Healthy Lifestyle Key For Women To Stay Budget And Happy Ahead Of Menopause

Illustration of a healthy lifestyle. (Freepic)

JAKARTA - Entering the periodiopause period, many women face physical and emotional changes that can affect their quality of life. Hormonic fluctuations often cause weight gain, mood swings, and sleep disorders.

To deal with this phase more comfortably, a healthy lifestyle is the main key, starting from maintaining a diet, strengthening muscles, to managing stress.

A balanced lifestyle not only helps maintain weight, but also supports the health of the heart, metabolism, and mental well-being of women in middle age.

Health expert from the Association of Indonesian Clinical Nutrition Specialists (PDGKI) DKI Jakarta, dr. Ida Gunawan, MS, Sp.G.K, Subsp. K,M, FINEM, advises women who are approaching or who are still far into the menopause to adopt a healthy lifestyle.

He said that a weight gain of about 50 percent in general was one of the impacts on women permenopaus.

"The weight goes up, the mood goes up and down, some are stressed, so the stress eats 10 times," said dr. Ida in a discussion held in Jakarta, as quoted by ANTARA.

Therefore, he suggests adopting a healthy lifestyle by adjusting a diet, paying attention to sleep, and always having a positive mind.

To avoid stress, he suggests being grateful for the current condition and accepting the body as it is.

Menopaus hormone therapy, according to him, can also be done for women under the age of 60 or in the first 10 years after menopause.

This therapy is carried out by considering the health, need for prevention, and patient preferences.

However, dr. Ida emphasized that changing lifestyles to be healthier is a long-term investment for menopause women, and is able to increase the effectiveness of the therapy they undergo.

In addition to weight gain, women during the perimenopausese transition period also experienced an increase in visceral fat from 5'8 percent of total weight to 10'15 percent.

However, not all fats in the body must be removed because there are essential essential essential fats for the function of the body.

However, the visceral fat of fat stored around the organs in the body tends to double during the menopause period, which can lead to insulin resistance.

So the people will get heavier every day. Blood sugar goes up, blood pressure goes up, gout comes and then the heart can also (disruption). And this is what causes the risk of metabolic heart to increase," he said.

In this period, women will also be faced with a decrease in muscle mass. Therefore, he calls for regular muscle exercises to maintain the body's metabolism.

He also suggested that women who enter the transition period of menopause and feel obese should immediately consult with experts to get the right treatment.

"In the past, obesity was not a disease, now obesity is a disease. Treated, don't just leave it alone," he explained.

Efforts to treat obesity, he added, can be done by improving body composition, losing weight, and applying a consistent healthy lifestyle through the assistance of a doctor or nutritionist.