Welcome To Learning and Living with Menopause
Welcome to The M.A.Y.A. Blog dedicated to the experience of the process of menopause. The process of menopause can be overwhelming, frustrating and can turn a woman’s life upside down, placing her on pause.The first step into getting back into play action mode is understanding the process of menopause and how it impacts every aspect of your life! Me On Pause will provide tools and resources that can help create a menopause playbook that can make the change more manageable and less disruptive!!
Does Hormonal Birth Control Delay the Start of Menopause?
Click here to learn more about perimenopause and the use of birth control
What can a person do to prepare for perimenopause before it starts?
Click Here to Learn More About Preparing for Perimenopause
Menopause and Pelvic Floor Disorders (Urinary Incontinence)
Click to learn more about Menopause and changes in Pelvic Health.
What to Do About Menopause-Related Insomnia
Click to learn about how sleep changes during Menopause!
What to know about Bone Health and going through the transition to Menopause
Click to Learn more about bone loss and Menopause
The difficulty of Navigating The Change..How to Cope with Menopause Grief
Click to Learn more navigating the feeling of lose and grief menopause can cause.
What Causes Menopausal Brain Fog, and How Is It Treated?
Click to learn more about navigating the change of menopause and brain fog
Understanding Menopause and Anxiety!!!
Click to learn more about menopause and anxiety
How Long Do Symptoms of Menopause Last?
Click to learn more about the durations of the symptoms of menopause
MENOPAUSE RESOURCE: Symptom Tracker (Click to download)
7 Questions to Ask Your Gynecologist About Menopause at Your Next Checkup
Click to learn how to have proactive conversations with your providers about Menopause
What to Know About Headaches and Menopause
Click to learn about Menopause and Headaches
Can You Use GLP-1 Medications for Menopause Weight Gain?
Click to learn about Menopause, weight gain and GLP-1s
What to Know About Racial Disparities in Menopause
Click to learn about racial disparities and menopause!
Can Periods Restart After Menopause?
Click to learn more about how a period is not always at the end!
Falling Estrogen, Soaring ADHD: Menopause Care for Neurodivergent Women
Click to learn about how ADHD impacts menopause!
You are what you eat!! What is your Menopause diet and How what you eat affects your symptoms?
Click to read more about how to maximize food choices to help with menopause!
Menopause and YOUR Changing Body…Let’s talk supplements. Should Women Take Creatine?
Click to learn more about menopause and the benefits of creatine
What to Know About Hormone Therapy for Menopause
Click to learn more about Hormone replacement therapy to address menopausal concerns
What to Know About Weight Gain and Menopause
Click to learn more about the transition of menopause and gaining weight!
What to Know About Menopausal Hormone Therapy and Breast Cancer
Click to learn about HRT and Breast Health!
TEA Time Talk: Let’s Talk Menopause Encore Presentations
Goal Mental Wellness presented it’s first ever Tea Time Talk to chat up menopause. Dr. Jamine Morris of Life: A Wellness Studio joined Maya Akai to discuss the holistic approach to the transition of menopause and understanding how to manage it while aging gracefully!!! Click Below to LISTEN!!
Goal Mental Wellness presented it’s first ever Tea Time Talk to chat up menopause. Cynthia Zurawski ANP of Absolute Integrated Health joined Maya Akai to discuss the medical side of menopause and understanding how to manage it while aging gracefully!!!
Click Here to listen!
12 Natural Ways to Boost Estrogen in Your Body
Click below to read ways to naturally boost estrogen!!!
The changing landscape of sexual desire during the process of menopause
Click above to read the connection with how the process of menopause impacts sexual desire!
Why am I so forgetful?!??
Click above to read the connection with being in a stage of menopause and struggles with memory!
Hip and Lower Back Pain……
Click above to read the connection with being in a stage of menopause and hip and back pain....
Symptom Talk: Sleep and the process of menopause
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Get to Know Your Life Long Companion….Estrogen
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THANKS, for the article!! Did not realize how much estrogen does!
Love it! As a nurse practitioner with medical background and dual certified in psychiatry, many do not understand the role or relationship between estrogen and serotonin.
Estrogen promotes synthesis, prevents breakdown, and inhibits serotonin from being absorbed (making it more available). It also modulates serotonin, meaning it can affect how it can influence or control its expression. Likewise serotonin regulates estrogen. It is a building block to making estrogen and many do not know this!
Judy thanks for sharing!!! Great information about the relationship of estrogen (hormone) and serotonin ( Chemical) in the brain!!!