Among the isoflavones daidzein can find the glycitein and genistein.

Isoflavones are mainly phytoestrogenic properties (contains natural estrogen) and antioxidants. This means that, logically, their profits are many and very broad:

Fighting the symptoms of menopause such as emotional instability, anxiety, insomnia, hot flushes and excessive sweating (especially at night, contributing to increased insomnia), headaches, nervousness, irritability and depression.
Calcium absorption is favored because its saponins help maintain bone density. Ideal for the prevention of osteoporosis related to menopause. Already many years ago that had been linking soy consumption and lower incidence of osteoporosis in Asian women consuming soy.

Help offset the increased cardiovascular problems of menopause and to decrease levels of total cholesterol and LDL or “bad.”

Its antioxidant action prevents toxins adhere to the cell wall and helps the person was not emaciated rapidly (antioxidants help keep us more healthy, younger).

Anti tumor action (in breast and ovarian) and anti-cancer (especially at the level of prostate, breast and colon).

Improved immune system to produce increased activity of macrophages and white blood cells.

Create a better climate can improve sexual since the tendency to vaginal dryness.

It is studying whether it can prevent Alzheimer’s, especially in postmenopausal women as scientists believe may lower the brain changes associated with this disease.

Greasy hair is due to a mismatch in the sebaceous glands that secrete sebum. This is a natural substance which lubricates and protects hair. It is very necessary, but when in excess, appears in oily hair, which makes it seem heavy and stuck.

The main causes of excess grease, are due to genetic, hormonal changes, periods of stress or fatigue and the use of a shampoo is not suitable for the type of hair, among others.

How to treat oily hair

The first is to choose the right shampoo. There are special shampoos for oily hair, they tend to balance sebaceous glands. It is also recommended you to take a neutral pH shampoo or very mild. It is important that when you wash your hair, use some shampoo, so as not to greatly alter the natural balance of your hair. Ideally, wash it every other day, because if you wash it every day, your hair will want to defend themselves against this aggression and produce more sebum. Also, if you wash it every other day, will eventually get used to produce less fat, keeping it clean longer.

What to avoid

* Occupy baby shampoo
* Hot water
* Wash every day
* Strongly Massage the scalp with your fingers while you brush your hair.
* The hair dryer near the head.
* Brushing repeatedly (this activates the sebaceous glands).

Tips to look beautiful hair

* After applying the shampoo, take the final rinse with cold water.
* Blow dry hair with a towel first and finally with the blow dryer on low heat.
* Add to your shampoo three or four drops of essential oils of lemon, orange or sage.
* Once a week rinse your hair with a mixture prepared with a tablespoon of vinegar, rosemary oil and a squeeze of lemon.
* Use tooth brush, preferably plastic or wood and separated.
* Eat in a healthy and balanced sport and you get enough sleep.

Self Diagnosis

The normal hair, straight or wavy hair is balanced or not suffer significant alterations over time or with the application of chemicals. His appearance has characteristics of: soft to touch, luster, easy to untangle and comb, and does not open at the ends.

Daily care

Wash daily with mild shampoo, rinse thoroughly with warm water and nutritious mask every 15 days.

DRY HAIR

This type of hair increasingly abundant as a result of the dyes, perms, models, use the dryer, the straightening iron and vitamin deficiencies of the current diet. It can also be a dry seasonal, intensive action of the sun. A hair is dry from the organic point of view when the sebaceous glands do their job in an unbalanced way, resulting in poor lubrication of the hair fiber.

How to recognize

They are rough to the touch hair, brittle, dull, with the tips usually divided into two, or “bloom.”

Specific care

We recommend the frequent use of nutrients and moisturizers, from shampoo, to every wash detangling cream and masks to be used as least once a week. During the holidays, it is essential to the use of protective oils during the hours of beach. They create a protective barrier that prevents dryness increase Hair. You must be dried outdoors, as the heat of the dryer increases drying and straw appearance. It is also recommended intakes of vitamins A and E.

GREASY HAIR

The sebaceous glands secrete these hairs excess fat that causes excessive hair lubrication.
The causes are usually:
· Hereditary.
· For hormonal imbalances.
· For nervous system disorders.
· Sometimes, by ingestion of contraceptives.

Sometimes, hair may be temporarily fat due to:

· Exhaustion

· Menstruation

· Anxiety

High or prolonged · Fever

How to recognize

Recognized by oily appearance, with the fibers stuck together. Always look dirty on the adhesion of environmental pollution. The greatest amount of fat appears in the roots, because of its proximity to the scalp, where there are sebaceous glands.

