Women's wellbeing: a helping hand from Assist Forte

Over time, women's bodies undergo profound changes.

In adolescence, with the first periods, we begin to deal with hormones, which have an important influence on the female body.

Oestrogen, progesterone and testosterone affect all organs and systems, from the central nervous system to the cardiovascular system, from the immune system to the skin and hair. Over the course of a woman's life, hormonal imbalances and fluctuations are frequent. The level of circulating hormones is not always the same, but is subject to continuous fluctuations that can bring with them a wide range of complaints.

Think, for example, of mastodynia, the pain and feeling of swelling in one or both breasts that often occurs in the premenstrual period. Or of catamenial headache, also known as menstrual migraine, a type of headache that affects women of childbearing age at the time of their periods.

But the complaints caused by hormonal imbalances are not only physical.

Hormonal fluctuations also have psychological consequences. You may have felt more irritable, on edge, in the days before your period. Perhaps you have trouble falling asleep or wake up suddenly in the middle of the night. Almost certainly, if you have experienced the classic symptoms of premenstrual syndrome, you will also have been told at some point "You're so tense. Are you on your period?".

Hearing remarks like this does not make us feel comfortable.

Many women, fearing other people's judgement and generalisation, tend to withdraw into themselves and not express what they feel, which, in truth, is completely normal and physiological.

The transition to the menopause and women's wellbeing at work

Recently, several international research groups have focused on the relationship between work and the menopause. There is also a fact sheet produced by INAIL (the Italian National Institute for Insurance against Accidents at Work) dedicated to working women in the menopause and the healthy lifestyle habits to adopt.

At GD, however, we believe it is important to pay some attention to the phase immediately before it, the perimenopause. It is a time of transition, linked to the progressive and irregular decline in oestrogen, which occurs roughly between the ages of 40 and 45, when women are in the prime of life, still extremely productive, busy with a thousand activities, often juggling work, home, their family of origin and the countless tasks of daily life.

Suddenly, during this phase, the balance that had been achieved seems to break.

Above all, in the workplace, many women start to feel more tired. Usual tasks and deadlines seem to loom over us, as we feel exhausted, without energy. We find it hard to concentrate and focus our attention. Even our memory seems to let us down. We really cannot remember and memorise a procedure or perhaps a name. We feel slowed down. Something escapes us, and not being in control of ourselves causes a sense of discomfort, sometimes a very strong one.

Our relationship with food also changes. Some of us may have sudden hunger pangs and find ourselves opening and closing the fridge continuously, eating between meals without any rules. It is a strong urge, hard to control, which also has heavy consequences for body image and women's self-esteem.

The risk, in fact, is starting to put on weight and no longer feeling good about how we look.

At work, on top of all this there is the impression of not being able to give our best, a marked decrease in our sense of self-efficacy and also the feeling of not getting the right support from colleagues and managers. We feel that we cannot share the load we carry with others, that we cannot count on the understanding of those around us in our daily routine.

Many women undergo hormone replacement therapy to keep these kinds of symptoms under control and overcome the discomfort. But we believe that it is also possible to take another direction to support women's wellbeing, both in daily life and in the workplace.

Help for women in a new phase of life

The menopause is a special time in a woman's life, a phase of transition that propels us towards something new. The fertile years come to an end, but that does not mean that life is over: quite the opposite.

It is an event of change, something that opens the door to a different dimension, not necessarily a worse one, as it may sometimes seem.

This change, as we have seen, often brings with it a whole series of symptoms that have a negative impact on a woman's life.

While the change must be accepted, it is also right and appropriate to take action to relieve the discomfort and feel good again in your changing body.

If you suffer from the discomforts that generally accompany women in adulthood, such as:
- waking up suddenly during the night
- being unable to concentrate
- feeling tired
- feeling a reduced ability to memorise and remember

or if, on reaching the menopause, linked to the sudden but physiological decrease in oestrogen, you find it hard to live with:
- hot flushes,
- heavy sweating,
- insomnia,
- frequent mood swings and nervousness
- emotional hunger

ask your doctor or pharmacist whether the food supplement Assist Forte Retard could help you.

Assist Forte is a natural therapeutic approach, formulated with active ingredients that act on the regulation of hormone levels, which are responsible for the discomforts that girls and women face in their daily lives.

In particular, it contains griffonia, which contributes to body weight control by increasing the feeling of satiety, and helps regulate mood.

It contains melatonin, which improves sleep quality and reduces the time needed to fall asleep, promoting proper rest and counteracting insomnia and irritability.

Verbena helps reduce tiredness and fatigue and increases mental relaxation.

Lutein brings benefits in mastodynia, in menstrual and premenstrual syndrome, in dysmenorrhoea and in endometriosis, relieving their symptoms.

Genistein competes with oestrogen, counteracting and relieving the complaints women experience because of hormonal fluctuations. The mix of vitamins D2, K, B6, B8, PP and iron improves the health of skin, hair, teeth and bones, benefits the mucous membranes and helps strengthen the immune system.

The effectiveness of Assist Forte Retard is supported by university clinical studies.

In September 2020, Progress in Nutrition, a scientific journal dedicated to nutrition and internal medicine, published a pilot study that tested the effect of a four-month treatment with Assist Forte Retard on a sample of volunteers.

The study showed that women who took Assist Forte Retard had statistically significant improvements in:

• Mood
• Sleep disorders
• Menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes, irritability and tiredness
• Eating behaviour (compulsive hunger)
• Sense of self-efficacy
• Perceived workload

In particular, there was an improved perception of one's decision-making abilities, associated with a better ability to cope with the strain of work overload.

Warning

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