honestly annoying being, it is very resisted when the election by the snorer. It is completely possible to increase the surgical treatment to stop the snore, provided this is derived of physiologic dysfunctions, so much in the respiratory system as factors that you/they can help this dysfunction.

If you are very afraid and your husband you rehúsa to be by means of anyone of these methods so that he/she stops to snore and you can sleep well, it crosses their slippers under the bed. This is behind an utilized sympathy from centuries, and very actual!

12/07/2007

The climaterio in the woman and in the man

Generally, around the 45 years he/she extinguishes the genital feature in the woman, entering in a stage, the menopause, in which the menstruation ceases and that it is the central phenomenon of a series of signs and glandular, circulatory, nervous and psychic origin symptoms that you/they appear concomitantly and that they draw the box that we know with the climaterio name in the woman This it in fact marks the beginning of the organic involución that will continue inexorably until the death.

The suspension of the menstruation sometimes happens without premonitory signs, but more frequently he/she accompanies of diverse symptoms that constitute the clinical habitual box. The hypertension and the hot flashes, clerks of the circulatory apparatus, are the most attractive. At the beginning, at night the woman notes waves of heat especially, in the face, then these hot flashes become more frequent and they appear at any hour of the day. This symptomatology is accentuated in the cases in that injuries of the circulatory apparatus coexist.

As for the sexual appetite, he/she increases in the premenopausia, to leave extinguishing later on.

A predisposition appears to the artrosis that he/she comes favored by the impoverishment in calcium of the bones and drying of the meniscus and capsule articulares. The content in uric acid in the blood spreads also to increase. It becomes patent, in general, the trend to put on weight and in certain cases, it is met to a true lipomatosis.

In many cases, the not very accused symptomatology of the menopause doesn't demand treatment. When on the contrary, the manifestations of the climaterio are notorious, a medical treatment can be set up that leans on especially in the share of the estrogens that although they don't provide a briefer evolution of the phase climatérica, yes they allow a softer adaptation to the same one.

With the hormonal therapy, some women acquire a younger aspect. In and of itself, it is frequent that in occasions the recipe of hormones is not requested to merely prophylactical title of the dysfunctions of the menopause, and maybe with the hope of to recover the youth's charms and to retard the ageing. The clinical actual observations demonstrate that the rejuvenecimiento is only superficial, cutaneous texture and subjective well-being, continuing the aging process of the remainder of the organs and tissues of the organism.

The masculine climaterio is much less important that the feminine one and he/she appears more belatedly than in the woman, generally around the 60 years and it stops most of the men it lapses without a special symptomatology of accompaniment of its sexual declination. Shortcomings appear so much in the sexual plan that you/they become more and more frequent, with their habitual couple as, if it has been attempted, with other women.

Discounting that these sexual deficiencies are due to chronic intoxications; as tobacco plant, coffee, alcohol, etc; to old well-known illnesses or not for the patient; among other, it is necessary to appraise the state of presenescencia of the patient.

The treatment is based on improving the general state of the organism, with rest, relaxation, massage, climatic cures. Among the medicines the sedatives have been assayed, tranquilizers, the tonics as the fosforuro of calcium. The vitaminoterapia, especially the vitamins A, C, AND and complex B, seems quite beneficial and without hazard. The queen bee jelly of bees enjoys in certain sectors of great predicament.

11/29/2007

The Ice cream helps the Fertility in the Woman

Adding to the diet balanced ice cream and other derived products of the milky ones with high content in fat, it can decrease the risk of an infertility type, as he/she says a study carried out in the university of Harvard.
The results of these studies will be recognized since they are of the well-known Nurses Health Study of the Ability of Public Health of Harvard and they were
published on Wednesday in the magazine Human Reproduction.
Investigators found that the women that consumed two or more products milky first floor daily in fat almost had double risk of suffering conception problems for ovulation lack compared the women that ate less than a portion of those products in the week.
In a same way, the women that ate at least a rich milky product in fat a day had a risk 27% but I get off suffering those problems.
The scientists say that the women should not reach conclusions quickly of their results, since they are based on reports of what women affirmed to have consumed during years, not in an experiment where the diets were corroborated rigorously.
"It is not to become crazy and to begin to eat ice cream three times a day", the main author, doctor Jorge Chavarro said, of Harvard.
"But it is certainly possible to have a healthy diet with consumption under of saturated fats and to consume a portion of milky products of high fatty content a day."
"A good dose of scepticism is good for people",
but that anything when the results are so difficult of believing, the doctor Patrick Remington said.
After everything, the Nurses Health Study discovered the hormones of the menopause years ago they could impede the heart wrongs, something that the doctors believed until a detailed study denied it later, he remembered.