Specific care

Never wash with a shampoo too much detergent, but with one specifically for oily hair, to rectify the excess fat and return balance. You have to wash it as often as necessary, but not massage the scalp, so as not to further activate the sebaceous glands. The products are applied gently with the palm of their hands, circling, without pushing the scalp.
Avoid all kinds of aggression: Brushed, hot water (just warm), cold water, air dryer.

MIXED HAIR

The fat is distributed close to the scalp, leaving the points totally dry.

Specific care

The shampoo is applied in two stages: The first dose is applied to the scalp, massaging the product without pushing too hard, and the second dose applied to the hair shaft and tip, washing them properly. After rinsing in abundance and without massage, place unravel skin creams and nourishing and moisturizing masks along the fiber and the hair ends, making movements that continue to penetrate the long hair out in clumps, carefully avoiding touching or pulling the scalp.

The hair on the scalp is born, has a root through which feeds and a stem (the hair), which grows out of the scalp. Under the scalp the hair bulb is a bulge where the roots penetrate up to five millimeters deep. The bulb is connected with the disc thermal-vital part of hair that works for 24 hours, one or more sebaceous glands and erector. Blood vessels reach the papilla, the link between the hair and the rest of the body, through which it receives oxygen and nourishment. The stem consists of three concentric layers:

• The cuticle
It is the outermost layer and plays a protective role.
This consists of layers of cells and flat corneas, ranging from three to ten layers, superimposed on one another in the form of flakes.

• The cortex
Is the layer that contains 75% of hair, and where is the keratin and melanin.
Keratin is a fibrous protein produced by the root, which depends on the texture and appearance of hair. Melanin is the pigment that gives color to hair.

• The Meulen
It is the center of the stem and is made up of dead cells.

THE LIFE CYCLE OF HAIR

The hair plays in all people and all ages the life cycle: birth, growth and death. When hair is healthy, and 85% is growing, while the remaining 15% is detached. So it is normal to lose between 30 and 60 daily hair fibers. The hair growth is 1 to 1.5 cm. Per month and more rapidly from fifteen to thirty years. His fall or dislodgement increases in autumn and spring.
Healthy hair is strong, elastic and permeable. Permeability (up to 40% of its weight in water) is what allows the penetration of chemicals that allow changes to its appearance and its color.

HAIR AND HEALTH

Both the skin of a person as your hair show their vital status: stress, surgery, alcohol, snuff, comprehensive disease, fatigue, pregnancy, menstruation, drugs ingested on a regular basis, anticoagulants , thyroid hormone, the anti-rheumatic and anti-fungals, and excessive chemical applications on as hair dyes, bleaches, lotions or permanent straightening chemicals, inadequate hygiene, or poor hygiene are factors that tend to weaken the hair, which may have symptoms of dryness, oiliness, difficult to extricate, fall excessive dullness, split ends or flowered, all manifestations of a hair in poor condition.

The power of hair from the blood.
Follow a balanced diet of nutrients is always the foundation of good health, and trace elements are indispensable material for an organic diet is adequate and aesthetically. Trace elements play a key role in the formation of hair. Are inferred to the plants, vegetables, legumes and vitamin complexes. Minerals are also necessary for our hair. We quote the zinc, calcium, manganese, iron.

Testosterone is a male sex hormone, but does grow body hair, mustache and beard, is also the cause-oddly-the loss of head hair. In the scalp, by binding to receptors in hair follicles orders them to stop their function. These follicles do not work continuously but every so often take a break.

In a span of 3 to 5 years ago grow hair, about a 1 cm. per month, is what is called the anagen phase, then starts the transition or catagen and then telogen phase of inactivity or that last approximately three months and during which hair loss occurs, after that the hair follicle returns to its normal activity and begin to develop a new hair.

The one hundred thousand to one hundred and fifty thousand hair follicles containing the scalp does not work at the same pace, some are in the anagen phase, and the other being finalized and the others are at rest, hence the importance of this process to achieve an understanding of the causes and arrive at an effective treatment

Most common causes:

Poor nutrition: It found that a diet deficient in minerals, vitamins and protein is important causal for hair loss, although the symptoms of an inadequate diet are not felt immediately in the hair, it needs a long time to see its effects this, once the reserves are depleted in the body.

