Diet & Vitamins for Menopause Relief

Video Transcript

"Hello my name is Dr. Susan Jewell and on behalf of Expert Village I am going to talk to you about ways to live with menopause. Now, in this particular clip we're going to talk about diet and multivitamins. Now when you are going through menopause or even if you not, I think to maintain your body at its optimum and most healthy state, then I really think you should look at a healthy way of eating and looking at the changes in, in the food that you intake and the way that you cook it. And also in terms of maintaining the structure of your body, for example, your bones, your muscles and the tissues you should look at the vitamins that you take. Especially through menopause because menopause you get decrease in estrogen level and is going to cause a lot, a lot of different signs and symptoms and complications and in, in some females. So, diet is important for menopausal women because she, her body changes in terms of, she retains more fat and adipose tissue at this stage in her life. So, looking at diet, changing eating more healthy, more vegetables and fruits and multivitamins, taking multivitamins. For example, when you have, when you are menopause, you are more prone to getting osteoporosis and endometrial cancer. So, to combat that, then look at some of these items that I have here that you should actually include in your diet. And that important is the, the Omega 3, the oils, fish oil. You can buy these tablets in any health food stores, grocery stores. And you should usually take you know what the recommended at the back has a label, the recommended daily intake of this. So, this is important, fish oil, definitely vitamin c, because you need that for healthy skin and bone and to prevent osteoporosis. Vitamin C, vitamin D and the important is the vitamin B6, complex as well, to help you to combat, to overcome the risk or just decrease the onset of osteoporosis and certain cancers. So, zinc as well is very good. Zinc is very important in many of the internal chemical mechanisms in the body. To maintain your healthy body and healthy way of just living through the stages of menopause. So, look at the diet, make it, make it really, be conscious of that and also include in your diet a lot more of these multivitamins and minerals in your diet when you, you are going in through menopausal stage. "