Does it seem like you’re never in a good mood anymore? Perimenopause symptoms can make you irritable or depressed. You may even find yourself swinging from one extreme to another.
What can you do to feel happy again? There are more answers than you may think.
First, it helps to understand what is happening with your hormones when your moods swing, giving you a short fuse. This is most common in the earlier stages of perimenopause when progesterone drops and estrogen is dominant.
Dr. Marina Rose has helped people with perimenopause symptoms and other challenging, chronic health conditions around the city of San Jose, CA and across the country.
Getting enough sleep is critical to your mental health at this time. Restful sleep helps your body to balance hormones on a deep level by restoring adrenal function. When your adrenals are taxed, they will compete with your ovaries to make their hormones. When your adrenals win, you have even less progesterone to work with. Dr. Christiane Northrup also finds that adrenal health influences perimenopause symptoms.
Keeping your blood sugar stable is another step you can take to feel more like your normal self. Do this by eating regularly and including all the major nutrient groups, proteins, carbohydrates, and fat at each meal.
Finally, you might try herbal nerve tonics like milky oats. Calming teas like chamomile, lavender, or catnip can help too.
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