Expert explains:

How to avoid the “hell” of the menopause

30 percent of all women struggle with severe symptoms during the menopause.

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The uncanny power of hormones! What do they do to our psyche, how do they control our body and is there anything that helps to avoid hot flushes, sleep disorders and memory fog? The "Krone" interviewed an expert and is surprised how easy it is to declare war on hormone deficiency.

Sweating, hot flushes, insomnia! "Well, unfortunately you have to go through that. It's completely normal" - this is the unsatisfactory statement made by many doctors. But it's not true. Especially during the menopause, with all its symptoms, you can find a remedy. "If you go into a drugstore today, you will find 27 mascaras and 28 body lotions, but nobody is interested in informing women about the consequences for them, for morbidity and mortality, of living half their lives with hardly any hormones. Very few doctors are concerned with hormone replacement therapy. Why? It is not taught. So menopausal women are not informed and not educated," Doris Steiger-Bauer shakes her head.