Announced the results of a curious study conducted by a group of experts from the Cancer Research Center. Fred Hutchinson Washington University in collaboration with the Center for the study of gender differences in name.
Doctors and anthropologists have joined forces to figure out how to affect the health of postmenopausal women living in her circle of his children and grandchildren. The obtained results exceeded the expectations of the researchers themselves.
Women, postmenopausal womenWho were able to establish the kind of trust relationship with their adult children already living together with their families, and nursed for a long time playing with their grandchildren, celebrated much less unpleasant symptoms menopause. They almost did not experience the night "tides", difficulty in falling asleep or rise.
Participants of the study were 117 women with menopause. A feature of the menopause such origin is its rapid onset therefore more drastic reduction the concentration of hormones in the blood and is very pronounced and difficult tolerated by patients onset of symptoms menopause.
Over time, research in the subjects evaluated the frequency and intensity of the "hot flashes" and night sweats, 6 and then 12 months after surgery.
It was found that women who lived in the same house with their grandchildren, spent a lot of time with them in games, much less likely to feel "hot flashes", virtually no difficulties with sleep or suffer from heavy night pots.
Researchers have even managed to find the hormonal background of this fact. The fact that the desire of women to care for the kids for a long time associated with the hormone oxytocin, the concentration of which is particularly high in the case, if the woman is nursing regularly young children. Oxytocin, in turn, ensures normal sleep, a stable mood and reduces vegetative symptoms of postmenopausal symptoms. The leaders of this study were quick to point out that while it is necessary to refrain from making any serious generalizations. Flow menopause just as variable and unique as the woman's body is unique, its psycho-emotional state, hormones.
"These data only make scientists to pay more attention to the value of oxytocin in shaping negative menopause manifestations, reserving the possibility to find a way to adjust and reduce the intensity of unpleasant symptoms. " - says one of the study's leaders, Dr. Tierney Lorenz.
