Yoga during menopause
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when a woman’s reproductive system slows down and eventually stops around the age of 50, this is called a menopause. Each and every one of the aged females has to pass through the period of menopause.


Symptoms:
heart palpitations
dizziness
uneasiness
decreased sex drive
feeling of vomiting
sleeplessness.
Headache
excitement
worries
loss of concentration
gloom
pain in joints
dryness of the skin
a drop in your estrogens levels can cause you to lose bone mass, but you can easily counter this by exercising your bones. Before the onset of menopause, ovaries of the ladies secrete sex hormones (estrogen). During menopause this estrogen which is continuously circulating in the blood gets reduced to the significant extent. Because of the reduction in the level of estrogen the pituitary gland in the brain has to secrets more gonadotrophin hormones maintaining the balance in the body.

Reports show that, the 80 % of ladies who are approaching menopause suffer from uneasiness, lot of perspiration and unnatural bodily heat. This uneasiness and hotness is felt because the proportion of estrogen has decreased. Such uneasiness persists every time from half a minute to five minutes. This feeling of heat and perspiration results from chemical changes that take place inside the body when perspiration evaporates; one also feels trembling due to cold.

Some women easily adopt the changes with no discomfort, while others feel uncomfortable and often unwelcome sensations as their body adjusts to a new chemical balance.
Considering menopause can last for five years you will probably want to do everything you can to minimize the unpleasantness. Yoga keeps body and mind in sound health. Ladies practicing yoga practice from their middle-age period they hardly notice the onset as well as the passing away of the menopause period. Yoga can help to alleviate or eliminate many of the sometimes-uncomfortable physical and emotional feelings associated with menopause.


Yogic treatment:

asana
sarvanga asana
trikona asana
svastika asana
gomukha asana
paschimothan asana
baddha-kona aasana
janu sirsa asana
matsya asana
supported setubandha asana
shava asana
shitali pranayama
bhramari pranayama

inverted postures and pranayama are particularly helpful of hot flashes because they cool the body and fill it with energy and life force.



Diet:
include
fresh fruits and vegetables.
Milk --- maintain the level of calcium in the body.

Drink lot of water that will stabilize the effects caused by the liquid discharge out of the glands.

Reduce the intake of salt in food.
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Note:
if the effect of menopause is very serious or in greater proportion, doctors give estrogen in such conditions for hormonal replacement therapy; but such a treatment makes ladies prone to cancer of breast or uterus.



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