PREVENTION:

* Increase your intake of proteins: incorporate or increase the proportion of meals with red meat, white meat and fish. Milk, egg and cheese are also helpful. Soybeans and soy milk can be useful for those who do not eat meat or dairy products.
* Eat more iron and other minerals: chard, lettuce, spinach and other green leafy vegetables are a good supply of iron, and other important minerals for the hair (such as zinc and selenium).
* Take vitamins and amino acid complex: there are special preparations with B vitamins, pantothenic acid and essential amino acids (cysteine, cystine and methionine). One or two tablets daily for three to six months can effectively reverse hair loss.

Stress: Studies show that stress causes hair loss, so the importance of avoiding emotional tension especially in people suffering from hair loss.

Prevention:

* Relaxation techniques to relieve stress and visualization are essential to rebut the damaging effects that produce emotional tension.
* Stressful emotional situations can be treated through psychotherapy and psychoanalysis.
* The topical minoxidil in causes dilation of blood vessels of the scalp in young males with alopecia on the crown of not more than 5 years duration, although its effects are noticeable after a period of 6 to 9 months of use.
* The Aminexil: prevents hair drowning by inhibiting the rigidity of collagen in the root, thus preventing premature aging of the hair. Studies show an increase of up to 5% of the capillary density after six weeks of application.

After menopause. After menopause, women’s ovaries stop producing estrogen. The reduced synthesis of female hormones, comparatively, is equivalent to an increase in androgen production. As a result, it is common for women’s hair tends to thin, weaken and fall at this stage of life.

Prevention:

* The use of estrogen helps restore hormone levels after menopause.
* The use of antiandrogens for a period not less than one year help restore the balance between estrogens and androgens. Also, finasteride blocks the conversion of testosterone into dehydro-testosterone (DHT). This drug has proved effective in both men and women, although the former has found that its use can produce side effects such as decreased libido and reduced number of sperm in men so their use is limited in women shows that the best results occur in postmenopausal stages.

Hair abused: The constant use of hair dryers, electric curlers, dyes, bleaches, prolonged exposure to sun, wind, sea water, chlorine in swimming pools, and even bad hair hygiene are also causes direct thinning of hair, aggression and abuse are causes of their loss.

Prevention:

* Choosing the right shampoo for every hair type and wash it often helps keep it healthy, shiny and easy to comb, conditioners are also effective, the freely dried with a towel and detangle with fingers only prevented from falling.

We need to ask our doctor when hair loss is accompanied by itching, change in texture and color when hair is lost not only hair but also other body parts when the loss is accompanied by fatigue, weakness, nervousness , lack of appetite, loss of concentration, slowed reflexes, dry skin or rough, is that we are facing various tables that may be due to bacterial infections, anemia, symptoms of hyperthyroidism or hypothyroidism, etc.

When is it necessary to resort to surgery?

When we face a healing alopecias box, the result of burns or infections, the same applies in the case of androgenetic alopecia, common baldness in men. In cases like these techniques are used mini grafts and micro grafts consisting of hair transplant in groups of one to four hairs.

Not all pain in the lower back associated with the spine. It could be due to interference in the urinary tract, blood vessels, content, digestion, or osteoporosis. Examination of early helps the healing process faster.

Of bone loss or osteoporosis is a cause of spinal pain. The disease is often called a silent disease that attacks not initially give symptoms or signs of the patient. The pain began to emerge when complications occur.

more susceptible to osteoporosis occur in women than men, more prone to the risk of osteoporosis especially in women who have entered menopause.

This disease is generally marked reduction in bone mass, which becomes brittle and the risk of fractures increases. “The average life expectancy of osteoporosis sufferers also be reduced,”
every person screening or medical examination to determine spine severity. Imagine, if the vulnerability is very heavy, then the risk of other fractures is greater.

Screening also can be started with a simple way, by calculating the reduction of age and weight.

If the reduction is the result of more than 20, then the risk is more severe. In principle, if the low weight, the risk of osteoporosis is increasing. To make sure, you are advised to do a medical examination.

Great pain that sometimes makes people could not even walk. If not treated or prevented as soon as possible, the back bone will be sustainable.

Normally, human bones have thinning bones followed by the formation of new cells in the bone is porous. But in people who have bone disease, which occurs excessive thinning. On the other hand, thinning is not followed by sufficient bone formation to become brittle.

Usually, only one broken bone. If not done osteoporosis therapy, patients experienced continuous vulnerability, which must undergo repeated operations.

“It’s important to do, people see their doctor immediately to ensure that it suffered or osteoporosis or not. Inspection early to avoid the fragility of bone in the future,”

One of the supplements needed to prevent bone fragility with a high calcium milk. However, high calcium milk consumption in women should be at the time before menopause. After menopause, decreased calcium absorption.

