Menopause signs involve depression muscle weakness

During life women undergo the age-specific reduction of female hormones production and content in their organism. The word ‘menopause’ means only a point of time concerned with a menstrual cycle cessation. In fact, the aging of woman’s genital system is a quite extensive process.

The first deteriorations in woman’s sex sphere begin usually after 30, and especially after 35 years. The production estrogen and progesterone starts decreasing.

The next 5-10 years woman’s menstrual cycle can get upset and the estrogen level can fluctuate greatly. You can notice it by a changing feeling of enlarged and painful breasts, swollen body and irritability, when the estrogens predominate. If you notice this symptoms, you should know that they this are the first signs of menopause. They go together with a shortage of another important female sex hormone – progesterone. The effect of estrogens isn’t balanced and menstrual cycle becomes irregular.

On average climax begins at 51 years, varying within the limits of 40-60 years. The environmental factors exert minor influence on this process. Only genetic factors are responsible for the menopause coming time. The early menopause is associated with the increase of the cardiovascular diseases risk, late menopause – with a risk of breast cancer.

During 5 years after menopause woman loses the elements of the bone tissue much faster than in any other period of her life. As a result – the bones become fragile. The muscles gorw flabby and the fat rate in the organism increases. The figure changes, becoming more “manlike”. The other negative symptoms appear: it’s vagina dryness, sexual attraction decrease, dry skin, hair shedding, bad mood and efficiency reduction.

Healthy lifestyle can delay the coming of age-specific changes and smooth climax consequences. If you maintain a high level of physical activity, watch over your muscles state and eat healthy food, you weight and figure won’t change noticeably.

Mimic wrinkles can appear in the early age

Let’s speak about wrinkles. Maybe you think you’re not old yet to have them, but wrinkles are not always a physical sign of aging. Your wrinkles may be caused by various habbits that you don’t even notice. For example knitting your brow when you’re angry, screwing up the eyes when the sun shines right on your face or laughing. The way you sleep is also important. If your head is in the wrong position lying on a pillow too high that your head bends to the neck, you’ll be an owner of neck wrinkles even at the early age.

Still there are more serious factors causing wrinkles and other skin changes. Many women live with internal diseases and often don’t surmise it. The location and depth of wrinkles can tell almost everything about your health.

Cheekbones and chin

1. Flabby skin on cheekbones is an evidence of urinary bladder problems.

2. Wrinkles on cheekbones tell about diminished function of stomach and pancreas.

3. If the skin on cheekbones resembles a very thin pellicle you should check your liver.

4. Slightly swelled up chin – your kidneys work at full stretch.

5. Cross wrinkle on the chin can be a sign of stagnant effects at liver and small pelvis level.

6. If your chin often grows numb, you should visit a cardiologist and make an electrocardiogram – you may have heart problems.

Nasolabial folds

Wrinkles as a map of your health

1. Swell and changing of your nose shape, its violet hue tell about lungs and large intestine diseases.

2. Deep symmetric wrinkles on each side of the nose are an evidence of gastrointestinal tract disfunction.

3. If nasolabial folds go down to the chin, it means that you have problems with digestion – acidity gastritis, stomach ulcer or duodenal ulcer, colitis.

4. Vertical skin-deep wrinkles above the upper lip tell about gynecological disorders.

5. Vertical wrinkles from mouth corners give notice of a possible gastritis with a low secretory function and predisposition to pancreas diseases.

6. If there are a lot of small wrinkles around the mouth, then there are spasms in large intestine.

7. White edging around the mouth draws attention to heart diseases.

8. Chaps in the mouth corners tell about water-salt metabolism disturbances or even about hydronephrytis – derangement of water eduction by kidneys.

Forehead and eyes

1. If you have a lot of cross wrinkles on the bridge of the nose, than perhaps you suffer from spine diseases.

2. Horizontal wrinkles on your forehead are a widespread sign of migraines.

3. Deep vertical wrinkle between the eyebrows tells you that your organism has a shortage of oxygen and fresh air.

4. Vertical wrinkle between the eyebrows to the right points at defective liver and gall bladder, to the left – at spleen problems.

5. Vertical wrinkle in the middle of the forehead tells about stomach problems.

6. Wrinkles below the eyes in the form of a half moon are a sign of possible problems with urinary bladder.

7. Swollen upper eyelids let know about kidney problems.

8. Baggy skin below the eyes gives notice of heart diseases.

Jane Fonda - dazzling mature beauty

Nowadays the situation becomes more complicated because we have an opportunity to delay physical signs of aging, at least the most evident of them. Active exercises help us to strengthen flabby hips and belly, moisturizing milk makes our hands and feet softer. Besides, we can’t forget plastic surgery doing miracles: baggy skin below the eyes and double chin disappear as if with a wave of a magic wand. The fact is beyond any doubt – we don’t look the way our mothers did when they were forty years old. But our ability to look young at a mature age actually turns to reality the myth that woman is as good as beautiful she looks. It’s called Jane Fonda effect.

Jane Fonda has brought healthy life-style and youthful look into fashion. Watching Hollywood stars on TV we hold our breath – they roll in luxury, favoring us with a perfect smile on their everlastingly young faces. They serve as an example of how splendid one man can look at the mature age and we start thinking that we should also look well. And soon it turns to another cultural purpose. It seizes a strong hold on our minds and causes the contradictory situation, when the distinctions on the scale of age become smoothed and obliterated. But at the same time we continue to believe, that a woman with wrinkles on her face, pigment spots on hands and gray hair looses her allure and grace, at least a part of herself.

Actually, the things shouldn’t go this way. The middle of life can be the time of a great spiritual growth, because it’s time when we look in the mirror and ask: “What have I achieved and what am going to do?”

Aging makes you sad, doesn't it?

You surely do, anyhow if you still aren’t forty. Forty years is a turning point of woman’s life. When you turn forty, you start realizing that the half of your life is behind.

The fear of this number is a fear of aging. The approaching of the fortieth anniversary usually makes you feel doomed and confused, you often get into a sullen mood. But sometimes, when you finely attain this age, you understand that everything isn’t so terrible and you like being a forty years old woman. Painful waiting is behind and you breathe with relief, because you didn’t start looking different or feel different. It seems funny how you could be so afraid of this date.

But still, what are the roots of this fear? Unfortunately, the cultural imperative determines our value according to our appearance, what makes women so sensitive to the physical signs of aging. Notwithstanding that women can be great surgeons, politicians, psychiatrists and scientists, the majority of us still consider, that our value depends on how we look like and not on what we are able to do.

You're always young in the eyes of your children!

Women are inclined to equate beauty with sexuality. That is if aging makes our beauty fade, then it diminishes our sexual appeal. If we don’t look sexy enough, we can’t attract sexual partners. If we don’t have a partner, we won’t have children and won’t realize our predestination. Finally, if we don’t realize our predestination, there is no use of us. But does the value of a woman lie in her ability to give birth to a child? Certainly, it doesn’t. Still the fear of aging is rooted exactly in such rules. The aging means for a woman nothing but a “humiliating process of sexual disqualification”.

But if your kids are grown-up and your loving husband is always near to support you, is there any sense of being afraid of the aging process? If you look like a kind careful mother and wife in the eyes of your near relations? If you do, it doesn’t mean that it’s not necessarily for you to care for your face and body. It just means there’s no use to pursue a perfect ageless appearance you used to see on TV. Your value is how much light you have inside to brighten those gloomy autumn days of you life.