Tag: healthylifestyle
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Death and Menopause

Life is a journey, with its ups and downs. Last month my journey went downhill, this month I feel I’m back on an upward journey, appreciating where I have been and loving where I’m heading. This is my lesson for this moment in my life.
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Goodbye Summer

I have mentioned before that the strength of your Earth movement is what can make or break your experiences as you go through perimenopause and menopause. As your digestive system begins to work less efficiently, excess damp can invade the other elements and their meridians and slow down the movement of energy, creating imbalances that…
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Menopause, Traditional Chinese Medicine and Food

Diet needs to be based upon your symptoms, such as hot flashes, cold sweats, loss of libido, vaginal dryness, itchy skin, bad moods and depression. You may not have any of those symptoms, so why would you need a diet that is good for someone with some of those symptoms or none of those symptoms.
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Menopause Hormone Therapy & Dementia

There was a lot of hype in the English newspapers yesterday about a new study to come out of Denmark regarding menopause hormonal therapy and dementia, so I thought I would go directly to the source of this hype and read the research for myself.
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Diaphragmatic Breathing and its benefits

As you concentrate on taking deep breaths, you will start to feel more relaxed as you start to activate the autonomic nervous system (ANS).
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3 Ways to Lose Weight

Another way, which is just as detrimental to your health is to use pungent, warm and dry foods that increase sweating such as chilli. These will cause the essence to be transformed into qi, and this is then dispersed upwards and outwards from the body.
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Vaginal Dryness
So let’s deal with the symptom. There are many lubricants on the market, mostly water based ones. These come with either glycerine or no glycerine and are generally used during intercourse. The silicone based lubricants are again, just lubricants for sex, but don’t address the dryness.
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What is Menopause

Sometimes it can hit you like a rock, other times it can be so gradual that you don’t even notice until it gets so to be a big interference in your daily living, and you don’t know how to change it. This is what happened to me. I didn’t realise I had symptoms until I…
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My Journey through Menopause

So I sat up and started to take note of what my body was telling me. First thing I noticed was how the itchiness would follow the meridians. In the arms we have the meridians for the large intestine, small intestine, triple heater, heart, pericardium, lung. In my case it was following the large intestine,…
