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Menopause: Easing the Transition.(Cover Story)
Byline: Nancy Ferrari; Leslee Kagan, N.P.; Bruce Kessel, M.D., and Herbert Benson, M.D. (Adapted from "Mind Over Menopause: The Complete Mind/Body Approach to Coping With Menopause" (Free Press. 2004) . For more information go to health.harvard.edu/NEWSWEEK.)
Some women glide through menopause without breaking a sweat. For others, hot flashes, mood swings, insomnia and PMS become a constant burden. Short-term hormone therapy can temper severe symptoms, but it carries risks as well as benefits. And though other treatments abound, none of them is a cure-all. A few studies have found that soy and black cohosh (an herbal remedy sold as Remifemin) can help relieve symptoms, though not as reliably as hormones. For women who want relief without risk, mind-body techniques offer another valuable option. These techniques can ease all the core symptoms of menopause--and in our experience, most women get at least some relief from them.
At the heart of the mind-body approach is the relaxation response, a state of calm achieved through exercises such as yoga, meditation, biofeedback, progressive muscle relaxation or a breathing technique called paced respiration. In two clinical studies, researchers ...
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