7 Myths About Menopause That Hinder Natural Symptom Relief

A smoother journey through perimenopause and menopause is available to us all. Once we become aware of these seven myths that keep us in fear of the female body and searching for external “fixes,” we’ll discover that natural symptom relief is simpler than we think.

Transcript

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.

Reviews

Such a refreshing perspective from all the noise on social media

That was a really powerful and eye opening session. I loved it!

Thank you for this short and succinct myth buster talk. I don’t know why so many post-menopausal women feel the need to frighten their younger friends with “Oh, don’t you wait!” I feel reassured and comforted by what you shared. Thank you 🙏🏻

It’s great to hear counter arguments to all the ‘noise’ happening in the media and that has influenced so many of my friends. I could do with a transcript of this to have as amo when they start telling me I should be on HRT.

Thank you! That was so good to hear. I am 57 and I also feel that these are actually my best years. ❤️

I'll follow you even if I don't understand everything in English
Thank you 👍

Love this as it mirrors my beliefs in our bodies knowing exactly what to do, thank you 🌿

I loved listening to this once again, as a little reminder that I can indeed heal myself naturally. I highly recommend reading Tania's book as well. I found it refreshingly simple, yet remarkably helpful to heal my Perimenopausal symptoms. Read and reread, in case you lose your way like I did. 🙏🏼💗

Intuitively I knew all these hey points, and question the way this change is viewed by the mainstream. This was a beautiful and powerful reminder that change is natural and part of life..

I’ve been taking bio identical hormones for a couple of years now with little relief. I’ve been contemplating stopping (mostly due to the cost) but after listening to your live event today, and now this, I feel confident in my body’s ability to handle this change in my life. Thank you for the push I desperately needed!🙏🏼😇

This was great Tania❤️. Thank you so much! I’m so glad I found you today and it was just a fluke cause I happened to be home so I turned on Insight Timer while I had the Wi-Fi! 😍My mother became the most creative after menopause and I don’t know if that’s because she divorced my father and retired or if menopause made her more creative, 🦋but she started devoting her time to doing her needlepoint and now her whole house looks like an art gallery. 😍I told her she should focus on her needlepoint because she loved it, but she would never do as much when she was working. So thank you for your inspiration because I needed some and I love the part about not needing hormones because neither do teenage girls before puberty! 😅 I Look forward to your course too🙏🙏🙏😍😍😍 Have a great rest of your week and stay safe and relaxed🥰❤️

Beautiful. Such an important message. Thank you Tania for sharing wisdom 💜

I feel that the male dominated medical profession has demonised female hormone cycles and found an easy scapegoat. We are complex beings, more complex than men, and yet perfectly created for our lives. I appreciate your straight forward and succinct observation, easy to understand and affirming.

I am sharing this far and wide!! I enjoy mySPRING, for sure!!

Tania, wow what can I say.
This is really liberating stuff.
Thank you 🙏🏻❤

Thank you for counterbalancing the doom and gloom of the dominant narrative that somehow we are deficient or less than as a result of Life’s natural changes. Loving the idea of a second Springtime 🌷

Absolutely loved hearing that the best is yet to come ❤️