Want a better menopause than your mom had? Here’s a simple, easy tasty tip: start eating food and herbs that work with your body’s estrogen production now! Phytoestrogenic food and herbs help your body avoid dramatic crashes in estrogen levels that have been linked to more intense hot flashes and other menopause symptoms. Every day eat herbs and foods that can ease the effects of your ovaries’ irregular declining estrogen production during your menopause transition years.
Millions of American women suffer from hot flashes during menopause, but not many realize that diet can have a lot to do with it. During menopause, women are undergoing hormonal changes that can disrupt sleep, stress them out and make them tired, three things also associated with weight gain.
Willpower goes down the tube when people are stressed and they will not do all the good things they should do be doing like eating properly and exercising.
It all can add up to the muffin top effect: that shift of weight to the abdomen that makes clothes fit poorly, if at all, and that stresses out a woman every time she gets dressed.
Everyone does not want to take hormones as they are going through menopause. Many people do not want to be on a handful of supplements for that matter. I have developed suggestions to help women incorporate recipes into their diet, that contain hormone and mood balancing properties.
Some examples:
*Flaxseeds are estrogenic, and contain essential fatty acids that are good for skin.
*Horny goat promotes healthy libido.
*Lavender is a calming, relaxing herb.
*Snack bars fortified with soy phytochemicals for hot flashes in menopausal women
There are two main types of phytoestrogens – and some foods have both: (1) isoflavones (cooked beans (e.g. yellow split peas, black turtle beans, red kidney beans and red lentils), whole grains, leafy greens (cooked parsley, nettle, cabbage, broccoli, kale, mustard greens, collards, lamb’s quarters, seaweeds and rhubarb stalks, tofu) and (2) lignans (flaxseeds and other edible seeds, whole grains, seaweed (alaria, dulse, hijiki, kelp, kombu, nori, wakame), fruit & berries)
Try to incorporate some of the following items into your diet. They are all mentioned in my upcoming e-book "Why is my Head on Fire", which includes recipes and supplement ideas for women trying to make the transition naturally. We want this to be a smooth transition.
Check back often, as I update this blog as new products emerge.
Flaxseeds
Earl grey
Spirulina
ORGANIC SPIRULINA POWDER
Damiana
damiana tea bag
Long Life Horny Goat
Triple Leaf Horny Goat tea
Hibiscus tea
The Republic of Tea, Natural Hibiscus, 36-Count
Wheatgrass
Dr Wheatgrass Supershots 5.07fl.oz. - Wheat Grass Juice in a Bottle, Invented By a Medical Doctor and Proven to Work, Pure, Concentrated and Natural - No Alcohol
Beneficial phytoestrogenic herbs include borage, evening primrose oil, licorice root, nettles, fennel, red clover, black cohosh, vitex, false unicorn root, elder, fenugreek seeds, dandelion, Honduran sarsaparilla, kudzu root, Lady’s Slipper, Liferoot, passionflower, sassafras, sweet briar, verbena. (If you decide to experiment with these herbs, do your research because some of them can promote excessive bleeding during menstruation.)
Dong Quai Tea
Dong Quai Herbal Tea 20 Bags
Other phytoestrogenic foods include apples, berries, dried beans, lentils & chickpeas, carrots, cherries, flaxseeds, garlic, grapefruit, onions, peas, dried sea vegetables, sweet potatoes, oats, pears, rice bran, sesame seeds, whole grain rice and oats, extra virgin olive oil, and many other fresh fruit and veggies.
Dried berries
Freeze dried fruit snack
Oatmeal
What oatmeal can do for you:
Organic Flax Oatmeal
Lower cholesterol
Keep you full longer and thus keep hunger pangs at bay
Help to keep your bowel clean
Stabilize blood sugar levels
Rich in E vitamin- an antioxidant that removes free radicals responsible for premature aging
Lavender is particularly effective for symptoms which may go hand-in-hand with menopause – such as stress, anxiety, muscular and rheumatic pains, digestive disorders and has even been shown to smooth out mood swings and depression. Best of all, aromatherapy is a proactive, natural and non-invasive way to enhance the body’s natural ability to balance, regulate, heal and maintain itself.
Lavender dressing
Lavender Vinaigrette with hints of Balsamic and Lime Dressing
Lavender sprigs
Culinary Lavender 4 oz.
Progesterone cream
Emerita Pro-Gest Natural Progesterone Cream, Paraben-Free, 4-Ounce Tube
