You can’t avoid menopause. But there are things you can do now to ease this period in future. Menopause shouldn’t become a period of a trial for you and make you feel and look old. Here are several tips for you to consider.

Do physical exercises. It’s the one of the best ways to stay healthy and young. Physical exercises make your bones strong and solid. Specialists advise to walk and run more often.

Eat properly. Restrict yourself to a diet with a low content of saturated fat. It will help you to decrease cholesterol level and will protect you from heart diseases.

Watch over the changes of premenstrual syndrome. If you have premenstrual syndrome, you should know its symptoms and watch its changes. Sometimes syndrome signs take an acute form before menopause beginning, they can be a warning signal. If you notice prolongation of symptoms or a strange new sensation in your head, you should tell it to your doctor.

Give up smoking. If you stop smoking quite early, menopause will be taking its normal course and its symptoms will appear more rarely. Doctors suppose that menopause can begin with smoking women earlier because nicotine causes diminution of estrogen productiong. If you give up smoking, you can delay menopause a little.

Eat calcium. Loss of bone mass starts already with 35. Later on women lose 1% of bone mass each year. To increase calcium level in your organism you should enrich your ration with fatless diary produce and canned fist with bones. One portion of fatless milk contains 203 mg calcium, one portion of fatless yogurt – 415 mg.

Check your cholesterol level.
Talk to your mother. Women copy their mothers in many respects, especially if they inherited their illnesses. Ask your mother, when her menopause began and how it proceeded.

Well, in case of premature menopause there may be a significant change in hormone levels and their correlation. As a matter of fact, when women enter menopause phase their estrogen levels reduce, as well as collagen production. As you probably know, collagen, the main protein in mammals, making up about twenty five percent of the total protein content, is responsible for keeping the skin toned, elastic and fresh. Accordingly, your skin gets dry, peeling, thin and scaly, and loses its fresh and youthful look, when you start running low on collagen. Naturally, you will inevitably feel older. And as far as it happens prematurely, you start feeling older before your time. Moreover, it is supposed that premature menopause leads to more rapid collagen loss than menopause that occurs at the normal age. Thus, this type of early menopause symptoms is one of the most noticeable and deplorable.

But it’s not a dead matter and there are some ways to cope with unfavorable changes in your skin. As far as it happens because of low estrogen levels, when you increase your estrogen levels there will be an evident improvement. You can do it either through HRT or phytoestrogens like soy or flaxseed. You can also use moisturizers. Of course the effect of them is short-term, still they can conceal these early menopause symptoms by temporarily plumping up the top layer of the skin. As you might already noticed there are dozens of collagen-enriched creams on the market, but you should bear in mind that collagen must come from within to serve your skin right in the long-term period.

Hot flashes and sweating are typical symptoms of menopause: more than 90 percent of women have these symptoms when they become menopausal. The same thing is with early menopause, but in this case hot flashes and sweating are even more common.

Early menopausal women describe hot flashes as prickly, sharp and hot feelings somewhere in the middle of the back. The pulse jumps up and the temperature rises up to several degrees. The heat spreads over the body and envelops the back, chest, neck, face and scalp. The skin feels hot like you’ve been sunbathing for a long time. Your body starts sweating trying to cool itself down. The face, neck and chest may turn pink or even red. The heat is often subsequently interchanged by chill and shivering. Hot flashes and sweating occur during the days time and at night, what causes a woman even more trouble and discomfort.

But there are certain methods to cope with these typical early menopause symptoms. They can be reduced by herbs, vitamins, natural supplements and other traditional methods. There are also some simple tips that you can take into account while striving against hot flashes and sweating. Here they are:

- Reduce the amount of caffeine, alcohol and spicery that you consume;
- Wear clothes of natural fibers, loose-fittings and that are well-layered;
- Try to cope with stress by relaxation and meditation;
- Do physical exercises;
- It is highly recommended to have cold water by your bed in order to be ready to drink it at the first sign of hot flashes and sweating. You can also splash cold water on your face or wrists. You should stay cool. It’s good to use cotton sheets and cotton nightclothes.
- Cover yourself with layers while sleeping, so that you can kick off extra bed layers when you start flashing and sweating. You should also be prepared to replace moist covers when chill and shivering start.