Perimenopause Positives

There is a wealth of information out there about perimenopause & plenty of scare stories too, so I have two positives for you:

• Magnesium is used by the body to turn food into energy, maintain healthy muscle & bone & for proper nerve & brain function. Oestrogen helps your body process magnesium, so as your levels fall in perimenopause so does magnesium. Supplementation can help you sleep better for longer, stop you falling asleep during the day (in women), reduce stress & anxiety, boost mood & is crucial for creating new bone. I take & recommend ReMag - Liquid magnesium, from www.bontanicahealth.co.uk, you add it to your water bottle daily & it means you drink your water quota while topping up your levels.

• Oestrogen gives us multi-tasking super powers! We can hold down serious jobs, remember the whole family’s schedules & birthday cards for everyone that needs one, managing many tasks at the same time. As oestrogen depletes in menopause we can get overwhelmed, frustrated or angry when we realise we have been doing everything & we can no longer keep doing it! Harness the strong emotions to reshape our lives & get more helps, so its more fair & balanced. We are lucky in some ways that our female reproductive system gives us life stages, from starting periods, being able to have children if we choose, to the menopause our lives have a timeline, this helps us the be in tune with aging & our mortality. Men don’t have this and can find mid-life hard!