A New Option For Menopause
Although a natural and inevitable part of life, menopause in Calgary AB comes with changes that can significantly impact your day to day. Hot flashes, night sweats, irritability, anxiety, depression, insomnia and weight gain are the most common struggles.
Naturopathic medicine has many effective strategies to help manage the impact of these symptoms on your daily life, along with addressing long term health risks associated with menopause. As estrogen levels drop, cardiovascular disease, cognitive decline and bone health are impacted. Lifestyle recommendations can be put into place to minimize these changes long-term.
Amber Knott N.D.
Our Approach
Testing is an option to identify if menopause is the cause of your symptoms, as well as to investigate safety of using hormone related treatments. Blood markers for your thyroid, iron, vitamin B12, blood sugar, cholesterol and others may also be important markers to investigate other causes of symptoms and for reducing long-term risk factors.
A New Option
Naturopathic treatment of menopause may include hormonal support from food, botanicals or nutraceuticals. There are degrees of intensity when it comes to these products, finding the lowest effective dose to manage your symptoms will be our course of action. Diet, exercise, stress management and sleep are addressed to help ease this transition, as well as for long-term health outcomes. This often includes a targeted preventative medicine approach to cardiovascular, bone and cognitive decline risks.
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