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Ballymaloe-trained chef, Fiona Staunton’s six-week virtual cookingcourse aims to alleviate symptoms of menopause and perimenopause in women and improve their day-to-day lives through educated meal plans and nutritional recipes that the whole family will enjoy.

Have you been dreaming of getting pregnant, without success? Have you gone through several hormone injections or in vitro fertilisation cycles without success? Or do you have any period problems? Do you complain of night sweats, hot flushes, mood swings, pain during intercourse, increased anxiety or irritability, or other menopause-related symptoms? Are you feeling stressful or anxious during the onset of menopause? 

Menopause can be a traumatic period in a woman’s life. Symptoms include hot flushes, night sweats, insomnia, mood swings, memory loss, vaginal dryness, headaches, joint pain, and weight gain.

Menopause can be a traumatic period in a woman’s life. Symptoms include hot flushes, night sweats, insomnia, mood swings, memory loss, vaginal dryness, headaches, joint pain, and weight gain.

For Chinese women, hot flashes and night sweats are uncommon experiences, and very few of them are ever put on hormone replacement therapy by their doctors. It is an interesting fact that only 10 per cent of Asian women experience noticeable menopausal symptoms, compared with 75 per cent of the women in the Western world. What explains the difference between the typical Chinese woman s experience of menopause and the typical Western woman’s experience?

The menopause is a time of change for women, occurring between the ages of 45 and 55 years, and signals an end to the fertile years. Menopausal symptoms are due to falling oestrogen levels, and may last for just a few months or linger for several years. Symptoms differ between women, but can include weight gain, hot flushes, night sweats, irritability, poor concentration, more frequent headaches and joint pains, reduced sex drive, vaginal dryness.

“Menopause and your health” is the title of an information evening being organised by GP and medical herbalist Dr Dilis Clare and her team at the g Hotel on Thursday April 2 from 7.30pm to 9.30pm. Admission is €15.

Menopause The Musical, is an endearing story of four women at a lingerie sale with nothing in common but a black-lace bra and memory loss, hot flushes, night sweats, not enough sex, too much sex, and more.