Herbs for Menopause

There are many natural and herbal remedies for menopause, but in order to find one that works well for you there are several factors you need to be aware of.You should look for a supplement that has formulated with the best-known combination of high-potency phytoestrogen botanicals – the main benefit of such a product is that the phytoestrogen will have a positive effect on relieving your menopausal symptoms, and supporting your body’s natural hormonal balance.

Herbal remedies can be an effective way to treat menopausal symptoms such as:

• Hot flashes
• Night Sweats
• Palpitations
• Anxiety
• Insomnia
• Mood Swings
• Vaginal Dryness
• Urinary Tract Issues
• Depression

You’ll also need to look for ingredients that have been recommended as alternatives for prescription treatments such as HRT. In a recent and well publicized study, natural herbal remedies for menopause actually performed better than estrogen in combating menopause symptoms like hot flashes, irritability, mood swings…

Natural Menopause Relief against Hormone Replacement Therapy

It is true that around 80% of women experience hot flashes and irregular menstruation however in most of these women they are the only two symptoms they experience. Some women are lucky enough to go through pre-menopause absolutely symptom free while others suffer with every symptom ever reported. Menopause really is an individual experience and no two women will ever have exactly the same set of symptoms.

Over the last several years (actually decades) the conventional approach to treating menopause symptoms like hot flashes and mood swings (to name but 2) has been the use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT).

Menopause is a natural part of a woman’s life, so why do we have to treat it as an illness or disease and take drugs to make it go away? Hormone replacement therapy (or HRT) has long been the “accepted” treatment for menopause symptoms. But during the last few years there have been many detailed studies into the effectiveness and safety of the treatment – with many qualified doctors, physicians and researchers believing that there are much better and safer natural alternative treatments for menopause.

In areas of the world where foods like soy and other estrogenic plants are part of the diet (typically the far east like China, Japan, Thailand, India etc), rates of conditions such as breast cancer (and prostate cancer in men) are significantly lower than in the western world, an menopausal symptoms are virtually non-existent.

Man made synthetic hormone replacement drugs (like HRT) are very rare in those parts of the world simply because there is no need for them.

In the western world, in places like the US, UK and Europe, the big drug companies make somewhere in the region of $8 to $10 billion every year purely through production of synthetic hormones. These same countries are experiencing a dramatic increase in the rates of breast cancer, heart attacks and stroke in menopausal women.

These remedies have become recognized forms of treatment because of its effectives, efficiency, and affordability among others. These attributes have gained the approval of countless health professionals around the world. Because of the potency of herbal and natural remedies even technological wonder O2 is trying to go green by making experiments on how to use organic materials for their next line of O2 phones. Other companies are also following this step and have began using organic and earth-friendly materials.

In his book, “What your Doctor May Not Tell You about Menopause”, Dr John Lee suggests that this increase is due to the widespread use of synthetic hormones. There are many simple and natural remedies, widely available, that can reduce and even prevent all the menopausal symptoms we are so familiar with today, and greatly reduce the risks of so many life threatening health risks associated with synthetic hormones.

One of the more widely known natural menopause supplements I know about is Menozac. It’s a botanical formulation which contains only natural herbal extracts, which have all been recommended by leading herbal experts as effective alternatives to HRT.