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Dealing With Fertility Problems Through Yoga

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Category : Womens Issues

Trying to conceive fills any women with innumerable anxieties and emotional stress, especially if the trying is coupled with fertility treatments or IVF. Increasingly, physicians are endorsing yoga, combined with the medical treatment. This is to help relieve their stresses, and at the same time, boost their chances at conceiving.

A Harvard research shows a greater number of odds, at least three times more, favoring those whose fertility treatments are boosted by yoga done in sync with the treatments”.

What does yoga have to do with priming up the woman’s body to conceive and get pregnant?

Stress is a given negative that a childless couple has to confront and overcome, or at least live with. Stress can disrupt a woman’s regular cycles so as to cause a hindrance to ovulation in women and sperm production and/or motility for the men. Yoga, thus, serves as emotional release, that enables relief of anxiety and stress, presenting more chances of pregnancy.

Regular performance of yoga can:

1) increase the couple’s development towards each other
2) reinforce and intensify their relationship, and
3) grant them the capacity to jointly deal with the pressure of attempting to conceive a baby.

Yoga courses directed at fertility enhancement assist a woman’s capacity to conceive in other ways. There are postures that are concentrated on enhancing the flow of energy in the second chakra, the “seat of creation,” the area where the reproductive organs are located. Other touch up postures help set up the body for procreation. These help relax the abdominal region, eliminating tension from the area of the ovaries,uterus and fallopian tubes. Postures that are done lying down lengthen that area, letting in more blood to course to the organs of reproduction.

Yoga has some postures that are particularly applicable to women after intercourse that will raise her chances to conceive. Among the popular ones is the “Viparita Kirani” where legs are put up the wall. This guarantees the sperm to stay in the best position for fertilization for as long as can be.

Finally, yoga can correct erratic hormonal levels which may be the reason for the infertility. Some yoga postures enhance the operation of the glands, which are the aids to stabilize hormone levels.

There is no one single report that Yoga, by itself, can promote pregnancy. Although consistent performance of fertility-concentrated poses brings down stress and anxieties at conception attempts.

Integrating fertility-directed Yoga with medical therapy does indeed prime up the body and mind to conceiving and raise chances of conceiving that long-awaited baby.

Women’s Health News

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Category : News

USA TODAY Publishes Fresh: Women’s Health Guide

MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 28 /PRNewswire/ — USA TODAY announces the availability of Fresh: Women’s Health Guide, the first women’s health glossy publication from USA TODAY’s Your Life. From advice on how to get a good night’s sleep to how to live healthy and spend less, this resource has you covered. The best foods for health, the best gear for your workouts, and the best advice when it comes to feeling your best are all included.

This special publication includes:
Soccer star Brandi Chastain talks about how to stay fit and healthy over 40
61 ways to live healthy and spend less
HGTV’s David Bromstad offers tips on making a room pop without spending a fortune
An interview with the Surgeon General on how to become a healthier nation
Special breast cancer section—ways to fight back now

Fresh: Women’s Health Guide is available at newsstands nationally for $7.99. It can also be ordered online at fresh2010.usatoday.com.

USA TODAY is a multi-platform news and information media company. Founded in 1982, USA TODAY’s mission is to serve as a forum for better understanding and unity to help make the USA truly one nation. Today, through its newspaper, website and mobile platforms, USA TODAY connects readers and engages the national conversation. USA TODAY, the nation’s number one newspaper in print circulation with an average of more than 1.8 million daily, and USATODAY.com, an award-winning newspaper website launched in 1995, reach a combined 5.9 million readers daily. USA TODAY is a leader in mobile applications with more than five million downloads on mobile devices. The USA TODAY brand also includes USA TODAY Education and USA TODAY Sports Weekly. USA TODAY is owned by Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE: GCI).

FAIR PARK: Women’s Health Fair to be held at Fair Park

Fair Park Senior Center and Cumberland Medical Center will be hoisting a mini health fair on Wednesday, Sept. 29, in conjunction of Women’s Health and Fitness Day. Free health screenings will be available with physicians and health professionals available on hand to answer questions.

