We Talk Menopause
My 5 secret strategies for a better menopause
When it comes to the menopause we often tend to focus on the big things, like eating a better diet and drinking plenty of water, but sometimes it’s the little things that can really help you through this difficult time. Today Eileen is discussing some of her favourite strategies for a better menopause. Watch or read all about this on her latest blog post here:https://www.avogel.co.uk/health/menopause/videos/my-5-secret-strategies-for-a-better-menopause/
hello and welcome to my weekly video blog and today on a Vogel talks menopause I'm going to tell you about my five secret strategies that have helped me through the menopause now most of us know all the usual ones or hopefully by now you will things like drinking plenty of water having a good diet trying to get a good night's sleep but most of us will find that we have other little individual strategies that help us to cope and I thought today I would tell you about my five most favorite ones so the first one that has helped me tremendously and I would have been absolutely lost without it is yoga and I find it a very gentle exercise it does depend on what type of yoga you do there are different kinds I tend to go with hatha yoga which is focuses on breathing and another nice gentle when it's drue yoga and these incorporate gentle movement stretching and then you get to lie down and you get to relax and I found for me that it's helped to keep my joints supple it's helped to keep my muscles strong it's been very good for balance and as I mentioned before balance is one of the things that often goes postmenopausal and it makes as much more vulnerable to falling and having hip fracture so learning balancing poses can be really beneficial for us and it's also it's given me a little bit of time I when I'm doing my yoga I find that I just forget about everything else and I know a lot of you will be saying but we don't have time for this I don't have time either you know I'm very very busy a lot of the time I just get DVDs and I do it at home 15 minutes twice a week after I get up before I go to work it's over and done with and I found just even doing it for that short space of time has given me such a great deal of benefit over the years my second secret is kelp and kelp is a supplement and kelp contains iodine and one of the interesting things that we have noticed in our experience over the last few years is that a huge number of women and
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Unfortunately, the video stopped before it was finished. Looking forward to watching the whole video!