Are you experiencing the side effects of menopause? Here is a spice to integrate into your menus or your routine to improve your well-being.
There menopause is a hormonal upheaval that impacts women’s lives on many more levels than just stopping menstruation. With the drop in estrogen levels, life is impacted by adverse effects. If the symptoms of menopause may vary from woman to woman, hot flashes remain one of the most common annoyances, along with mood swings, increased stress and sleep disturbance. To this is sometimes added a localized weight gain in the stomach or hips and even the disturbance of desire. Fortunately, when you do not want to take hormone treatment to avoid them, certain foods can help us regulate these disorders caused by menopause. A short time ago, you were presented with a dried fruit that limits the undesirable effects of menopause, but a rare spice would also be a great support to suffer them less.
The Burgerstein Foundation, which has been interested in the properties, functions and effects of micronutrients (vitamins, trace elements and minerals) for more than 30 years, explains it in a study dedicated to saffron : “The catch of saffron is known to be beneficial for both mental and physical health. Recent studies have just examined its effectiveness in the common menopause-related disorders of hot flashes and sleep disturbances”.
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Menopause: what are the proven benefits of saffron?
If antidepressants work to reduce menopausal hot flashes, saffron is proving to be a very effective natural therapeutic approach. According to the Burgerstein Foundation study which tested the effectiveness of saffron extract in a group of 60 post-menopausal women, prone to hot flushes and depressive episodes, taking saffron leads to “an improvement in hot flashes and depressive symptoms after two weeks” grip only. Also according to her, several clinical studies have also been able to demonstrate its antidepressant effect.
After a test on a group of 120 adults suffering from sleep disorders of which 70% were women aged 52 on average, it was proven that taking saffron extract offered a marked improvement in the quality of sleep and mood upon waking.
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Hot flashes, sleep disorders: how to consume saffron during menopause?
The study also provides details on how to take saffron on a daily basis depending on the problem to be solved. If you are prone to mood swings and hot flashes, experts recommend taking saffron”twice a day”. If you are more looking to regulate your sleep problems, “a recent study shows that taking saffron daily in the evening is beneficial” to improve sleep quality in postmenopausal women.