Essential Oils for Menopause Cheat Sheet
During menopause, your body goes through major hormonal changes — impacting how you feel, think, function and look, including your mood, energy level, weight and the quality of your skin, hair and nails.
Your hormones are chemical messengers that circulate through your body, influencing and coordinating activity between your cells. Hormones are responsible for countless body functions – from hair growth and skin quality, to metabolizing food, maintaining body temperature, causing our heart to beat, preparing our bodies for sex and reproduction, replenishing energy, weight gain — and of course, our mood. They also have a significant influence over how your body stores fat and when and how your body decides to burn it for fuel.
While essential oils are not hormones, they can help support hormonal balance by:
Helping to balance the organs of your endocrine system (that produce and release hormones)
Supporting optimal detoxification to ensure that old hormones are eliminated from your body and do not get reabsorbed and recirculated.
Returning hormone receptors to ensure that the right hormonal signals are sent and received by the cells.
Essential oils derived from plants and herbs possess similar qualities to adaptogenic herbs, in that they promote hormone balance by helping to balance the organs that support optimal hormonal levels and function.
The following assessment can help you identify what essential oil blends can be used to support hormone health before, during and after menopause
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CIRCADIAN RHYTHM
Difficulty falling asleep
Difficulty staying asleep
Difficulty waking up in the morning
Don’t feel well rested after sleep
Difficulty recovering from physical activity
LIVER
Wake up between 1 – 3 a.m.
Become sick, easily intoxicated or hung over when drink wine
Sensitive to smells, like tobacco smoke
Hemorrhoids or varicose veins
If
GALLBLADDER
Pain between my shoulder blades
Stomach feels upset by greasy foods
Stools are greasy, shiny or float in the toilet
Nausea or motion sickness
If you answer yes to one or more above,
LEAKY GUT
Digestive issues such as gas, bloating, diarrhea or irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).
Seasonal allergies or asthma.
Hormonal imbalances such as PMS or PCOS.
Autoimmune Diagnosis
Chronic fatigue or fibromyalgia.
HORMONAL BALANCE
Heels cracked and dry
Libido MIA
Rapid weight gain that won’t budge
Irregular periods? Intense PMS? Hot flashes or other menopausal symptoms
Feeling moody, irritable, weepy or have unstable or unpredictable moods