PMS is more than just a “period,” and can strike at many different ages. But there’s a natural way you can conquer these symptoms and get back to living your life.

For women, menopause signals a significant shift in the hormones circulating in the body. Dealing with those hormonal alterations using natural methods offers the best hope for improved health and mood. Here’s an introductory guide to understanding the discomforts that menopause brings and how to approach these changes.

In today’s fast-paced world where over-medication seems to be the norm, you will find that almost all menopausal women are offered a prescription for synthetic estrogen. But the balancing hormone progesterone is rarely mentioned. And it’s this imbalance between estrogen and progesterone that precisely accounts for the unusual symptoms commonly associated with premenstrual syndrome (PMS).