Why Does Hair Loss Occur During Menopause?
Menopausal hair loss is quite common. Forty percent of women notice a significant thinning of their hair by the time they’re postmenopausal. Alopecia is the medical term for hair loss. While two-thirds of women who lose their hair in menopause notice diffuse...
Why Does Pain Increase During Menopause?
Pain during menopause is the result of increased inflammation. Caused by lower sex hormones. Your body aches. Which includes your joints, your muscles, and your bones. Even your skin becomes tender. As do your mucus membranes like your eyes, mouth, and vagina. This is...
Why Do You Get Fatigued in Menopause?
During menopause, you have many different symptoms related to your declining sex hormones, including fatigue. Fatigue can be both physical and mental exhaustion. While fatigue can occur at any age, it affects over 85% of post-menopausal women and over 46% of...
Why Does Your Skin Get So Dry During Menopause?
Dry skin during menopause is a common symptom and can start early in the perimenopausal phase. Over 36% of women over the age of 40 notice dry skin. What causes dry skin during menopause? Your skin becomes dry for a couple of different reasons....
Can Chrononutrition Be Beneficial If You’re Menopausal?
Can chrononutrition benefit menopausal women? Chrononutrition means eating by your body’s natural circadian rhythms. The goal is to consume certain nutrients at certain times of the day, in order to have the best biochemical function. In menopause, this is...
Hormonal Weight Gain: Do Hormones Cause Weight Gain?
Do hormones cause weight gain? Yes, if they are out of balance. Hormonal weight gain is a thing. We all know it; premenstrual bloating. The perimenopausal chub. The postmenopausal saggy fat. Men, as well, you have hormonal weight gain too; The Dadbod. The beer belly....
Facial Hair in Menopause: Causes, Hormones, and What Helps
Did you know that 39% of menopausal women notice a change in their facial hair? Some women are genetically disposed to have very few hair follicles on their face. Which will never develop because of the hormone changes in menopause. Yet, many women do notice that the...
What Causes Vaginal Dryness in Menopause?
Vaginal dryness is probably one of the most annoying symptoms you can experience during menopause. It can also be very subtle. It starts with the usage of artificial lubricants in perimenopause. To impossibly painful sex in postmenopause. Over half of women over the...
What to Expect from Postmenopause
Postmenopause is the last phase of the change of life, and can happen as early as your mid 40’s and as late as your early 60’s. Once it’s been two years since your very last period, you are in the postmenopausal phase. But, what can you expect from postmenopause? Your...
What is the HPA Hormonal Axis?
The Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal axis, or HPA axis is one of your body’s most vital hormonal communication networks. The HPA axis is the communication between your hypothalamus, your pituitary, and your adrenal glands. It’s a negative feedback system. So when...
Estrogen, the Hypothalamus, and Brain Function
You have estrogen receptors all over your body, as well as in your brain, and it’s well-known that your hypothalamus is rich in estrogen receptors. We tend to assume that since estrogen is a sex hormone, it only affects sexual behavior. But it actually affects...The Hormone Queen®
Deborah Maragopoulos FNP
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