Vitamin E can help hot flashes, and it's natural aspirin-like effect can relieve leg cramps. When taken regularly, vitamin E can help improve your general sense of well being. Calcium is needed because menopause greatly affect your body's ability to use calcium. Decreasing estrogen lowers your available supply of calcium. That's why osteoporosis is more likely in postmenopausal women.
Exercise is essential.
It helps your mental outlook, can boost your immunity, gives you energy, strengthens your bones, helps fight heart disease, and makes you look great. Stay sexually active. Use it or lose it, as the saying goes. Women who continue having sex during menopause have fewer problems, and have a better outlook in general. Use a water-soluble lubricant and avoid petroleum jelly.