If you can start early?!

Soy, black cohash, green tea.....exercise, breathe, know your own body.

These things did not work for me and I had to take medication to "mask" symptoms until I "qualified" for a procedure. If that's what it takes to function; Do It. Have your health background (AKA mothers, grandmothers, aunts...no wonder they called them "crazy"). However, watch what the repercussions can be. Look out for HRT as recently a friend who was diagnosed with breast cancer feels that it was a factor in her disease. On the other hand, an annual mammogram (even if you are under 40 but having "menopausal" symptoms) can catch it!

Back in my all female HS in the Midwest (70's), we did have a science teacher who introduced the book "Our bodies; Ourselves" (new edition out through Boston Women's Health Book Collective).............know YOUR self..........

and become your BEST self!