1. Work out
Maybe you are already doing it, but there is a big chance that you have not been to a gym or even gone for a walk in years. In case you choose the first option, do it two or three times a week and live the experience as a time to enjoy. Just live those moments with no pressures.

2. Learn something
There are many things you can choose. It could be speaking a new language, taking yoga classes or learning about the Internet. You can even take an online course. It will amazingly increase your self-esteem and as a plus you will acquire new and useful skills.

3. Travel
If you can fly to other countries, go ahead. Have dinner in Paris or visit Egypt. You will accumulate unforgettable experiences that will change your life. If you can’t afford big trips, you can go around your own country or even, your own city. There are places in your town which you didn’t know even existed. Start researching and visit those hidden spots.

4. Go shopping
You don’t need to spend a thousand dollars on a pair of heels to feel better but pick a new painting to hang in your living room, or a portrait to put on your desk, and you will easily change the entire room’s look. Changes are always good.

5. Take care of your health
Visit one of those bioidentical hormone doctors. They will help you minimize the symptoms women experience as they grow older, and you will feel ready and fresh to achieve new goals without annoying symptoms or mood changes.

6. Read a book
It doesn’t need to be a self-esteem book or a How-To guide. Choose a title by your favorite author and get lost in one of his/her stories. You will find literature enriches your soul and spirit. You will build up new vocabulary as well.

7. Create your blog
Find out how to do it (it is incredibly easy) and start writing an online journal. Or just upload photos of your children, grandchildren, or even your pets. You can also make friends through the Internet by telling them about your experiences and letting other people leave comments.

8. Teach something
Years must have taught you something that you would like to share. Use your knowledge to make other people’s lives better. Do it as a hobby and if it turns out to be succesful, you can charge for your services. Don’t miss the chance to do what you love while you are making money.

9. Meet your friends for a meal or coffee
Maybe you’re still in touch with some of them, but there must be others whom you haven’t seen for years. Call them and organize lunch together. You will have the chance to catch up and to reconstruct your friendship.

10. Change your look
Dye or cut your hair, change your clothing style, or just do your make up differently. You will feel completely revitalized.

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1. You have the experience to make fewer mistakes.
Of course that some of us never learn, but as you may have, you should make the best use of it. It is a privilege to gain experience and accumulate stories over the years, and now is the moment to use them to your own advantage, as well as for helping others. Younger women will appreciate whatever you can tell them. Even if it doesn’t seem that they’re really listening to you, they will not forget your words.

2. You only worry about important matters.
It is true that we live in a constantly changing world, and at this point in your life you must know that there are things which are not worth worrying about. Take the chance to use this knowlege to free your life from stress. Everybody knows that money is important and that getting it is hard, and it’s not like you shouldn’t care about it. But if you take the time to get closer to your loved ones; you will find out what is really worth fretting about.

3. You can spend more time with yourself.
Letting go of time-stealing activities like working all day or taking care of children gives you plenty of time to do, well, whatever you want to do. It could be reading, learning something, painting or spending a whole day at the hairdresser’s. Do what you please! Take all the spare time to do the things you have been postponing over the years and you will feel absolutely renewed.

4. You are as young as you feel.
Nowadays being 50 does not mean that your life is over at all… Not even close! There is a world of possibilities out there and it is just waiting for you to go discover it. What about an extreme make over? Or even a divorce, if you are not happy? Unlock yourself and do what you never thought you could do. It is never, ever, too late.

5. You are interested in taking care of yourself.
It could be entirely about health, or even about looks. Nobody is going to take better care of you than yourself and, luckily, there are many things that you can do to feel (but most importantly be) better. From bioidentical hormone therapy to ethics therapy, and many, many others. Your mind and body are the most precious things you own and the responsability of keeping them in top condition is only yours. Don’t feel bad when you have real possibilities of feeling great.

6. You appreciate little things.
This detail may seem quite corny but if you make a pause and think about it, you will see that we work all our lives to get big, important things; they may make us happy to some extent but, in fact, the only things that survive through time and make you a better woman, are details. You are in a position of appreciating the details, and this makes your life better everyday.

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Natural and healthy anti-aging advice, without the need of cosmetic surgery.

The first and one of the big keys is to stop smoking; the damage might not be completely reversible, but it will surely keep it from getting worse. Try to accompany this step with multi-vitamins and nutrtients in your meals; the change will be soon noticeable in your skin.

Step two is protecting your skin from the sun. It’s highly reccommended that you use sunblock and a hydrating moisturizer so you prevent the process in which wrinkles turn the skin rough and leathery, causing also the appearance of premature age spots. If you’re going for a sunscreen, you’d better aim for one with a high FPS, if possible above 25; and avoid exposing yourself from midday to 3pm because it’s the time the UVA and UVB rays are strongest and cause more serious skin damage.

