Every single day you receive messages from your body, some messages are louder than others. Have you ever heard them? The only way in which your body can communicate with you is through symptoms, these are the messages from your body.
The human body spends its entire life trying to stay in balance, this is what we call homeostasis. When your body is out of balance you will experience symptoms while the body tries to re-balance itself again. If you don’t listen to the messages and the situation doesn’t change your symptoms will get worse and worse until you have no choice except to stop and make change (or you die!)
As women go through their menopause transition, they often start to experience new symptoms that appear to come out of nowhere. They haven’t come from nowhere and they are not caused by your hormones. In fact, hormones are simply messengers that pass messages between different cells in your body. Your reproductive hormones are quite protective and as these hormone levels come down you start to lose some of the protection these hormones provided you and symptoms start to be more evident. The symptoms aren’t new, they are simply more evident now that the protection offered by oestrogen and progesterone is being diminished.
Some of the common messages that occur in the menopause transition are:
There is an underlying cause for every symptom that you are experiencing, and stress generally is playing a significant role.
So what can you do?
The books that I mentioned in the podcast were
The human body spends its entire life trying to stay in balance, this is what we call homeostasis. When your body is out of balance you will experience symptoms while the body tries to re-balance itself again. If you don’t listen to the messages and the situation doesn’t change your symptoms will get worse and worse until you have no choice except to stop and make change (or you die!)
As women go through their menopause transition, they often start to experience new symptoms that appear to come out of nowhere. They haven’t come from nowhere and they are not caused by your hormones. In fact, hormones are simply messengers that pass messages between different cells in your body. Your reproductive hormones are quite protective and as these hormone levels come down you start to lose some of the protection these hormones provided you and symptoms start to be more evident. The symptoms aren’t new, they are simply more evident now that the protection offered by oestrogen and progesterone is being diminished.
Some of the common messages that occur in the menopause transition are:
- Joint pain, which is inflammation mainly caused by food choices
- Hot flushes caused by general stress and liver stress
- Weight gain caused by stress or insulin resistance (due to food choices)
There is an underlying cause for every symptom that you are experiencing, and stress generally is playing a significant role.
So what can you do?
- Stop and listen to your body rather than mask with pills.
- Don’t think that you are broken, you aren’t. Your body is simply trying to bring itself back to balance.
- Process any past trauma(s)
- Respond by eating the right food for your body, move your body the way that feels best, reduce your exposure to environmental toxins, reduce stressful situations in your life and change your mindset around ageing and menopause.
The books that I mentioned in the podcast were
- The Body Keeps Score by Bessel Van der Kolk
- The Secret Language of Your Body by Inna Segal
- You Can Heal Your life by Louise Hay
