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These women, as well as women who experience early natural menopause medicinal (before age 40) or prolonged time without menstrual periods due to excessive exercising or dieting, may be at a greater risk later in life for health herb problems such as osteoporosis or early heart disease because they spend more years without the protective effect of estrogen. Just as every woman¹s body is unique, your menopause experience will be a highly personal one. For example, 15 to 20 percent of women experience no physical symptoms at all, except the end of their menstrual periods. Some women go through menopause before age 51 and some experience it a bit later. Early menopause is defined as occurring at any age younger than age 51. Early menopause can occur naturally, but premature menopausal symptoms may signal an underlying condition, so it is important to medicinal discuss any symptoms with your healthcare professional. Menopause can occur as early herb as your 30s and, rarely, as late as in your 60s. However, there is no correlation between the time of a woman''s first period and her age at menopause. In medicinal addition, age at menopause is not influenced by race, height, the number of children a woman has had, Since the days of Hippocrates, chaste tree (Vitex agnus-castus) has been used for gynecological conditions. The Greek physician Hippocrates (460-377 B.C.) wrote, "If blood flows from the womb, let the woman drink dark wine in which the leaves of the chaste tree have been steeped." herb With a rich traditional of use, modern research supports historical wisdom, and has made chaste tree fruit preparations a phytomedicine of choice by European gynecologists for treatment of various menstrual disorders, PMS, and other medicinal conditions. Chaste tree was associated with ancient Greek festivals. In the Thesmophoria, a festival held in honor of Demeter, the Greek goddess of agriculture, fertility and marriage, women (who remained "chaste" during the festival), used chaste tree blossoms for adornment, herb and medicinal while bows of twigs and herb leaves, were strewn around Demeter’s temple during the festival. In Rome, vestal virgins carried twigs of chaste tree as a symbol of chastity. According to Greek mythology, Hera, sister and wife of Zeus, regarded as protectress of marriage, was born under a chaste tree Ancient traditions associating the shrub with chastity were adopted medicinal in Christian ritual. This constant dance of hormones orchestrates our fertility, a dance that changes throughout the month and throughout our lives. Of the millions of follicles (eggs) in the ovaries, eight to ten mature each month. But, in most cases, only one reaches the point that it ruptures and releases an egg herb (ovulation). The unused follicles die. After ovulation, the ruptured medicinal and herb follicle reconnects and continues to grow, becoming the corpus luteum. In preparation for fertilization, it produces estrogen medicinal and progesterone to create an extra lining herb in the uterus. But after about 12 days, if no fertilization occurs, the corpus luteum dies, and estrogen and progesterone levels plunge. This causes the lining to be expelled. Menstruation begins. Hormonally, a woman''s period marks the end of the menstrual cycle. A new cycle begins when the hypothalamus, in response to the dramatic drop in estrogen and progesterone levels at the end of the last cycle, sends GnRh (another hormone) to the pituitary, which then releases a new batch of follicle stimulating hormones (FSH) to the ovaries. This stimulates the maturation of a small group of follicles.
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