Menopause – This is a rather difficult period, which necessarily comes in the life of every woman. At this time, physiological changes occur in the body, accompanied by a decrease in the level of female sex hormones. All this is reflected in the emotional state of a woman, the health of the body and, of course, in her appearance.
Everyone knows that aesthetic anti-age medicine today is the first assistant in the fight against aging, but few people know that its methods do not work effectively without hormone therapy.
Exclusive advice on the use of menopausal therapy for rejuvenation from an obstetrician-gynecologist of the first category, a dermatovenereologist Shavrina Nina Georgievna read on estet-portal.com in today's article.
Why is the appointment of menopausal therapy a very relevant issue today
N.Sh. It has long been proven that women age very quickly. The climacteric period is now very younger: the gold standard of its beginning – this is 45 years old, but there are cases when it starts even from 35 years old.
In my practice, I now see that menopause begins at about 42 years old.
And now, imagine: a woman at such an active age, is engaged in a family, works, leads an active lifestyle, and suddenly she has perimenopause. After all, menopause does not occur immediately, but first changes in the menstrual cycle occur, it shortens or lengthens, or bleeding begins, or endometrial hyperplastic processes and other changes occur. The woman begins to visit the gynecologist and complain about changes in the cycle.
Other complaints include depression, tearfulness, unreasonable fear, anxiety, aggression, and loss of sleep. All these complaints indicate that the woman is undergoing hormonal changes and perimenopause begins. If you add pain in small joints, in the lower back and in the legs, then you need to shout SOS.
Just in order to save a woman from these unpleasant symptoms and give her the opportunity to continue to lead an active lifestyle during perimenopause and menopause – and menopausal therapy is prescribed.
What role does menopausal therapy play in aesthetic medicine, and in particular in matters of rejuvenation
N.Sh. Many aesthetic procedures do not work for older women without menopausal therapy. If an older woman is taken for an anti-age procedure, that is, the introduction of fillers, mesopreparations, and so on, then she really looks good for some time, but after just a few months the effect disappears, and the woman looks the same, if not worse.
This happens because the skin is a hormone-dependent organ, and it has receptors that respond to the amount of estrogen. And if this amount is lower, then so that we don’t prick this skin, it will sleep and slowly… die. To have a positive reaction to any injection and hardware technique, you need to add a certain amount of estrogens.
Against the background of menopausal therapy, all procedures will actively work in the skin, and if it is not prescribed – the effect of the procedure is lost after only a few months.
That is why aestheticians should know that there is such a problem, she is young, and if in a conversation, lying on the couch with an aesthetician, a woman makes characteristic complaints – she should be immediately referred to a gynecologist for prescribing menopausal therapy, and then the patient will return with gratitude, and will bring beauty only to this specialist.
How does menopausal therapy affect the state of the cardiovascular system
N.Sh. Menopausal therapy primarily affects the vascular endothelium. In old age, they become fragile and brittle, and hormones are protectors for blood vessels so that they remain elastic, smooth, blood clots do not form, inflammation of the vessels and atherosclerosis do not occur. Vessels are everywhere, including in the dermis, and therefore a woman with good vessels will visually look younger.
If a woman who is known to be healthy in perimenopause and has 3-5 of the above symptoms is correctly prescribed menopausal therapy – in 51% of cases, this woman will remain healthy after 10 years. It is better to prevent old age than to be its hostage, and to treat hypertension, heart attack and stroke.
Some patients are afraid that hormone therapy will negatively affect their weight. Is it true?
N.Sh. It will, but only positively. Long-term studies have proven that in one year of using menopausal therapy, a woman's weight changes by minus 10 kg! Many older women have a problem of excess weight, they diet, do fitness, but do not lose weight because they do not have the right level of hormones.
If the level of estrogen and progesterone in a woman's body goes down – visceral obesity appears. It is impossible to lose weight without normalizing hormone levels. And against the background of menopausal therapy, even without a diet, a woman will lose about 10 kg in just one year.
How menopausal therapy solves the problem of skeletal disorders
N.Sh. When a woman has pain in her small joints – this indicates the onset of osteoporosis. Many women immediately start taking calcium, without prescribing menopausal therapy, and make themselves a big trouble because calcium is not absorbed correctly and is deposited in the kidneys, forming first sand and then stones.
Menopausal hormone therapy prevents osteoporosis and helps calcium to be properly absorbed.
If you take menopausal therapy, and the same fish oil or calcium gluconate with vitamin C, then everything will be absorbed, and exactly where you need it. I lived in Germany for a long time, and I know that European women have menopausal therapy included in their insurance. And if a European woman who has taken menopausal therapy has a hip fracture – her insurance gives her a free prosthesis.
If the patient for some reason did not take hormone therapy – She has to pay for the prosthesis herself. It is thanks to menopausal therapy that European grandmothers dance, travel and lead an active lifestyle.
Which cosmetic procedures, combined with menopausal therapy, work best for rejuvenation
N.Sh. There are some of the most effective cosmetic procedures that work great in combination with menopausal therapy.
5 gold procedures for women of elegant age:
1 – exfoliation, 2 – superficial chemical peels, 3 – plasmolifting, 4 – threadlifting, and 5 – injection techniques.
All of these procedures will work and give a great effect in menopausal therapy, because they are based on the restructuring of the dermis. Leather – it is an estrogen-dependent organ, and only against the background of exposure to estrogen and progesterone, under the influence of cosmetic procedures, fibroblasts are stimulated and collagen and elastin are produced.
It is these procedures that give real rejuvenation, because they work to restructure the dermis. But a pronounced and long-lasting effect of rejuvenation is possible only against the background of menopausal therapy.
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