Menstruation problems

Menstruation problems

Find out what's normal and what's not normal for your periods.

Amenorrhoea (absence of periods)

Amenorrhoea simply means an absence of your periods. Doctors usually classify amenorrhoea into primary or secondary amenorrhoea.

• Primary amenorrhoea: where your periods have never started and you are at least 16 years old.
• Secondary amenorrhoea: where you normally have periods but they have stopped for 6 months or more.

When is it normal not to have periods?

It is normal not to have periods:

• before you reach puberty;
• when you are pregnant;
• if you are breast feeding; and
• if you have reached menopause.

Causes of amenorrhoea

Amenorrhoea may be caused by:

• malfunction of the thyroid gland, the hypothalamus (part of the brain that helps regulate the menstrual cycle) or the pituitary gland;
• problems with the ovaries;
• anatomical problems with the uterus, cervix or vagina;
• delayed puberty;
• prolonged strenuous exercise;
• stress;
• depression and some other forms of mental illness;
• low body weight;
• some medicines, including the oral contraceptive pill (it can take 3-6 months to start periods again after stopping the pill), certain antipsychotic medicines and cancer chemotherapies;
• chronic illness;
• hormonal imbalances such as polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS); or
• premature menopause.

Dysmenorrhoea (painful periods)

Dysmenorrhoea means painful periods. Period pain and discomfort is usually most severe for the first day or so of your period. Dysmenorrhoea tends to peak quite soon after puberty, so if your periods are getting increasingly painful as you get older, see your doctor. Doctors usually classify dysmenorrhoea into primary or secondary dysmenorrhoea (see below).

Dysmenorrhoea symptoms

Common symptoms of dysmenorrhoea include:

• pain in the lower abdomen and occasionally the upper thighs; and
• cramps.

Common symptoms associated with dysmenorrhoea include:

• headaches;
• nausea; and
• constipation or diarrhoea.

Occasionally you may have vomiting.

The symptoms, which do not last very long (usually around one to 2 days), are caused by prostaglandins, natural substances found in many body tissues. Prostaglandins stimulate contractions of the muscles of your uterus during your period. Experts believe these contractions of the uterus compress the blood vessels to the uterus, temporarily cutting off the blood supply and depriving the tissues of oxygen, which triggers pain.

Primary dysmenorrhoea

Primary dysmenorrhoea may affect more than half of all women, and occurs with no known underlying cause. The pain in primary dysmenorrhoea occurs from the contractions of the uterus, caused by prostaglandins, described above.

Secondary dysmenorrhoea

Secondary dysmenorrhoea is caused by an underlying gynaecological problem or condition such as:

• endometriosis;
• pelvic inflammatory disease; or
• fibroids (growths in the uterus).

The use of intra-uterine devices for contraception (not including the intra-uterine levonorgestrel-releasing system Mirena) has also been associated with dysmenorrhoea and heavy bleeding.

Menorrhagia (heavy periods)

Menorrhagia means that periods are long and heavy. It is one of the most common causes of iron deficiency anemia in Australian women. Menorrhagia may include periods that are prolonged, lasting for longer than a week, or that involve excessive bleeding with 'flooding' or clots.

Women with menorrhagia lose 80 mL (4 tablespoons) or more of blood per period (equivalent to about 6 tampons per day for 4 to 5 days).

Causes of menorrhagia

Menorrhagia may be caused by:

• hormonal imbalances (e.g. in menstrual cycles where no egg is produced, which are more common in girls who have just started menstruating and women approaching the menopause);
• a bleeding disorder;
• fibroids;
• polyps (small growths on the cervical or uterine wall);
• endometriosis;
• polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS);
• thyroid disease;
• liver or kidney disease;
• infection (pelvic inflammatory disease);
• intra-uterine devices (IUDs), not including the intra-uterine system Mirena, which is, in fact, a treatment option for menorrhagia;
• some medicines, such as anti-inflammatory medicines and anticoagulants; or
• (rarely) cancer.

As it has been known many of diseases/health problems we keep facing in our daily life these days are caused by deficiency of some food nutrients, minerals and vitamins. This happen because of most of the foods we eat are too much high processed so it lose all important nutrients needed by our bodies.

