1. Learn to honor your natural intuition.
2. Find your personal strengths.
3. Use your nurturing powers for yourself and those in your life.
4. Promise yourself you will take the time to eat healthy, exercise and find activities that feed your spirit.

                  Menopause Support

• To help with heart and bone health - Exercise!
• To energize, add more fruits, vegetables, and whole grains like couscous, hummus, and "super green" foods.
• For aches, pains, and better memory, add the right kinds of fats: flaxseed meal, salmon, walnuts, and olive oil.
• For hot flashes and night sweats - use teas, tinctures or capsules of black cohosh, red clover, or wild yam.

Soy foods (not pills of soy isolates)   and flax seed meal are "female boosters", include them in you diet every day.

    Herbs for common women's complaints:

Heavy periods - Lady’s Mantle, red raspberry - Add nettles, dandelion, or yellowdock for anemia

PMS - Evening Primrose Oil, 1-2 TBSP flaxseed meal daily

Water retention - Dandelion, Corn Silk

Irregular periods - Chaste Tree Berry, wild yam

Irregular periods with fatigue - Dong Quai or Ginseng

Decreased libido - Damiana

Painful menstrual cramps - Crampbark, Black Haw, Valerian

Painful menstrual cramps with nausea - Ginger

Nutritional support - Nettle, Spirulina, Alfalfa

Increasing fertility - Kelp, False Unicorn, Vitex, Dong Quai