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Amenorrhea is a disorder in which a woman of childbearing age does not menstruate. Menstruation is regulated by the hypothalamus, a part of the brain that also controls body temperature, appetite, and blood pressure. The hypothalamus as well as the pituitary gland, the ovaries, and the uterus must all be functioning properly in order for a woman to menstruate regularly. Amenorrhea currently affects 2 to 5 percent of all women of childbearing age. Female athletes, especially younger women, are at a higher risk.
How does amenorrhea develop?
There are two types of amenorrhea—primary and secondary. Primary amenorrhea occurs when a woman has not had her first menstrual period by age 16. This is most often due to late puberty, and fairly common among teenage girls who are either very thin or very athletic, and who as a result have abnormally low body fat. In other girls, the delay of menses may be due to Turner's syndrome, a genetic disorder involving the sex chromosomes, or to a developmental abnormality of the female reproductive organs.
Secondary amenorrhea occurs when a woman who has menstruated previously fails to menstruate for six consecutive months in the absence of normal causes such as pregnancy, lactation and menopause. The levels of female reproductive hormones in amenorrheic women are not sufficient to stimulate menstruation. This condition is sometimes associated with malnutrition, such as that which occurs with anorexia nervosa, or with extreme exercise, which puts excessive nutritional as well as other demands on the body and is usually equated with low body fat. An association between stress and amenorrhea has also been established. In addition, amenorrhea may result from potentially serious disorders of the ovaries, the hypothalamus, the pituitary gland or the endocrine system. Prolonged amenorrhea can result in early bone loss and increased risk of osteoporosis. Amenorrhea occurs naturally in women who are breast-feeding. However, under these circumstances bone loss does not occur.
What are the symptoms of amenorrhea?
A lack of menstrual periods is the main symptom associated with the disorder. Additional symptoms, such as headaches, visual loss, weight gain or loss, and galactorrhea, in which lactation occurs in a woman who is neither pregnant nor nursing an infant, depend on the cause of the condition.
Conventional medical treatments may help relieve the symptoms of amenorrhea, but they do not address the root of the problem. By addressing the underlying physiological and nutritional imbalance of the condition, as natural medicine therapies do, amenorrhea can be alleviated permanently.
Discover why we believe that natural medicine treatments are the best way to treat amenorrhea.
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