Menopausal period is a familiar stage and a necessary process for women. The emergence of menopausal syndrome can cause special distress for many women. While we need to regulate ourselves reasonably, we also need to pay attention to the prevention and treatment of various diseases.
Menopausal women are prone to Alzheimer's disease
The decrease in estrogen in menopausal women can promote the increase of APOE4, which is a change in the secretion of neurotransmitters in the hypothalamic limbic system, β- The activity of endorphins and dopamine decreases, the activity of norepinephrine increases, and the secretion of serotonin is impaired. These changes can cause neurological symptoms and memory impairment, leading to Alzheimer's disease.
Prevention of early dementia in menopausal women
1. Cultivate good psychological qualities: establish a good worldview, seek truth from facts, scientifically analyze everything happening around, handle calmly and properly, avoid the occurrence of extreme, stubborn and other psychological biases, and ensure moderate psychological reactions. Participate in work and study with ability, gain psychological satisfaction, and prevent loneliness. Cultivating amateur hobbies, enhancing life interests, adjusting spiritual life, improving mood and lifestyle patterns, and creating a sense of rhythm in psychological activities and life are helpful in cultivating a healthy psychology.
2. Avoiding mental stimulation: Excessive mental stimulation such as anger and sadness can be a major threat to brain function, so one should face life with a broad mind, regulate emotions, achieve happy and stable emotions, coordinate psychology, and treat environmental stimuli correctly.
3. Arrange a reasonable diet: appropriately limit calorie intake, maintain a balance between the amount of calories consumed and the amount of calories consumed each day, eat a moderately hungry and full diet, and avoid overweight. Low fat diet, mainly based on vegetable oil, with fat not exceeding 25% of total energy. Try to consume high-quality proteins such as eggs, fish, and lean meat. Do not eat fried, smoked food, or alcohol.
4. Persist in moderate physical exercise: Choose moderate physical exercise programs, persist, exercise the body, improve physical strength and resistance.
5. Supplementing moderate amounts of phytoestrogens and soy isoflavones: soy isoflavones have the effect of promoting neuronal growth and neural contact formation in the development and maintenance of the nervous system, helping to maintain the function of the cholinergic system in the brain, and altering apolipoprotein e and β Amyloid protein levels increase cerebral blood flow and sugar utilization