What are the signs of menapause?
I am in my early 40's and I have not had a menstrual period for 2 years. What is the average age of menapause?

Sorry for spelling signs of menapause this way but, lots of people seem to spell menopause "menapause" and... perhaps it does not matter... What is important is that we all understand that menapause is not a disease! It simply means that your menstrual periods will end at age for menapause, when your ovaries stop producing certain hormones. Early age for menapause can also occur if you experienced a hysterectomy and oophorectomy.

At the age for menapause and natural menapause, the body reduces the production of estrogen to 40% or 60% of what it was. At the same time, since there's no longer ovulation, the production of progesterone is reduced to almost zero. And the ovaries no longer respond to the FSH and LH prompt by ovulating. This may mean the final depletion of eggs and follicles in the female body.

Natural menapause or average age of menapause usually occurs between the ages of 45 and 55 and it becomes official when your menstrual periods have stopped for 12 consecutive months. Some women experience artificial menopause or surgically induced menopause before their 40's because they undergo a hysterectomy.

Once ovulation ceases at natural menopause, progesterone levels fall to virtually zero. And when estrogen and progesterone no longer balance each other, women will begin experiencing signs of menapause - it is important to understand that signs of menapause can begin as early as 10 to 20 years before natural menapause.

These symptoms occurring in your early 30's are called premenopause symptoms. According to Dr. John R. Lee and Dr. Norman Shealy, experiencing estrogen dominance symptoms and premenopause symptoms simply means that you have too much estrogen in your system compared to the normal amounts of progesterone needed to oppose or balance it. This is what causes estrogen dominance symptoms and menapause signs.

Also factors like stress levels, excessive caffeine and alcohol consumption, poor quality sleep, smoking, lack of exercise, poor nutrition choices, synthetic hormone replacement therapy, birth control pills, exposure to chemical and environmental toxins found in daily life contribute to early signs of menapause and hormone imbalance.

When your estrogen and progesterone hormones are balanced, you feel more alert and energetic because natural hormones or bioidentical hormones can relieve premenopause or signs of menapause. Natural progesterone cream also neutralizes the dangers of excess estrogen. And juggling family, career, age for menapause and your own needs becomes much more achievable.

Signs of menapause can also be solved by improving your diet, exercising, taking vitamins and supplements, taking omega-3, avoid drinking too much alcohol, using bioidentical natural progesterone supplementation and quit smoking cigarettes. Focus on keeping yourself healthy and the result can be your signs of menapause will improve.

Today in industrialized countries, we seem to have diets rich in fatty meats, too much sugar, refined carbohydrates, processed foods, hydrogenated oils, food additives plus pesticides affecting anyone's hormone production. According to Dr. Lee, women who exercise 4-5 times a week, avoid overeating, use natural progesterone cream and eat a diet higher in fiber with phytoestrogens and complex carbohydrates will prevent their signs of menapause.

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