How Does Menopause Affect Women?
Some women as a huge physical and emotional change. Menopause can cause vaginal dryness, hot flashes, sexual dysfunction, joint pain, depression, mood changes, metabolism changes, and sleep disturbances. So to get relief from menopause try to do regular exercise. and add lots of vitamins to your diet.
A woman’s higher risk of osteoporosis is linked to menopause, a time when estrogen levels fall sharply and bone loss accelerates. The risk of heart disease and stroke also is higher for women after menopause. This is a field, however, where little else is certain. To the question most women ask at this time – “should I have hormone therapy?”- there is still no unequivocal answer. On the one hand, studies have shown that estrogen reduces bone loss and may reduce the risk of heart disease. On the other hand, questions about estrogen and breast cancer risk remain and are hotly debated. Even questions about the short-term effects of estrogen (to reduce the discomforts of menopause and delay bone loss) and the best way to take estrogen cannot be answered with certainty. In the search for answers, NIA researchers at the Institute and around the country are looking at menopause from several angles. What actually happens physiologically in the years around menopause (the “natural history” of t
