(HealthDay News) -- An easy-to-learn meditation technique can help ease the hot flashes, night sweats and insomnia of menopause, a new study says.<\/p>
The University of Massachusetts research showed that mindfulness training, based on a Buddhist meditation concept, reduced the distress associated with hot flashes and improved physical, psychosocial and sexual functioning.<\/p>
\"The findings are important because hormone replacement therapy, used to treat menopause symptoms in the past, has been associated with health risks,\" said study author James Carmody, an associate professor of medicine in the division of preventive and behavioral medicine.<\/p>
About 40 percent of menopausal women suffer from hot flashes and night sweats, which undermine their quality of life, the researchers noted. But since hormone replacement therapy has been linked with an increased risk of heart disease, breast cancer and stroke, Carmody observed that \"not only are women looking for alternative treatments, it is an NIH (National Institutes of Health) priority to find behavioral treatments Read more...<\/a> (HealthDay News) -- An easy-to-learn meditation technique can help ease the hot flashes, night sweats and insomnia of menopause, a new study says.The University of Massachusetts research showed that mindfulness training, based on a Buddhist meditation concept, reduced the distress … Continue reading
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