The World Health Organization has defined the perimenopause as the period preceding the cessation of menopause, and lasts for a year following the last cycle of spontaneous bleeding. On average, this period has a duration of 3 years.

Still no known biochemical findings that reliably indicate the onset of menopause. However, blood levels of the hormone tend to increase in women who are still menstruating normally about the end of the premenopausal (42-50 years), and there are changes in the rate of secretion and the availability of other hormone, LH. The secretion of estrogen in perimenopause is, meanwhile, variable, and includes intervals of increased secretion, probably caused by increased stimulation by FSH.

The “heat” may precede the onset of anovulatory cycle in perimenopause. Physical symptoms, such as tension in the breasts, irregular menstrual bleeding, “hot flashes”, and dyspareunia (painful intercourse) and emotional symptoms such as disrupted sleep, fatigue, tension, and irritability are regularly present in all menopausal women.

Individual variations in aging female

Even identical twins can have 12 to 14 years of discordance in the age at menopause, although fifty percent of twins are concordant within two years.

Therefore, the aging female reproductive tract depends not only on genetic factors but also. This could arise from non-uniformity between different people in prenatal survival rates of oocytes (cells that give rise to eggs) and follicles, and highlights the importance of the ovarian reserve of oocytes.

In other words, all women do not come into the world with the same amount of potential ova, and this is a factor in the age at onset of menopause: the greater the amount of oocytes, later age of onset of menopause.

The aging of the ovary

Women have a limited, non renewable, oocytes. Therefore, the lower control oocytes is critical in determining the length of the female reproductive life. It is estimated a maximum population of 7 million oocytes, at 20 weeks gestation. Two million persist until birth, and about 400,000 until the onset of puberty. Only 400 oocytes, some are actually ovulated during a woman’s reproductive years. Understanding the mechanisms regulating oocyte depletion is critical to develop strategies to extend the reproductive life, speaking in premature ovarian failure, and preserving gonadal function in women treated with chemotherapy for cancer.

In the preservation or destruction of the oocytes play a pivotal role a group of substances called modulator of apoptosis (esfingomilinasa, ceramide, Bcl-2, Bax protein, etc.).. For example, Bax promotes the “loss” of oocytes by acting on the primordial follicles. The decline of this Bax in experimental conditions, results in a marked expansion in the reproductive life in mice. Furthermore, the gonadotropins (other hormones) rescued more mature follicles, opposing the destruction of other different follicle cells of oocytes, granulosa cells.

Finding drugs that promote the protection follicular could, for example, limiting premature menopause in women receiving chemotherapy.

Hormonal factors in developing breast cancer after menopause

The incidence of breast cancer increases with age. A large study (the National Surgical Adjuvant Breast and Bowel Project) evaluated 13,000 women treated for 5 years with placebo or tamoxifen. Tamoxifen is a drug that acts as an antagonist of estrogen action in breast tissue. Patients receiving tamoxifen achieved an 50% reduction in invasive breast cancer development.

This is because estrogens bind to a receptor on the surface of breast cells, which induces the action of substances called growth factors (GF) and possibly also of genes that stimulate the growth of cancer cells.

However, the clinical data available so far, found no relationship between treatment with growth hormone (HGH) and the development of breast cancer.

Menopause for women mark the end of her reproductive capacity, the “critical age”, but does not occur just at the time of the last menstrual period, but before they appear on a gradual and progressive organic manifestations, such as changing the frequency and duration of menstrual cycle, which account for the change that is taking place at the body. This process involves a psychologically correlate well, there are different emotional reactions such as mood swings, insecurity, fear of the future, sadness, anxiety, depression, and so on.

So far I have mentioned what every woman, minimally informed, know about this very special period of life. The question is: if all women suffer necessarily and inevitably some of these disorders, how to face that change and get that instead of prevailing feelings of loss and emptiness we find new possibilities for personal fulfillment?.

Each person is unique and unrepeatable individuality and the way they respond to life situations is the joint result of several factors: personal (individual story) social and cultural rights. It will not be the same for women that motherhood has made her feelings for disappearing his biological mother can be, for he has put all his energy on family formation, which also usually starts to divide in that time as children leave more independent than for that which has developed other interests. The one that has managed to become a stable partner will be more satisfactory than that contained not have the support of a partner.

From a socio-cultural aspect, an environment in which the “non motherhood is seen as a stigma (and although not explained, this is still very refined), increases the experience of failure in the woman who has not been able they turned their creative potential in other planes beyond the biological.

