Hi,
I'm Tania Alfersi and I'd love to help you have a smoother journey through midlife change.
Let's look at some myths associated with this time.
If we are interested in healing perimenopause and menopause symptoms naturally and simply,
It's
Important to understand why the following seven myths are made-up stories about women's health.
Believing these common myths can keep us caught in a web of disempowerment
And searching for external fixes.
Transformative healing can occur once having seen through the
Myths we embrace the body as brilliant,
Not diseased or malfunctioning.
Let's bust those
Myths.
Myth number one,
Menopause is a hormone deficiency.
Menopause is a natural part of a
Woman's life cycle,
A rite of passage to enable a woman to evolve into a wiser elder.
Deficiency
Is not a natural part of our life cycle.
People can become deficient in many elements when they
Fall off nature's path of innate health.
It's an innocent human creation.
To be deficient is not
Part of our inherent design.
The body instinctively knows what hormones we need at different times of
Our life cycles.
No doctor needs to fix a woman journeying through natural menopause with hormones
Because she is not broken.
Myth number two,
Women never used to live beyond menopause.
It's unfortunate that even celebrity doctors can't understand the law of averages.
Through the ages,
Average life expectancy was low because child mortality was horrifically high.
Women or men didn't used to reach the age of 40 and suddenly drop dead as it's all too often
Claimed in the media.
Even today,
We can see in contemporary hunter-gatherer societies that once
A girl makes it through to adulthood,
She has a good chance of living decades beyond menopause.
This has always been the case,
Which is why when menopausal women appear in literature from the
Last two millennia,
They are never described as rare freaks of nature.
Myth number three,
Hormone therapy offers the most effective relief for over 30 menopause symptoms.
How peculiar that a drop in female hormones experienced by all menopausal women can
Supposedly be responsible for such a wide range of symptoms in some women and far fewer symptoms
Or even none in others.
Surely,
Logic suggests that the broad experience of symptoms or lack
Of them cannot therefore be attributed to a drop in hormones.
There must be other factors at play.
Indeed,
When women engage in healthier lifestyles,
Including the most overlooked factor,
Stress reduction,
They experience significant symptom relief.
Myth number four,
Hormone therapy
Helps prevent disease.
There is not a single disease that hormone therapy can prevent in
Healthy women going through natural menopause.
No large randomized control trials have succeeded
To prove the wild disease prevention claims.
Myth number five,
Menopause causes disease.
It's nonsense to suggest that a natural part of a woman's life cycle causes disease.
Disease can
Indeed be seen more frequently in older populations,
But it is caused by lifestyle habits.
The older we get,
The more often we've repeated such habits.
Menopause offers us the opportunity
To learn how good health is created,
Because if we ignore the foundations of good health during the
Sensitive time of midlife change,
We will experience symptoms.
Our symptoms encourage us to get back on
Nature's path.
By looking at the lifestyles of populations in blue zones,
Areas in the world
Where life expectancy is high and disease rates are low,
We can see that menopause is no more
Likely to cause disease,
Just as hormone therapy is no more likely to prevent it.
Myth number six,
Our hormones are to blame for our discomfort.
It is impossible that our hormones are beyond the
Intelligence of all life.
It is also impossible to disconnect our hormones from our inner well-being.
We feel hormonal when something upstream from our hormones is out of balance.
We create imbalance in our innocence in natural menopause.
It is not created by our hormones.
Hormones have got a bad rap.
They are labeled as crazy and out of control,
And certain interests
Want us to believe that an external source of hormones will fix us.
Instead,
We should be
Looking at taking responsibility for the obvious components that create and maintain good health,
Such as nutrition,
Movement,
Low stress,
Sleep,
And time spent outdoors.
Myth number seven,
As soon as we reach menopause,
It's downhill from then on.
Many women experience a second spring
As they move beyond their reproductive years.
They find the energy and time to pursue passions
That had remained suppressed and untended to for often most of their adult lives.
Despite the
Doom and gloom of the dominant narrative,
It's quite possible that the best is yet to come.