FOREVER LIVING PRODUCTS  have seen the need of taking us back to our nature life so we can have our healthy bodies as our ancestors used to be  by making natural food products to support and help everyone with any health problems.

The following are the forever living products supplements recommended for the menstruation problem.

Forever Aloe Berry Nectar You can drink Forever Aloe Berry Nectar™ with meals or alone. The delicious flavor is totally natural, prepared from a blend of fresh cranberries and sweet, mellow apples. Added fructose (a natural fruit sugar) sweetens it just enough to please both adults and children alike.

Forever Aloe Berry Nectar™ contains all of the goodness found in our Forever Aloe Vera Gel™, plus the added benefits of cranberry and apple.

Besides their reputation as a cleanser for the urinary tract, cranberries provide a high content of vitamin C. They are also a natural source of healthful proanthocyanidins.

Apple juice contains many flavonoids as well as pectin.

You can drink Forever Aloe Berry Nectar™ with meals or alone. The delicious flavor is totally natural, prepared from a blend of fresh cranberries and sweet, mellow apples. Added fructose (a natural fruit sugar) sweetens it just enough to please both adults and children alike.

• All the benefits of Forever Aloe Vera Gel™ with the sweet taste of cranberries
• Contains healthful phytonutrients
• Natural source of Vitamin C

FOREVER BEE POLLEN® A boost to energy and stamina, Forever Bee Pollen is all-natural and contains no preservatives, artificial colors, or flavors.

Pollen is the fertilizing dust of flowers. Bees gather and bring it back to their hives for food. Without pollen, plants, trees and flowers could not exist; even we depend on it. Forever Bee Pollen® is gathered in specially-designed stainless steel collectors and ensures the freshest and most potent natural food. Forever Bee Pollen® is all-natural and contains no preservatives, artificial flavors, or colors. Bee Pollen is readily digestible and easily absorbed by the human body. Research by scientists suggest that Bee Pollen provides energy and may enhance stamina.

• Excellent supplement from the beehive
• Boosts energy
• May enhance stamina

Royal Jelly

ROYAL JELLY MAKES YOU MORE YOUTHFUL

Royal Jelly is a milky substance produced by the young nurse worker bees (honey bees) in a beehive. It is secreted from the hypopharyngeal and mandibular glands situated in the heads of young workers and are derived from the proteins and nutrients in the pollen ingested by the secreting bees to feed all of the larvae in the colony, including those destined to become workers.

This rich jelly called Royal Jelly is manufactured solely in order to nourish the young larvae and sustain the queen.

Deep within every ordinary beehive a miracle unfolds. A single bee is chosen to become the Queen. As she feeds solely upon Royal Jelly in large quantities for the next four days, a wondrous food produced exclusively for her by the worker bees, she undergoes an amazing transformation that allows her to live nearly six years. The less fortunate worker bees, feeding only on honey and pollen, live about six weeks!

Astoundingly, if you take the Queen Bee off her diet of fresh Royal Jelly, she also lives about six weeks, just like the worker bees! The span of the worker bee’s life is about 35-40 days; while the queen lives 5-6 years and is extremely prolific. She is fertilized once, and from that moment on can lay as many as three thousand eggs a day during the season.

As incredible as this may seem, she can lay that many eggs for five years. Any creature that has that amount of energy and vitality has to be respected!

It is clear that, when it comes to providing the Queen Bee with sustenance, energy and long life, Royal Jelly can only be described as one of nature’s miraculous foods.

Cultivation

Royal Jelly is produced by stimulating colonies with movable frame hives to produce queen bees. It is collected from each individual queen cell when the larva is about four days old. It is collected from queen cells because these are the only cells in which large amounts are deposited.

Composition & Uses

The overall composition of Royal Jelly is 67% water, 12.5% crude protein (including small amounts of many different amino acids), and 11% simple sugars, also including a relatively high amount (5%) of fatty acids.

It contains remarkable amounts of proteins, lipids, vitamins B-1, B-2, B-6, C, E, hormones, enzymes, mineral substances, and specific vital factors like gamma globulin, which helps your immune system fight off viral infections.

Although some of the elements found in Royal Jelly are in microgram quantities, they still can act supremely with co-enzymes as catalysts or can act synergistically.

