WE ALL KNOW TOO much stress can be harmful to our health. How you manage – or don’t manage – the stresses and strains of life can have a knock-on effect on how you experience menopause. From an ayurvedic perspective, there needs to be as much emphasis on reducing stress at this time of life as there is on balancing hormones. This makes sense when you think that the stress response is also managed by hormones, such as adrenalin and cortisol. When you’re stressed, your body’s resources, which should be used for producing sex hormones such as oestrogen, are diverted towards making stress hormones. And to make things worse, the surge
