Category Archives: InsomniaThe Irish Times
February 9, 2010
SYLVIA THOMPSON
AN ESTIMATED 260,000 women in Ireland are currently experiencing the menopause. About two-thirds of these women are having regular symptoms including hot flushes, night sweats, mood swings and forgetfulness. Although a completely normal stage in every woman’s life, the menopause is still rarely talked about in public, and even in private it is usually whispered about in moments stolen from other conversations.
The New York Times
By NATASHA SINGER and DUFF WILSON
Published: December 12, 2009
MILLIONS of American women in the 1990s were told they could help their bodies ward off major illness by taking menopausal hormone drugs. Some medical associations said so. Many gynecologists and physicians said so. Respected medical journals said so, too.
Along the way, television commercials positioned hormone drugs as treatments for more than hot flashes and night sweats — just two of the better-known symptoms of menopause, which is technically defined as commencing one year after a woman’s last menstrual cycle.
AJC
Atlanta
SUNDAY, Aug. 9 (HealthDay News)
In an effort to decrease hot flashes, it’s hard to tell someone to take the breast cancer risk and the heart and stroke risk shown in other studies,” said Dr. Vincent Bufalino, a spokesman for the American Heart Association and president and chief executive of Midwest Heart Specialists, in Naperville, Ill. “If you can put up with the menopausal symptoms, you’re better off doing that than taking the risks related to hormone replacement therapy.”
Examiner.com
By Tracy Allerton
West Palm Beach Health and Happiness Examiner
July 8, 2009
For many women, the words “perimenopause” and “menopause” mean one thing: suffering. Common symptoms during these natural stages of life include irregularity, insomnia, moodiness, forgetfulness, hot flashes, night sweats, irritability and even apathy.
These symptoms, which are caused by hormonal imbalances, can be eased using hormone replacement therapies prescribed by your doctor. And many patients certainly find great relief from this course of treatment. However, the risks of such therapies (cancer, heart attacks, etc.), have led some women to seek healthy alternatives.
Health News
By: Jennifer Newell
Published: Monday, 22 June 2009
Acupuncture is one of the oldest forms of healing, originating in ancient Chinese culture as a way to touch upon vital points in the body to energize and heal. The process has been embraced by most cultures in the modern world and is commonly used as a form of healing by specialists from all walks of the medical and health profession.
The process is rather simple, as thin needles with tiny, round ends are inserted into various points of the body and massaged in a particular way, sometimes by twirling or gently thrusting, in order to invigorate or change the life energy —or chi —of the body. Believers in the practice attest to its ability to heal diseases and medical conditions—even emotional or psychological disorders—by manipulating the chi to the body’s natural order, which essentially heals the entire body as well as the problem area(s).
Backgonize
Posted by admin on May 31st, 2009 in Womens Health.
Do women going through menopause have lowered levels of progesterone?
Recent research tells us that women do suffer from decreased levels of progesterone and also experience other symptoms such as unexplained weight gain (particularly in the stomach area), depression, fatigue, hair loss, memory loss, mood swings, migraines and loss of libido. A natural cream can balance estrogens without side effects.
Progesterone and estrogen are the two main hormones made by women’s ovaries when they are menstruating. Smaller amounts of these hormones are also secreted by the adrenal glands. It’s necessary for the survival of the fertilized ovum, its embryo as well as the fetus during gestation.
Health Advice for Common Problems
What is it? Estrogen is is the name of a group of hormones. There are three principle forms of estrogen found in the human body: estrone, estradiol and estriol (also known as E1, E2 and E3, respectively).
Estradiol is the primary estrogen produced by the ovaries. Estrone is formed from estradiol; it is a weak estrogen, and is the most abundant estrogen found in the body after menopause. Estriol is produced in large amounts during pregnancy, and is a breakdown product of estradiol. Estriol is also a weak estrogen and is the primary form of estrogen used to treat vaginal dryness, hot flashes and night sweats. However, artificial estrogen has been found to cause multiple serious health problems, so only natural estrogen should be used for supplementation when needed.
Synthetic hormones have been created and are used in this modern day. It is the popular thinking of this day and age that synthetics are used because a human body is incapable of using natural substances to create the hormones it needs – but look at how long mankind has survived with natural substances from mother earth compared to the problems that synthetics cause.
The hormone that is next to follow in lessened amounts is estrogen which is marked by hot flashes and vaginal dryness that can last three years or more. The next hormone that gradually reduces is testosterone which is the one that gives you strength, muscle tone and your sex drive.
Melatonin is the sleep inducing hormone, but it does so much more. The whole day and night rhythm has it’s importance for the proper functioning and recovering of our body systems, and a regular sleep and wake cycle is more important than we used to believe.
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