Menopause is a normal phenomenon. Women are affected by changes during their life, and one of these important changes is menopause. In most of the cases, between 45 and 55 years, in a woman's life a great change is happening because period stops and the possibility of pregnancy is lost. We can not talk about menopause as we talk about a disease but at this time of their life women experience a mixture of symptoms like vaginal dryness, mood swings, problems with sleep, or hot flashes, symptoms that need proper medical care and treatment. During menopause women's estrogen levels fall and their body is suspect of osteoporosis.

Women enter this period around the age of 45. If menopause doesn't occur before 55 years and not earlier than 45 it's considered either premature or rather late, and we can say that is an abnormal phenomenon.

A small percent of women experience premature menopause and the causes are smoking, life at high altitudes, or lack of pregnancy. Anyway, women with premature menopause should see a doctor to check for other medical problems that could cause this fact.

Just before menopause, women pass through a transition period of 3 to 5 years called perimenopause, when menopause symptoms begin but women do not stop menstruating.

Surgical menopause represents the removal of ovaries. After this procedure the risk of heart disease increases and women can not get rid of menopausal symptoms without treatment.

Menopause represents a women's fertility lost. During its' lifetime a women loses a small percentage from the up to 3 million ovarian follicles, that she has at her birth, through normal ovulation. Around the age of menopause women have fewer than 10.000 eggs, because most of their eggs die through artresia.

The reproductive hormone called follicle - stimulating hormone, FSH, is responsible for the increase of ovarian follicles in the first period of a women's life. After this first period in her life a woman's ovarian follicles become immune to the hormone called follicle - stimulating hormone and ovaries reduce their production of estrogen.

Estrogen is an important hormone and its' production stoppage affects many parts of the body from heart to bones. This hormone loss is the cause of most of the menopause symptoms. Not only the production of estrogen is reduced in this period of a woman's life, but also the production of testosterone another important hormone responsible with the sexual drive.

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