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Breathing Techniques for Managing Menopause Symptoms
Menopause can bring a variety of symptoms, including hot flashes, anxiety, and sleep disturbances. Incorporating breathing techniques into your daily routine can help alleviate some of these symptoms. Here are some effective methods: 1. Diaphragmatic Breathing Taking a deep breath is more than just filling your lungs; it’s a way to reconnect with your body. Each inhalation not only brings in fresh oxygen but also aids in expelling carbon dioxide, enhancing your overall breath

Barbara Powelec
Nov 125 min read


Natural Approaches for Managing Hot Flushes and Night Sweats During Menopause
Understanding Hot Flushes and Night Sweats: Embracing Change Hot flushes are sudden feelings of heat that can spread across the body, particularly affecting the face and neck. Night sweats, conversely, are episodes of excessive sweating during sleep. Research indicates that up to 75% of women experience hot flushes and night sweats during menopause. While medical treatments are available, natural approaches can offer effective relief without relying solely on medications. Mas

Barbara Powelec
Nov 35 min read


Joint Pain During Menopause: Understanding Causes, Hormones, and Practical Relief Strategies
Menopause is often associated with hot flashes, night sweats, and mood changes. However, for many women, joint pain is an unexpected and...

Barbara Powelec
Aug 264 min read


Bone Health during menopause
Menopause marks a significant turning point in a woman's bone health, primarily due to dramatic hormonal changes—especially the decline...

Barbara Powelec
Apr 154 min read


Menopause Superpowers: 5 Ways This Phase Makes You Stronger Than Ever
Menopause often gets a bad reputation—hot flashes, mood swings, and sleepless nights tend to steal the spotlight. But let’s flip the...

Barbara Powelec
Feb 242 min read


My face wither away 😭Menopause skin care
When it comes to menopausal skin changes, it's like your hormones decided to throw a wild party and didn't invite oestrogen. This hormonal rollercoaster leads to a nosedive in collagen production, turning your skin's elasticity and firmness into a distant memory. Your skin starts to resemble a deflated balloon, with fine lines and wrinkles popping up like uninvited guests. The moisture levels drop down, leaving your skin as dry and sensitive. The skin barrier, once a mighty f

Barbara Powelec
Feb 2110 min read


Untold Challenges: Navigating Sexual Health in Perimenopause
Common sexual health challenges during perimenopause and natural holistic solutions and remedies.

Barbara Powelec
Feb 511 min read


Detoxification Matters!
Hormonal imbalances can cause a range of issues, including fatigue, mood swings, weight gain, and skin problems. With our exposure to environmental toxins, poor dietary choices, and stress, our liver—the body’s detoxification powerhouse—works overtime to keep us healthy. To maintain hormonal harmony, detoxification is crucial. This post will explore same natural alternatives that can support the body’s detoxification process and promote hormone health. Why Detoxification Matt

Barbara Powelec
Oct 23, 20246 min read


Could CBD Oil Affect Menopause? Exploring the Benefits and How It Works
Cannabidiol (CBD), a compound derived from the cannabis plant, has been gaining traction for its potential to relieve symptoms associated with menopause. But how exactly does CBD oil affect menopause, and which symptoms might it help alleviate? CBD interacts with the body's endocannabinoid system (ECS), a complex cell-signaling system that helps regulate many functions, including sleep, mood, pain, and immune response. The ECS plays a role in maintaining homeostasis (balance)

Barbara Powelec
Sep 27, 20243 min read


Depression during menopause
Menopause is a significant life transition for women, often accompanied by various physical and psychological challenges. Among these challenges, depression stands out as one of the most serious complications. Understanding the intertwining factors that contribute to menopausal depression is crucial for providing better support to women during this period. Recognizing Menopause Depression The early symptoms of menopause, primarily driven by estrogen deficiency, can mimic thos

