Vital through the menopause: “Meno-Balance” provides holistic help with typical complaints

Between the ages of 40 and 60, most women experience a profound change in their life circumstances. In addition to existential changes in their career, relationships and family, the ups and downs of hormones also cause physical and mental turbulence. Hand in hand with naturopathy, medicine and the art of living, Petra Neumayer's guide "Meno-Balance" accompanies you through the new phase of life.

From girl to wise woman

Since the publication of her compact guide "First Aid for Menopausal Symptoms & Co." (2018), medical journalist and author Petra Neumayer has received numerous positive letters from readers and book reviews. Among them, repeated requests for a sequel. She is now fulfilling this request with the holistic menopausal guide "Meno-Balance", which is intended to give readers a good overview of the most important natural remedies for all menopausal symptoms.

True to her tried and tested concept of presenting a lot of well-founded medical information in an understandable way, she combines the most important means and options from herbal medicine, homeopathy, biological hormone therapy, superfoods, yoga and much more. Her aim is to explain how the hormone system works, "so that you know how it works and which control points there are to send out positive signals yourself." Because anyone who can accept that the phases of change from girl to wise woman are a unique path will experience the menopause as a transformation process and womanhood in all its dimensions.

A new look at menopause

Sweating, low moods, anxiety, hair loss, exhaustion and insomnia, reduced sexual desire... There are a whole range of unpleasant effects and complaints that can appear around five years before menstruation finally stops. The only thing that can be found in all these phenomena is that menopause is different for every woman! Studies show that some are not affected at all by hot flushes and the like, and many are only moderately affected or only for a certain period of time. But a good third of all women suffer very severely from menopausal symptoms.

The rapid changes of our age also require a new perspective on the menopause: the average life expectancy of hunter-gatherer women was 30 years. Most of them did not experience the menopause at all. Today, things are different; from an evolutionary perspective, this is brand new: never before has there been such a long, degenerative second phase of life. Women in this country live to an average age of 83 years. Due to the long second half of life, the question must now be raised as to whether it does not make sense to take a closer look at the long-term connections and hormone-dependent disease risks. After all, women today live for many years in the triad of premenopause, menopause and postmenopause.

Between the end and the new beginning

As much as our physical symptoms may be evolutionary, the time of change - like all events - also has a mental aspect: change. It's not just the body that changes, everything changes. Change means saying goodbye and starting anew. This change can often trigger deep emotions. Anger and sadness about the end of the fertile phase of life or the changing external circumstances: the children leave home, the parents may need care, and nothing is as it used to be. This can trigger feelings of tightness or fear in some women, as they are suddenly confronted with a completely new life situation.

The menopause is an important development process that involves redesigning the second half of life, moving up to a new level of life. You could also say that the menopause is the period in which reproductive power is transformed into creative power. "Take more time for yourself during this period of life," advises Petra Neumayer. Stress reduction, inner reflection, massages, yoga and a clean and metabolically healthy diet support personal well-being and accompany you on the path to a new femininity and freedom.

Book tip:
Petra Neumayer: Meno-Balance. Mankau Verlag, 1st edition April 2021, paperback, 13.5 x 21.5 cm, 191 pp., 14.95 euros (D) / 15.40 euros (A), ISBN 978-3-86374-587-5.

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