There's a great variety of symptoms suffered by women undergoing menopause.

They're the so-called vasomotor symptoms like night sweats and hot flashes,

difficulty sleeping or full-on insomnia,

vaginal dryness and pain during sex, as well as adverse effects on mood, including

full-blown depression.

Might exercise help?

Exercise can certainly help with physical and psychological quality of life in general,

but unfortunately there's no evidence for the effects of exercise

and menopause-specific symptoms.

You know, researchers are getting desperate when they try to see if giving people

pig placenta will help.

Spoiler alert, it doesn't.

Well, we know oxidative stress, which is a consequence of excessive free-oxygen radicals

or impaired antioxidant defense, is linked not only to diseases such as diabetes, obesity,

and cardiovascular disease, but also menopausal symptoms like hot flashes.

Low-free oxygen radical defenses associated with more menopausal symptoms, just like having a diet

with more antioxidants is associated with fewer menopausal symptoms.

In fact, high intake of fruits and vegetables may delay the onset of menopause in the first

place, thought to be because the presence of antioxidants and fruits and vegetables may counteract

the adverse effects of free radicals and the number and functional eggs you still have in your ovaries, whereas the reason high meat consumption

has been related to degenerate diseases may not just be the saturated fat and cholesterol,

but the pro-oxidation products generated during their production, storage, digestion,

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