My third tip is eating an antioxidant-rich diet, so that the radicals that endanger skin’s structure work. You can find these antioxidant vitamins, minerals, and carotenoids in fresh vegetables, fruit, and whole grains. Vitamines C and E help skin look younger, too.

Don’t forget to add omega3 and omega9-containing products, or additive Omega3 pills;  these are the keys to a healthy and anti-aging diet. Vitamin additives always come in handy if your diet doesn’t reach your vitamin standards.

Green tea is sometimes ignored, but it has recently been researched that a considerable daily amount of the aforementioned, can prevent the organism from all kinds of cancer and grow your heart’s resistance stronger.

When done propperly, moisture and exfoliation work to hydrate and protect the skin from free radical damage. I recommend you follow a skin care routine, consisting of exfoliation and application of hydrating moisture afterwards.

Exercising is a key part of anti-aging; it provides you with greater amounts of energy, reduces your anxiety, makes you stronger, helps lower high blood pressure, and helps you lose weight, shaping your body.

Bio identical hormone replacement can be considered as well, since it is a very natural way of acquiring  the hormones you can’t produce by yourself, thus, helping you. This therapy is considered highly better than that consisting of synthetic hormones, since bio identical ones are natural and easier for the body to metabolize. Make sure you talk to your doctor about these treatments; he will surely say it’s a great way to go.

Trying to manage the amount of stress you go through each day is another way to fight aging. While you stress, your body produces certain hormones that accelerate the aging process, which is quite the opposite of what you’re trying to achieve. So, trying to stay as stress free as possible is another way to delay aging.

Staying hydrated is one of the most important tips, not just for anti-aging purposes. The goal you have to reach is drinking two litres of water as a minimum to keep your system flowing and eliminate all body toxins.

I hope these tips are useful, and if you start following them, you’re seriously going to notice the improvement in your health.

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The generation of women reaching menopause at this time is much more health-driven than its predecessors. They feel younger and live another life as well, with careers and jobs, plus motherhood. So you do not miss anything in your life because you’ve reached this stage, I’ve made this list of tips that will help you go through menopause with greater ease than previous generations of women.

There’s no reason to hide the pain or suffering if you can avoid it. That’s why, you have the chance to pick up a treatment that will improve your quality of life noticeably, which is bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, a completely natural and non-invassive approach. Don’t forget to mention it to your doctor so he will derive you to a specialist.

Whether or not you decide to go the treatment route, there’s something you can’t miss, which is dieting. You might even have to change your eating habits, since your organism and the way it functions is changing, and so will your metabolism. Actually, the loss of estrogen causes anxiety and apetite to increase. It’s highly recommended not to have large amounts of food for dinner, since digestion will be forced and you will be forcing your digestive system.

Try to find workout or exercise routines that appeal to you; this will not only help you stay fit, but will also help you with your heart rate and performance. Your bones will also become stronger, and you don’t have to do everything every day, just a routine that you enjoy and helps you.

Keeping up skin health is also very important since certain vitamins and minerals are not produced by the body any longer. A way to aid your skin is exfoliating, keeping it always hydrated and using supplement creams that will help it regain flexibility, texture, and strength. Fiber-based foods are really helpful for your skin as well.

Heart and mind have to stay safe and strong; a lot of cardiovascular diseases are related closely to estrogen and the lack of it, which your body suffers as you face menopause. Your stress also plays a big role in these kinds of problems, since it tends to threaten your cardiovascular health, as well. Stress can also be the cause of some forgetfulness that you might have; it’s possibly not just aging, but stress also makes your mind worry too much about one thing, and this will most likely lead you to forget other things. Omega3 and Ginkgo Biloba are supplements you can take to try keep yourself sharp.

At this stage in life your metabolism changes, that’s why you have to keep in mind all kinds of health issues that might be triggered in you, such as chronic or genetic tendencies.

Please do not underestimate your symptoms and contact your doctor, there’s no need to endure pain while you can do something about it and even improve your quality of life as well.

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The Last Period. Period.
I bet you $1,000 you don’t know what menopause is.

No, really.

You read a lot about menopause and perimenopause, sure; and probably began experiencing symptoms several months ago. And no doubt you talked a lot with other women, and got a hint about a certain bioidentical hormone doctor in Aspen or whatever out there (“a bio what??”). Yet, I still believe you don’t know the meaning of the term menopause and that nobody ever explained to you why your clothes seem to shrink in the wardrobe.

Menopause IS NOT:

•    the stage following your last period
•    a condition after a whole year without menstruation
•    a hormone deficiency
•    a period characterized by hot flashes and mood swings

So, what is menopause? Give up?

