HOW TO EASE BLOATING

Sure ways to reduce bloating Bloating is the condition of your belly feeling swollen after eating. It is usually caused by excess gas production, and /or disturbances in the movement of the muscles of the digestive system. This can cause increased pressure and discomfort, and can sometimes make the stomach look bigger. The effect can be quite extreme in certain cases, and some have even used the term “food baby.” Put simply, bloating involves excessive amounts of solids, liquids or gas in your digestive system. However, in some people, bloating is caused mostly by increased sensitivity. It just feels as if there is increased pressure in the abdomen, even though there isn’t. About 16-30 percent of people report that they regularly experience bloating, so this is very common. Bloating can often cause pain, discomfort and a “stuffed” feeling, but it can also make you look heavier and give the perception of large amounts of belly fat. Although bloating is sometimes caused by serious medical conditions, it is most often caused by the diet and some foods or ingredients you are intolerant to. Here are proven ways to reduce or eliminate bloating. Don’t eat too much at a time Being stuffed can feel like being bloated, but the problem is that you simply ate too much. If you’re eating big meals and tend to feel uncomfortable afterwards, then try smaller portions. Add another daily meal if necessary. Subsets of people who experience bloating don’t really have an enlarged stomach or increased pressure in the abdomen. The issue is mostly sensory. A person with a tendency to be bloated will experience discomfort from a smaller amount of food than a person who really feels bloated.

GOOD SLEEPING CONDITION AND NIGHT TIME

Getting a Good night sleep (1) If you are one of these women aged 40 and over who find it difficult to sleep, knows you are not alone. Many women wake up every night between 12 mid night and 4 am and start prowling around the house. In frustration you may begin pacing the house, cleaning the kitchen floor, surfing the internet or watching CNN or movies on late night TV. Getting good nights sleep becomes more and more difficult as we age, but women in menopause find it particularly difficult to get good sleep. In many cases this inability to sleep is due to too much estrogen in your system that is not balanced by progesterone. Before menopause, estrogen is the dominant hormone for about the first two weeks in the menstrual cycle and progesterone is dominant in the last two weeks of the cycle. When menopause occurs naturally these two hormones should continue to balance each other, but if you are a woman at menopause leading a stressful lifestyle, you may find that your production of progesterone is suppressed and or converted to stress hormones and you will have a dominance of estrogen in your system leading to sleeplessness and other unpleasant menopausal symptoms. Using a little progesterone cream made from natural bio identical plant sources may help you easily solve this problem. The right way to use progesterone cream or oil is to use about 1/8 to ¼ of a teaspoon daily for three weeks out of the month, with a week off each month to maintain sensitivity of the progesterone receptors. Natural progesterone cream made from bio identical plant sources is not the same as the synthetic hormone progestin, which is made from animal sources. I know of some women who have not slept for longer than four hours since they started menopause. When they were given some progesterone cream they reported that they were able to sleep for eight hours. This was a major turning point in their recovery from a long list of menopausal and health problems. If it’s not hormones, what is it? If after taking progesterone cream you still cannot sleep, then you need to look for other causes. Of sleeplessness is food intolerance or allergies. Most people will have a high spike in blood sugar levels after eating or drinking something sweet. This is fine during the day but eating sugary foods at bedtime will lead to a hypoglycemia episode 90 minutes later that will result in a surge of adrenaline that will keep you awake for several hours. Eating cheese close to the time of going to bed may also keep some people awake. Many cheeses have high amounts of tyrosine, which is used to make noradrenalin which is used to make noradrenalin which is a stimulant made by our adrenal gland. If you after from chronic insomnia it is a good idea to keep a food diary of the food you eat so that you can correlate foods eaten and the quality of your sleep each night. This way you can begin to have a better sense of foods that help you to sleep and those that pump up your system to keep you tossing and turning all night. The liver does its job of digesting your food between 1am and 3am. If you eat anything that it finds difficult to digest then you will likely be waking up around this time. Eating late may also cause insomnia for this reason. Try to eat not later than 6pm so that your food would have had time to digest before you sleep. Drugs are not the answer to insomnia and may be the cause Have you noticed that when you have a cold or cough and you take cold and allergy medications at night you are unable to sleep? Many of these drugs can cause insomnia even when they claim to be nighttime brands, with a sleeping aid designed to help you sleep. Many prescription and over the –counter drugs can also cause sleeplessness. These include antidepressants, asthma medications, painkillers, some of the heart drugs, and thyroid medication. You need these medications so you cannot stop taking them, however, you can change the time you take them. Try taking these medications in the morning and early afternoon and see if that helps you to sleep better. If you have high blood pressure and you have been put on diuretic drugs twice a day, you might be up and down all night to urinate. Reducing the dose and changing the dosage times to avoid taking it in the evening might also help you considerably. If you’re tossing and turning at night, visit your pharmacist and ask for the information inserts for any drugs you’re taking, buy a magnifying glass, and read them. If insomnia is listed as a possible side effect, talk to your doctor, and don’t accept a sleeping pill as a solution! Taking the drug at a different time during the day, or taking a lower dose, will often solve the problem. Taking sleeping pills bought over the counter or from a doctor on prescription and other anti-anxiety drugs will make you develop an unhealthy dependency on the drugs, and make you feel woozy and tired during the day. Taking sleeping pills are almost never the answer to insomnia. If you must take them make sure they are taken only temporarily and are a stopgap measure. The best thing to do is to find out what is causing your sleepless nights.