Q: What is the best herbal product for a lady with low bone density who has been diagnosed with an early menopause at 42 years?  She wants to try and get her periods back. 

A: If there is no medical reason for the early menopause, it is well worth following a nutritional approach to try and get the periods back. A while back a lady of 40 came into the clinic because her periods had stopped suddenly and she was getting hot flushes.  She had been to see her doctor and blood tests showed she was menopausal. I asked her what had been happening around the time that her periods ceased and she said that she had been made redundant and had also lost her father.

I explained that the aim would be to ensure that she was as healthy as possible, addressing any problems with her diet, checking out any vitamin and mineral deficiencies, working on her stress levels and using some herbs to help balance her hormones. Within a couple of months, her periods returned and a further test at her doctors showed that she was no longer ‘menopausal’.

During times of stress, the body starts to shut down the reproductive system in order to give that woman the resources she needs to cope with what is going on.

Agnus castus is very much the herb of choice when trying to bring back periods as it has a balancing effect on hormones.  (The one I would suggest is Agnus Castus Plus which also contains other helpful herbs – see Resources the Page).

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