Menopause Relief: Stress, Hot Flashes, Anxiety, Depression, Etc.

Most women don’t understand menopause or the real cause of their menopause problems. Too often, women think of menopause as a medical condition that carries with it stress, hot flashes, anxiety, depression and other difficulties. That’s not the case.

Menopause doesn’t naturally cause these problems at all. Hormone imbalance does. And hormone imbalance doesn’t come along with menopause automatically. Women were terribly misinformed about this when told by their doctors that they needed Hormone Replacement Therapy, a fictional cure for a fictional medical condition that studies revealed caused heart disease, stroke and cancer.

Women undergoing menopause who are not in hormone imbalance are free from the problems that plague women who are.

Depleted adrenal glands drive most hormone imbalance for menopausal women. But before we consider this, let’s get the menopause story straight.

If you’re a women near or in menopause-you should know this.

Perimenopause and Menopause

Perimenopause is the transitional time preceding “official” menopause. It begins around 7 years before your last period. You’re “officially” in menopause when you haven’t menstruated for one full year.

Menopause is not a single event or something that occurs suddenly. As noted, it’s a process that begins before your last period, a process that can continue for years after it. Perimenopause and menopause involve complex mindbody changes, changes driven by hormones.

Hormonal changes in menopause take place in your liver, fat cells, adrenals, pancreas, thyroid, hypothalamus and your ovaries. The physical events of menopause are initiated by your Involuntary Nervous System, by your hypothalamus and your pituitary gland, the master gland for your endocrine system.

Three things happen to your body during perimenopause

1. Your body’s production of the hormones estrogen and progesterone declines

2. You stop producing eggs

3. Your menstrual activity decreases and then stops

These perimenopause changes do indeed trigger hormonal imbalance. But this period of hormone imbalance is designed to be short-lived. And it’s actually a signal to your body to balance your hormone system through other means.

With other words, women are not hard wired to have chronic hot flashes and other menopause problems.

The Key Issue: Your Adrenal System

While other things can contribute to hormone imbalance, adrenal exhaustion is the primary cause. Consider this: When perimenopause changes throw Far Eastern women into hormone imbalance, their adrenal glands respond to restore hormone balance.  Their adrenals function like a back-up system that kicks in when perimenopause changes trigger their temporary hormone imbalance.

But, because of exhaustion, the adrenals of Western women cannot perform properly to restore their hormone balance. And so they stay stuck in a chronic state of hormone imbalance and suffer the consequences.

This not only causes hot flashes and other difficulties, but it also it sets the stage risky health problems, including heart disease. Heart disease is the #1 killer of women.

Your Adrenal Glands

Your adrenals are round 3 inch or so glands that sit atop your kidneys. They produce a large number of hormones that have a critical impact on menopause, including aldosterone, DHEA, estrogen, progesterone and pregnenelone.

Your adrenal function can become depleted and create adrenal insufficiency, burnout or exhaustions, serious problems not easily relieved. Most physicians fail to recognize adrenal depletion in women undergoing menopause despite that fact that research demonstrates that 99% of menopausal women have impaired adrenal function.

And so the real problem for 99% of Western women is that their adrenal glands fail to produce enough estrogens, progesterone and other necessary hormones in the right balance and quantities to avoid the problems that occur when their ovaries stop producing these hormones.

Stress Depletes Your Adrenals

A woman’s adrenal glands become exhausted from years of wear and tear caused by the chronic release of stress hormones. When you are chronically stressed, your adrenals are working overtime and they never get a proper rest. And so they become exhausted and lose their ability to function.

Keep these  summary points in mind as a guide:

• Your perimenopause and menopause problems are driven by hormone imbalance

• It’s very likely that your adrenal system, designed to restore hormone balance, fails to do its job properly-because it’s exhausted.

• As a result, your hormone system is chronically imbalanced

• Hormone balance is the normal condition for women

• Your hot flashes and other problems are driven by an extreme condition- hormone imbalance

• You don’t need drugs, including hormones. You need to learn how to restore your adrenals and rebalance your hormonal system, so you can return to hormone balance.

Get Busy Restoring Your Adrenal Glands.

Eat healthy, exercise and get quality sleep and rest. And learn how to turn your stress hormone faucet off and flush stress hormones out of your system.

Download “The Little Black Book of Stress Relief Secrets” on this page, while it’s still Free- it tell you what to do and why and show you.

The book will give you a deeper understanding of the dangers of stress and stress hormones along with some techniques and exercises you can start using right away to restore your adrenals and get back into hormone balance.

You’ll feel a lot better when you do.

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 Dr. Jim Manganiello is an award winning clinical health psychologist, teacher and author. He’s a longtime innovator in the areas of stress, well-being, personal growth and “inner fitness”.

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