The relationship of women with your body and how this affects their personal assessment (self), an image “forever young” is another of the many aspects to consider in understanding the situation of each one in particular.

While irreversible evolutionary process, menopause requires each woman (and consequently his psyche), find adaptive resources that allow transit nontraumatic. Alone or with professional counseling, must perform a complex task that involves connecting with itself, its history, accepting loss, draw duels, make their own personal achievements and meet with their creative sides. In a time of balance, the opportunity to evaluate, to learn from the lived, to project what remains to be done …

Not long ago a woman was considered old at 40 years, today we find successful and active women aged 60 and over … You can get back the ability to procreate but not to create, enjoy and love.

2 .- Dry and atrophy of the urinary and genital mucosa: the reduction in the production of estrogen causes the walls of the vagina are weak, fragile, delicate and reduces their natural moisture. This can produce a feeling of itching or dryness, tension or affect sex. They are also frequent urinary incontinence, vaginal infections and urine, dysuria and frequency.

3 .- psychological disorders: These may occur in mood disorders, irritability, insomnia, anxiety, headaches. These symptoms are not due only to the decreased level of estrogen, but also on other factors specific to each individual woman and sociocultural. Women in this stage of life experiencing various losses that are related to the ideals of femininity, such as loss of the ability to be a mother, loss of the maternal role, separation from children in the house. These symptoms can also be experienced in a positive way: the fear of pregnancy disappears, the majority of children do domestic work that is smaller and has more time for other activities.

4 .- Osteoporosis: It consists in the decrease in bone mass. this decline in women is a more abrupt than in men. The most serious consequence of osteoporosis is the weakness of the bones, increasing the risk of fractures. Risk factors for severe osteoporosis are short, thin, consumption of toxic substances (caffeine, snuff, alcohol, etc..), Early menopause, nulliparity, sedentary lifestyle, family history and high frequency of hot flashes.

5 .- Cardiovascular Disorders: Loss of estrogen on the risk of ischemic heart disease, there is an average increase of blood pressure. In general, increasing the LDL (cholesterol aggressor or low density) and lowers HDL (protective cholesterol or high density). During the women’s fertile life is better protected than men, estrogen increases the fraction of the protective cholesterol (HDL). Menopause and the decline of estrogen causes the risk of coronary disease is greater.

Care to reduce the symptoms of menopause:

1 .- To reduce hot flushes and hot flashes : Not too warm, Lower heat, Use cotton clothes, Use the fan, Replace coffee, tea, cola beverages by natural juices, No smoking, Learn to relax, Exercise on a regular basis helps to reduce anxiety, Take plenty of fluids.

2 .- To reduce vaginal dryness : In sexual relations while devoting more time loving (necking) as this will increase vaginal lubrication naturally. Using specific lubricants that are sold in pharmacies, Vaseline or oil.

3 .- To control urinary incontinence : Exercises to strengthen pelvic muscles: When the bladder is empty, try to cut the flow of urine for a few seconds (the muscles are contracted) and then relax. Perform this exercise several times a day.

4 .- To prevent osteoporosis : Physical exercise moderately and regularly, where all the joints work and thus hinders the process of decalcification of bone. A diet rich in calcium, by increasing the intake of dairy products (especially for skimmed not gain weight), some Ca-rich fish such as sardines, anchovies, anchovy, tuna. Healthy diet low in fat and rich in fruits and vegetables. Sun to create enough vitamin D, which is required for proper calcium absorption. Avoid snuff, alcohol and stimulant beverages (coffee, tea and cola drinks) and that interfere with calcium metabolism.

5 .- Preventing psychological disorders : Keep a positive attitude in life. Teach a relaxation technique to reduce stress and anxiety. Using their own chores to relax. Have more time for the couple.
Teach him how to overcome the losses (fertility, loss of roles, leaving the house by the children, lost parents, relatives and friends, etc … The promotion of social relationships (friends, women’s groups, associations), to avoid isolation and loneliness.  Mental health referral if you look at some pathology such as anxiety, stress, etc …

6 .- To prevent the Gynecologic Cancer : Autoexploraciones perform breast.  Annual clinical examination, mammography every two years. Exfoliative cervicovaginal cytology.

7 .- cardiovascular disorders : Fat diet rich in olive oil helps regulate cholesterol. Healthy diet rich in fruits and vegetables. Control of blood pressure to rule out hypertension. Exercise. Hormone replacement therapy.