Managing Menopause and Perimenopause - What You Need To Know And Understand About The Change

In this video below I share helpful tips and insights on managing menopause, perimenopause, and post menopause. Together these are called your menopausal years and can include up to 15 years of perimenopause leading into menopause, followed by 3-5 years of postmenopause. Each of these phases of a woman's life is characterized by volatile hormonal fluctuations during which time women can experience uncomfortable symptoms like hot flashes, night sweats, depression, anxiety, fatigue, aching joints, heart palpitations, dry, itching skin, and more. These symptoms can be very stressful and even overwhelming for so many women, and they often don’t know where to turn for help because this subject is just not openly discussed or is simply dismissed. Well, in my video below, I share what I have learned through my journey and experience with perimenopause, menopause, and post menopause, including hours and hours of research into this dynamic life-changing process. I share it all with you to help you easily learn and understand from someone who is your peer, how you can embrace this time of your life naturally, and aid your body through this transition in a healthy way. You are not alone and this informative and educational video will help you realize that and know what you can expect during your menopausal years. I provide you with natural remedies and tips that will be your allies of support during this transitional time to help you navigate and embrace this transformational change, and I share the facts and risks of taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) so you can make an educated and informed decision about what’s best for you and your health. This video will help empower you with the confidence that you are beautiful, vital, and in control of your health, now and in the future. Women have unique and very individual needs both emotionally and physically during perimenopause, menopause, and postmenopause, and I want to help you know what to expect and what you and your body needs so you can have a happy and healthy life. The more you know, the better you will feel and the easier you can get through this monumental change. Lots of love, xoLinda

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Daylight Savings Time Ends - HURRAY for Better Sleep!

Last night the clocks went back one hour heralding the end of Daylight Savings time. I say HURRAY! The idea behind Daylight Savings Time in the summer months is that we shift the number of daylight hours into the evening, so if the sun normally sets at 7 pm, with Daylight Saving Time, it will set at 8pm instead. Supposedly this will mean we will spend less time with the lights on in our homes at night thus saving electricity. Studies have been done to evaluate the savings and they have come up empty. Daylight Savings Time also means that you’re less likely to sleep through the daylight hours in the morning, since daylight will arrive earlier as well. That can mean daylight can arrive as early as 4:15am in my area of the U.S. interrupting important melatonin production. It has been well studied by sleep experts that Daylight Savings Time has a negative effect on the human body and results in more accidents and deaths each year when we spring forward and lose an hour of sleep. The U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration analyzed 21 years of fatal crash data and found a small, but significant, increase in road deaths on the Monday after the clock shift in the spring. The number of deadly accidents jumped to an average of 83.5 on the spring-forward Monday compared with an average of 78.2 on a typical Monday. And it seems it’s not just car accidents. Evidence has also shown an increase in incidences of workplace injuries, heart attacks, and strokes in the days after we spring forward. When we shift clocks forward one hour in the spring, many of us will lose that hour of sleep. In the days after daylight saving time starts, our biological clocks are a bit off. It’s like the whole country gets jet lag, and although an hour may not sound like a big change, human beings are very sensitive animals and small disruptions in our sleep patterns can alter our health, including hormones, insulin, adrenaline, and brain function. When our biological clocks are off, everything about us can be out of sync. Personally, it takes me several weeks to acclimate to the new time change, but I experience almost no acclimation to falling back out of Daylight Savings Time. In fact I feel an innate sense of restoration when we fall back. So I welcome the end to Daylight Savings Time and the return to normal time, and I hope that one day the rest of the United States will follow Arizona, Hawaii, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands which are the U.S. territories that do not participate in Daylight Savings Time. 

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