As Dancinggirl asks.....your age and cyclical changes if any will determine whether HRT is recommended at this point. Also - you can safely cut all sugar from your diet ( although this would be difficult since they are present in many vegetables!), since carbs metabolise to sugars in the body.
Also I'm a "natural" gaL myself - so the hRT I take is what is known as body-identical ie the same as our body makes - and I adopt a nil-by-mouth approach - so patches and vaginal progesterone - which gets these natural products straight into my body in the most direct way possible. I'm not a great one for supplements - with a good diet and plenty of sunshine, and exercise, provided you don't have absorption or other problems and are not in one of the NHS recommended groups, you should be able to get most of what you need in your diet. Some herbal remedies may have a weak effect in some women but long term safety may not have been studied. I try to remember to take an iron supplement (Floradix liquid) once a week or two, ditto cod liver oil especially in winter, and extra Vit C tabs if I feel a bug coming on
. I took Black Cohosh when I first got flushes and thought they worked but actually it was my own hormones coming into play so when I got deeper into menopause only HRT worked and I threw the Cohosh away! I also ate phyto oestrogen cake and sprinkled ground seeds on my muesli - but the latter gave me the runs and the former made me fat!