Royal Jelly is rich in folic acid and pantothenic acid. In fact, it contains seventeen times as much pantothenic acid (one of the most important substances in the body, essential for the synthesis and metabolism of proteins, fats, carbohydrates and several hormones) as that found in dry pollen.

The amino acids in Royal Jelly are of significant interest to nutritionists. Long associated with the ability to fight ‘free-radicals’ in the body, amino acids form the basis of our chemical make-up, and are essential to growth and the ability to fight infection and disease.

In most cases we cannot create our own amino acid, so we must ingest them through the foods that we eat. The actual chemical make-up of Royal Jelly remains an unrevealed Royal secret. The fact is that we can’t recreate Royal Jelly by a recipe or something!

Royal Jelly is a delicate liquid. As soon as it’s removed from the sterile environment it can get infected. So once removed from the hive it must be processed quickly to prevent contamination, ideally within two or three hours.

Our Royal Jelly is gathered from dry, remote, high Sonoran desert regions where pristine conditions provide the ideal environment for our beehives.

It is extracted from the hive and immediately freeze-dried to remove only the excess water from the product, leaving all vitamins, minerals, enzymes and co-enzymes present.

Freeze drying ‘locksin’ the nutritional content of the product and removes the water without affecting the nutrient quality of the product.

Moreover, Forever Royal Jelly is devoid of artificial colours or flavours and is preserved in it’s most natural state.

The source of your product is of vital importance as many bee-keepers may not be equipped to process the Royal Jelly efficiently, and this can lead to degraded nutritional content and various forms of contamination.

Forever Royal Jelly is a powerful super-food which adds a potent punch to our diet and well-being.

FOREVER GARLIC-THYME® Garlic and thyme, the two powerful antioxidants found in Forever Garlic- Thyme®, combine to create a great tool in maintaining good health. When garlic is cut or crushed, enzymes react to produce a powerful immunity-enhancing agent. Studies have shown that garlic’s other ingredients help the metabolism convert fats to energy and protect the body against free radicals. Contains soy.

The dietary use of garlic and thyme has been traced back thousands of years. An Egyptian papyrus dating from 1,500BC listed 22 healthy uses for garlic. Today, we are starting to understand how they work.

Garlic and thyme, the two powerful antioxidants found in Forever Garlic-Thyme®, combine to create a great tool in maintaining good health. When garlic is cut or crushed, enzymes react to produce a powerful immune-enhancing agent. Studies have shown that garlic’s other ingredients help the metabolism convert fats to energy and protect the body against free radicals.

Thyme contains saponins and other beneficial antioxidant substances.

• Powerful antioxidant
• Odorless, softgel capsule
• Helps protect the body against free radicals
• Helps support the conversion of fats to energy

NATURE-MIN® Nature-Min® is an advanced, multimineral formula using bio-available forms of minerals for maximum absorption. It provides minerals and trace minerals in a perfectly balanced ratio for maximum efficiency. Using a mineral base of natural seabed deposits and chelated marine plants and animals, Nature-Min® provides most of the minerals found in the human body.

Your body can benefit from nutrients locked deep in an ancient seabed, because four percent of our body weight is comprised of these minerals. Since our bodies can’t manufacture minerals, we have to obtain them from our food or supplementation.

Forever Nature-Min® is an advanced, multi-mineral formula using new bio-available forms of minerals for maximum absorption. It provides minerals and trace minerals in a perfectly balanced ratio for maximum efficiency. Using a mineral base of natural seabed deposits, Nature-Min provides most of the key minerals found in the human body.

Minerals in the body perform three functions:

1. Some, like calcium, phosphorus and magnesium, are constituents of the bones and teeth.
2. Others are soluble salts that help to control the composition of body fluids and cells.
3. Minerals, such as iron and hemoglobin, perform other vital tasks. They work with enzymes and proteins, which are necessary for releasing and utilizing energy.

Forever Nature-Min® is an excellent way to ensure that your body is getting the minerals and trace minerals it needs to meet the demands of a healthy, balanced lifestyle.

Contains trace minerals from natural sea bed deposit
Perfect blend of minerals in each tablet
Minerals play many roles in the human body, from regulating fluid balance to activating genes and hormones

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