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Brain Health and MenopauseIt can feel like you're on a roller coaster. One minute you're sharp as a
pin, the next you can't remember your kid's birthday! You forget appointments,
find multi-tasking an impossible challenge, have difficulty concentrating and
those Christian Children infomercials slam you with emotional empathy! At
the end of the day your brain sometimes hurts! Up until menopause the brain, fueled by hormones, emotions, and touch reinforced a woman's connection with and desire to read those around her and care for or remedy whatever was wrong. It's what made her a good mom and/or worker. At menopause the circuits that provided the impulses for these activities is no longer being fed. And we begin to take a more intense look at the world and injustice and inequality. The circuitry that kept us focused on our immediate surroundings and "tribe" have changed to allow us a broader more expansive view. In the May 2005 issue of O magazine, Oprah Winfrey writes about turning fifty: "I marvel that at this age I still feel myself expanding, reaching out and beyond the boundaries of self to become more enlightened. In my twenties, I though there was some magical adult age I'd reach (thirty-five, maybe) and my "adultness" would be complete. Funny how that number kept changing over the years, how even at forty, labeled by society as middle-aged, I still felt I wasn't the adult I knew I could be. Now that my life experiences have transcended every dream or expectation I ever imagined, I know for sure that we have to keep transforming ourselves to become who we ought to be." This is an exciting time to be alive for the menopausal woman. Research and opportunities abound for optimizing brain health and with our life experience and new found focus and passion the world is once again our oyster! Transform your brain, your health and your life into what it was meant to be.
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