The Greatest Story Never Told
USA Today
By Steven Reinberg
HealthDay Updated Jan 29, 2011 1:00 PM
Here’s some good news for women ever bothered by hot flashes and other menopausal symptoms: Your risk for breast cancer may be reduced as much as 50%, researchers from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle report.
Serious side effects are quite rare with natural progesterone cream, making it one of the preferred means of hormone therapy. For a thorough understanding on natural progesterone cream’s side effects, uses, indications and risk factors, it is best to consult a doctor before using it.
Bright Hub
Article by Suzanne Florin
Edited & published by lrohner
January 13, 2011
About Hormone Levels
Progesterone is a naturally occuring female hormone that is produced by the adrenal glands and the corpus luteum of the ovary. This hormone: 1) prevents breast cancer and cancer of the reproductive system by opposing the effects of estrogen; 2) protects women from osteoporosis by stimulating bone building; 3) helps control abnormal menstrual bleeding; 4) enhances hormone balance, as it is a precursor to other steroid hormones, and; 5) helps prevent symptoms of PMS if used during anovulatory months.
Virginia Hopkins Health Watch
HORMONES and RESEARCH: Progesterone and the Brain
Now even brain scientists agree that hormone imbalances are all in your head!
Comments: Progesterone is the new darling of those who study brain chemistry. Research is coming out almost weekly showing how important progesterone is to brain function.
With the increasing data available on the health hazards of HRT, particularly long-term, many more women are considering coming off it but can be unsure of what is involved.
Dr Tony Coope
January 6, 2011 | 1 comment
Since the Women’s Health Initiative study ending in 2002, there has been an increasing number of studies confirming that bio-identical hormones are safer than, and superior to, their synthetic counterparts. I have found that women respond better to them, with far fewer side effects. Many women have no difficulty in deciding against synthetic hormones, either because of their experience of the contraceptive pill, or because of side effects (very common in women with a degree of ‘estrogen dominance’). Others have had no such problems, but are uneasy about the accumulating evidence.
Hormone supplements do not provide the essential micro-nutrients we need to make hormones. They do not detoxify the liver or break down excess hormones.
Suite 101.com
Dec 28, 2010 Sue Visser
People believe that oestrogen dominance is due to a lack of progesterone. Synthetic progesterone and oestrogen analogues that are present in birth control pills and HRT have adverse effects so let us look at natural ways to boost progesterone. The sweet potato has to be one of the easiest, safest and yet potent of all the natural hormone balancers we have. It is a pity the “professionals” keep trying to deny this every time I submit such articles for publication. Men. If they suffered from hot flushes and got breast cancer it would have all been different!
Salon.com
I went cold turkey after recent warnings about cancer. Now my doctor thinks I’m crazy — and sometimes I do, too
By Beth Aviv
November 30, 2010
Meryl and I meet in the hall beside the garbage cans. Our faces are red and glistening. It’s not because the refuse from our kitchens is heavy. It’s not because we walked up the nine flights to our apartments rather than taking the elevator. It’s because we both stopped — cold turkey, as they say — taking our hormone replacement therapy after reading an article in the New York Times. The article warned that HRT, which helps regulate and ease the erratic symptoms of menopause by supplying our bodies with an extra dose of estrogen and progesterone, may not only cause cancer, but may cause a more deadly form of cancer.
Los Angeles Times
By Shari Roan, Los Angeles Times
November 18, 2010|11:47 a.m.
Hormone therapy appears to affect the brain differently depending on the age of the woman when she receives it, researchers reported Thursday.
American Pharmacist’s Association
Posted by Alex Egervary (aegervary@aphanet.org)
November 18, 2010, 1:30 pm
ENDOCRINOLOGIC DISORDERS Frank Pucino, Section Advisor
Key point: According to 11-year mean follow-up data of more than 16,000 women from the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study, women who used combination hormone replacement therapy (HRT) with estrogen and progesterone during the trial were at an increased risk of developing more advanced breast cancers and dying from the disease.
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