Holistic Menopause Support in Alexandria: Lasting Results
A personalized, holistic approach to menopause that helps you get back to feeling your best!
Menopause can change your life – and not always in a way you want. You notice your body just isn’t working the way it used to. Everything from hot flashes to sleep troubles, brain fog, weight gain, joint pain, increased anxiety and more, it can feel like you’re no longer in the same body. Finding balance through this transition requires more than quick fixes, which is why Thrive Naturopathic, in Alexandria, offers personalized care that gets to the root cause of your symptoms.
With Thrive Naturopathic’s holistic, functional medicine approach to menopause, you can get back to feeling great without the need for prescription medications! Our practitioners take the time to truly understand you as an individual and show you exactly what you need to do to achieve your health goals. By empowering you to understand how to change your health, we can help you get back to living your best life!
Holistic Menopause Support
When you work with Thrive Naturopathic, you receive compassionate guidance to help you navigate the experience of menopause. Our unique approach emphasizes changing your diet, lifestyle and emotional/stress-response patterns in order to change your hormonal balance.
Our experienced team will give you all the insight, structure and support you need to optimize your lifestyle and reclaim your health.
Book a Discovery Call with Thrive Naturopathic to discuss how you can regain your energy, focus and hormonal balance – to unlock your full health potential!
What Causes Menopausal Symptoms?
In menopause, the body’s sex hormone levels shift. Estrogen, progesterone and testosterone all decrease. However, it is not just the absolute levels that decrease. Additionally, the relationship between these hormones also changes. In other words, some hormones decrease more than others – so their proportions relative to each other, change.
This is an important distinction because it is the balance between hormones that has the greatest effect on our health, not the absolute levels.
You cannot change the fact that your body produces lower levels of sex hormones in menopause, but what you can change is the balance between the hormones.
So, how do you do this?
There are 3 main body systems that determine hormonal balance – 1) the brain and nervous system, 2) the gut (intestines/digestive tract) and 3) the liver.
Hormone production starts in the brain, where signals are sent out to the target hormonal gland (e.g. the ovaries, adrenal glands, thyroid, etc.). Once the gland gets the signal, it produces hormones.
Hormones then circulate through the bloodstream to affect our bodies. They eventually make their way into the liver – where they are transformed into different hormonal metabolites that either 1) get excreted in stool or urine, or 2) get recirculated (where they can continue to affect the body).
If hormones are circulated through the bile, they go into the intestines, where they can also be either 1) excreted – through the stool or 2) put back into blood circulation.
That is the life cycle of hormones. That’s all there is to it – nothing more. So, if you want to change the way hormones are affecting you, you have to change 1) the brain, 2) the liver and 3) the gut. It’s really that simple.
At Thrive Naturopathic, we have helped literally thousands of women navigate menopause successfully by addressing these 3 areas. There is a lot of nuance, individuality and some complexity to achieving this, but the basic concepts are very simple – if you can balance your brain/nervous system/stress response, your liver and your gut/microbiome, you will have hormonal balance and have few, if any, menopausal symptoms.
We can show you exactly how to do this and give you the support and structure you need to make these changes happen. The great news is not only will you feel better in your menopausal years, you’ll also improve your fundamental body systems to set yourself up for a long, healthy life!
Metabolic and Mood Changes in Menopause
As a consequence of the changes in sex hormones (e.g. estrogen and progesterone) in menopause, other hormones are affected as well. One in particular – called “cortisol” – can often become out of balance.
This is important because cortisol is a hormone that helps us regulate stress. So, when it becomes elevated in menopausal years, you can feel increased anxiety and inability to deal with stressful situations. Many women also experience brain fog and memory issues.
In addition, chronically elevated cortisol leads to insulin-resistance and weight gain – particularly in the belly area.
This is a common situation – women come into our practice and say they’ve been feeling more anxious and stressed, have brain fog and they’ve also gained weight in the gut area (where they never had carried weight there before). It can be incredibly distressing and confusing.
Fortunately, there are things you can do to bring cortisol back into balance so you can get back to feeling calmer and happier and also lose the belly fat. Changing your diet, the way you move and exercise and also balancing your stress response patterns can accomplish this. There are also poweful natural therapies that help. But it is important to understand that all of these have to be done in a very specific and individualized way. Generic advice about “diet and exercise” are not going to cut it.
At Thrive Naturopathic, we can show you EXACTLY what you need to do to get back to feeling great. We will give you all the structure and support you need to change your life. You have to drive the car, but we will give you the road map to get back to better health.
If you’re tired of feeling out of sorts and you’re through with trying to figure things out with Dr. Google and Chat GPT, let our experienced team guide you back to feeling your best again.
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Frequently Asked Questions About Our Unique Holistic Menopause Approach
How is our holistic menopause care different from standard approaches?
Unlike most medical practices, we get to the root cause of the issue. We don’t mess around with superficial, band-aid solutions. Instead, we help you to change the core areas (both in your life and also your internal immune, nervous system, and hormonal patterns) that are responsible for the way you feel. Symptoms are just a sign that something is imbalanced internally. At Thrive Naturopathic, we get to the root of what is happening with you to help you not only feel better now, but improve your health for the rest of your life.
How soon will I notice changes?
Many people start to notice improvements within the first few months. But it is very important to understand that what we are doing here is helping you change long-standing patterns (both lifestyle patterns and also internal, biological patterns), and this takes time. The whole task will not be accomplished in a few months (even though you will start to see some changes within the first few months). Healing is something that unfolds over time. That is why we only offer programs – where you commit to a certain period of time to work on your health.
The good news is that even though our approach takes longer than just popping a pill, you are BUILDING something that will endure. You are laying the groundwork for better and better health. It is an investment in both your present and your future.
Why You Are Experiencing Menopause Symptoms
The reason you are experiencing menopausal symptoms is because your underlying health patterns were imbalanced long before you got to menopause – even if you weren’t aware. In bringing back true balance, not only will your menopause symptoms improve, but you will set yourself up for better health for the rest of your life. If you want to truly get to the root cause of your symptoms, this is what is required.
Book a Discovery Call with a Thrive Naturopathic Menopause Expert in Alexandria
If you are ready to begin your journey to a more vibrant and healthy you, Thrive Naturopathic will lay out the path to get you back to hormonal balance and vitality! Let us help you get back to living the fulfilling life you know is possible.