Linda Hassler, diabetes educator, with CMC Wellness Center, will provide glucose testing. Dee Dee Barnwell gets you rocking, as she teaches Rocking to the Oldies chair exercises.

Many people have sleep apnea problems in breathing, and may not know it. Patrick Graham, with CMC Medical Supply, will be contacting pulse oximetry screening with Cpap and Bipap education for women. This is a check with a mask to evaluate air passageways for better breathing. CMC Medical Equipment has a complete line of home medical supplies.

Blood pressure readings will be available by Cindy Cravens, with CMC Home Health. CMC’s latest expansion, the Physical Rehabilitation Unit, will be represented by Phyllis Hall. Services include physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and sports medicine.

Larry Meads with Physical Medicine will be available to answer questions on the latest medications used in the recovery process.

Refreshments will also be available.

Between 9 a.m. and noon, flu shots will be offered to Cumberland County seniors sponsored by Walgreen Pharmacy. Bring your Medicare card (without Medicare the cost is $29.99).

Fair Park Senior Center encourages seniors to be informed, active and connected! The center is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. You can also visit the center’s website at http://www.fairparkseniorcenter.org to keep up-to-date on the latest programs and activities that are being offered, as well as online versions of the center’s monthly newsletter “Newsline.”

Home Remedies for Menstrual Problems

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Category : Menstrual Problems

Menstruation is the monthly discharge of blood from the uterus of non- pregnant women. The fertility of women is totally dependent on the normal menstrual cycles. Female sex hormones like estrogen and progesterone control the menstruation cycle and help in the normal functioning of the reproductive organs. Problems in menstruation arise with excessive bleeding, pain and cramps in the uterus, irregular menstrual cycles etc. These problems in general do not pose any threat to the fertility of the women, but causes extreme discomfort to carry out regular activities. Problems in menstruation are most troublesome at the onset of puberty when the body starts adjusting to the hormonal fluctuations and subsides gradually in due course of time.

Symptoms

Menstrual problems are diagnosed by the following symptoms -

1. Excessive bleeding resulting in weakness of the body.
2. Moderate to severe pain in the lower abdomen.
3. Anemia
4. Loss of appetite.
5. Nausea and vomiting

Causes

Menstrual problems are mainly caused due to the fluctuation of the levels of estrogen and progesterone hormones, secreted from the ovaries. Deficiency of calcium in blood and severe anemia are other contributing factors to this problem. Cysts and fibroids in uterus also cause menstrual problems.

Home Remedies

Home remedies are very effective in treating menstrual problems, and these have been practiced through generations.

1. Ginger is a common kitchen herb that is very effective in treating this problems. Drinking the decoction of ginger adding little sugar, thrice a day provides relief from menstrual problems.

2. Drinking juice of parsley leaves helps in treating this problem. Juice from carrot, beet, cucumber and parsley also help in reducing the menstrual cramps.

3. Eating cooked banana flowers with curd reduces the menstrual bleeding.

4. Drink prepared by boiling 2 teaspoonfuls of dried safflower seeds in 120 ml. of water is highly effective in this treatment.

5. Drinking a decoction coriander seeds in water treats excessive bleeding during menstruation.

6. Drinking a glass of milk, adding half teaspoon of cinnamon powder helps n reducing menstrual cramps.

7. In a cup of hot water, add half teaspoon of powdered sesame seeds and drink it twice daily. This treatment provides relief from spasmodic pains during menstruation.

8. Juice from the bark of the mango tree produces wondrous results in treating menstrual problems. A mixture is prepared by adding 10 ml of the juice in 120 ml of water. A teaspoonful of this mixture should be given to the patient in every alternate hour.

9. Drinking a decoction prepared by boiling 15 grams of Rough Chaff in one-fourth liter water is very useful in treating menstrual problems.