PreMenopause/Menopause

What is Pre-Menopause

PreMenopause, according to Dr. John Lee who pioneered the research on natural progesterone cream, can occur in a women 15-20 years prior to menopause. PreMenopause is caused by a lack of progesterone in a women’s body. What is the cause…lack of ovulation and Estrogen Dominance, which caused, by all the chemicals in the environment that mimic our own estrogen. As Dr. John Lee states, "It is a phenomenon that all women know about but few have a name for." Don’t we women know that to be true! Here are some signs and symptoms of PreMenopause, and remember, it is common to experience them 15-20 years prior to menopause…which brings us to the age of 30-35 to begin experiencing the symptoms:

Decreased Sex Drive
Irregular Periods
Heavy Periods
Bloating
Fluid Retention
Breast swelling and tenderness
Fibrocystic Breast Disease
Headaches
Mood Swings
Weight gain in the abdomen and hips
Hair Loss on the scalp/Hair growth on the chin/toes….everywhere else it shouldn’t be
Thyroid abnormalities (cold hands and feet, sluggish metabolism, and fatigue
Foggy Thinking
Memory Loss
Insomnia
Fibroids
PMS
Infertility
Cancer
Difficulty conceiving
Endometriosis
Irritability
Depression

How Common is Pre-Menopause

The majority of women today between the ages of thirty and fifty have some form of pre-menopause symptoms. Most conventional medical professionals believe that to treat pre-menopause syndrome (low progesterone) you must do so with psychiatric prescriptions, synthetic hormones, or even surgery. With all the research that has been done with natural progesterone, we now know, that we have much safer options available to us that do not include the risks associated with surgery, psychiatric prescriptions, or synthetic hormones.

What is menopause?

Menopause is the end of menstruation. The word comes from the Greek mens, meaning monthly, and pausis, meaning cessation. Menopause is part of a woman's natural aging process when her ovaries produce lower levels of the hormones estrogen and progesterone and when she is no longer able to become pregnant.

Unlike a woman’s first menstruation, which starts on a single day, the changes leading up to menopause happen over several years. The average age for menopause is 52. But menopause commonly happens anytime between the ages of 42 and 56.

A woman can say she has begun her menopause when she has not had a period for a full year.

Click here for a PDF with a list of 50 Symptoms indicative of Menopause

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