Barbara Powelec
Jul 23, 20242 min read


Practice self- love!
Menopause can affect a woman’s self-esteem and make them feel less attractive, less energetic, and less productive. If you’re experiencing these symptoms, know that you’re not alone. While it can bring a variety of physical and emotional changes, it’s also a period that offers an opportunity for growth and self-discovery. Practicing self-love and building self-confidence during menopause can make this transition smoother and more empowering. Some self care strategies can help

Barbara Powelec
Jul 18, 20243 min read


I can't sleep!
Perimenopause, the transitional period leading up to menopause, brings with it a myriad of physical and emotional changes, one of the most frustrating being sleep disturbances. These sleep problems are often closely tied to hormonal imbalances, specifically fluctuations in estrogen and progesterone. Understanding the connection between perimenopause and sleep issues, and learning effective strategies to mitigate these problems, can significantly improve overall well-being. Th

Barbara Powelec
Jul 6, 20243 min read


Adaptogenes for hormonal balance
Adaptogens relieve stress by modulating the release of stress hormones from the adrenal glands. As biological response modifiers (BRMs) adaptogens restore the body’s innate immune function and help the body adapt to different stressors. This gives them preventative and protective as well as curative activity in compromised immunity. By replenishing our deeper immunity and regulating our response to stress, adaptogens replenish the wellspring of health and vitality and are tru

Barbara Powelec
Jun 17, 20243 min read


Mind-Body Connection for Emotional Well-being During Menopause
Menopause can bring about emotional ups and downs, and maintaining a strong mind-body connection can help you navigate this period with greater ease. Here are some practices to enhance your emotional well-being during menopause: Mindfulness Meditation Mindfulness involves paying focused, non-judgmental attention to the present moment. Reduces stress, anxiety, and depression. Enhances self-awareness and emotional regulation. How to Practice : Find a quiet space, sit comfortabl

Barbara Powelec
Jun 11, 20242 min read


Bye bye kebab at midnight
We often desperately looking for on a wonderful diet, which are aimed at reducing our waist, emphasize metabolism and abandoned we cry in pillows and eating our helplessness with biscuits and ice cream. Diverse diets are offered to women of a certain age: keto, Mediterranean, Norwegian. I believe that first of all it is to eat smarter. It is known that with age our metabolism slows down, we lose the ability to produce some of the substances, we're slower in assimilating many

Barbara Powelec
Aug 4, 20203 min read


How to fight - Phytoestrogens
Plant hormones are responsible for the plant cycle of life - from its germination, development, fruiting, to flowering.

Barbara Powelec
Jul 14, 20202 min read


How to fight - hormone replacement therapy
We already know, behind all our "disorders" are these horrible hormones 🙄 Supposedly there are more than 100 of them in the human body, some of them have a women only and they are responsible for the width of our hips, our well-being and our moods. We always have something to blame😎 Paradoxically they're produced by fats and cholesterol. So the fat is also needed, of course the good one. I'll write about the good one another time. When we don't have hormonal balance, strang

Barbara Powelec
Jul 2, 20203 min read


Deceive menopause - identifying enemy ;)
For starters, some boring facts🥱 According to the World Health Organization, this is the last menstruation in a woman's life. It is diagnosed when there is no period for a year.. Then the woman cannot get pregnant and her menstrual cycle is stopped. The stage covering a few years before and a few years after the last menstrual period is called the perimenopausal period. It lasts from 10 to 14 years and usually starts between the ages of 44 and 56. Each lady has a slightly di

Barbara Powelec
Jun 26, 20203 min read


Deceive menopause!!!
I decided to write a blog. Why? Why not? Firstly, it will be a great lesson in English for me and secondly........ I am 48 years old woman and I noticed that my body start to change. Do you know what I am talking about? My body starts to store fat and water like winter supplies and pushes it into my thighs, stomach and arms. It always amazed me how you can have celullite on your arms? They do something all the time. It's not just the body that surprises me. Mood swings. No en

Barbara Powelec
Jun 22, 20201 min read
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