From Menarche to “Flasharche”
Menopause is a woman’s last period. Period.

On average, this occurs when a woman celebrates her 51st birthday. However, to determine when the menopause happened, she has to experience no periods during 12 consecutive months. In other words, she realizes she had her menopause a year later.

The word has a Greek origin (menos, month; pausis, cessation) by contrast to the first menstruation, the menarche (also from Greek: arkhe, beginning).

Many changes happen in the body around the crucial day of the last period. Essentially, your body considers that your reproductive days are no longer necessary but fat is welcome.

One or two years before such day, your body enters the perimenopause stage (peri, prefix for about, around or surrounding), also known as the climacteric phase. That’s when hot flashes begin.

Then, a year after the menopause day, you enter the post-menopause phase—those who say there’s no such a state as a post-menopause are, from an etymological viewpoint, wrong—. Since menopause refers to a specific day not a prolonged condition, a post-menopause time obviously follows.

From Flashes to Fat
Fat cells produce and store a hormone, estrone, a form of estrogen. The ovaries produce another variety of estrogen, estradiol. This hormone decreases at a dramatic rate around menopause, because the ovaries ignore another hormone that carries orders to produce estradiol. Hormones serve as mailmen, and affect almost every cell in the body when delivering or failing to deliver the information.

Some organs, however, are more receptive than others to certain hormones, much in the same way as your ears perceive sounds but ignore smells. When the ovaries stop obeying orders, your body cells crave estrogen. And where can they find it? Fat cells, of course! Your belly and hips stored another kind of estrogen, but estrogen at least.

To state it in other words, let’s say that your body needs fat now. Thus, you feel hungry; ergo, you eat. The larger the fat cells, the more estrogen they can produce and store.

To Lose Weight, Eat more often
If you wish to prevent weight gain, eat more often. Yes, more often. Eat small meals and give the body what it needs: milk, cereals, fruits and vegetables. At all costs, avoid dieting or starving; your body will react to protect its fat cells to put a stop to estrogen decreases… storing more fat.

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“There’s no woman out there
with a Prozac deficiency.”
—Suzanne Somers

At 60, says former Three’s Company star Suzanne Somers, “you can choose fifty old medicines—if that´s what you want, fine, take all your pharmaceutical drugs and end up in a nursing home— or… you can jump on this fast-moving trend”.

What trend is she talking about? Watch this 10 min Metacafe video featuring her sharing with us how a bio identical hormone therapy relieved her from those awful symptoms, you know what I mean. She has something to say about a crossroad we are witnessing these days, when we can live longer and still enjoy our menopause (and regain sexual drive, too!).

Suzanne Somers Speaks About Bio-Identical Hormones at the 15th A4M Conference in Las Vegas

She addressed that lecture at the 15th American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M) Annual Congress held in Las Vegas in 2007. (1)
A couple of years before this conference, Somers had released her book “The Sexy Years: Discover the Natural Hormone Connection: The Secret to Fabulous Sex, Great Health and Vitality, for Women and Men”. Two years later, the sequel “Ageless: The Naked Truth about Bioidentical Hormones” followed.

In Ageless, Somers mentions the now famous Women’s Health Initiative Study, an experiment in which doctors expected decreases in cancer in women who were prescribed synthetic hormones. (2) To their surprise, doctors discovered shocking outcomes, such as 26% more breast cancer and 2,100 % more cases of lung blood clots.

“Yes, that is correct”, writes Somers, to assure you it wasn’t a typo. And she adds:
“So much for synthetic hormones! […] Those of us who were on the original birth control pills for any length of time were actually on synthetic hormones. Any wonder why women of our generation are under siege from an epidemic of breast and ovarian cancers? There is a link.”
Somers endured a cancer herself and recovered. Another excerpt from Ageless about her bio identical hormone therapy:

“I approached my cancer through balanced bioidentical hormone replacement and complemented this replacement with Iscador. (3)

“I believe this was the best decision of my life.
“[…] My health has never been better. I have not had so much as a cold during this time; upon my last checkup, my immune system was so high that my doctor was ecstatic. He said he had never seen an immune system this strong in any of his adult patients.”

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(1) Note: according to its website, the A4M seeks the dissemination of info “concerning innovative science and research as well as treatment modalities designed to prolong the human lifespan”.
(2) The study included 162,000 women, some of whom where prescribed estrogen or progestin and others a placebo. Estrogen was synthesized from horse urine. The experiment was terminated because of the dangerous side-effects observed in an unexpected number of women, mostly related to blood clots.
(3) Iscador: extract of mistletoe, used to treat certain cancers.