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How Do I Boost Progesterone Naturally?
February 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Livestrong.com
February 2011
Overview
Progesterone is a hormone made naturally by the body that plays a role in the menstrual cycle and helps maintain a pregnancy. If you have low progesterone levels, your doctor may recommend medication to help raise the amount of progesterone in your body. Though synthetic progesterone may be given, there are some natural ways to help increase progesterone. Before using supplements for this purpose, consult with your health care provider or gynecologist to see if these are safe and appropriate in your situation.
See food as fuel to defeat weight gain cycle
January 16, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Daily Progress
Charlottesville, VA
By Zachary M. Bush | Revolution Health Center
Published: January 16, 2011
After two more decades of dieting, you have a 42-year-old woman who weighs 250 pounds and only eats 1,100 calories per day when she is not dieting. When she diets, she eats 600 calories per day. This patient comes to my clinic not for obesity, but for chronic fatigue, depression, insomnia and diffuse pain symptoms. She cries most days; when at work, she feels that she is on the verge of collapse.
Brain Research and Progesterone
January 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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.
Progesterone Pill or Cream?
January 13, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Virginia Hopkins Health Watch
January 2011
Progesterone cream works best for most hormone balancing, but the progesterone pill can be more effective for treating insomnia and catamenial epilepsy.
The hormone progesterone can be delivered to the body via a pill, cream, troche (dissolved in the mouth) injection or vaginally. There are advantages and disadvantages to each delivery system, depending on why it’s being used. Although progesterone cream is the superior delivery method for achieving hormone balance, the progesterone pill (Prometrium) can work better for insomnia and seizures.
How to Come Off HRT
January 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment
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.
Internal body clock controls fat metabolism, UCI study shows
December 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Science Blog
Irvine, Calif., Nov. 15, 2010 — UC Irvine researchers have discovered that circadian rhythms — the internal body clock — regulate fat metabolism. This helps explain why people burn fat more efficiently at certain times of day and could lead to new pharmaceuticals for obesity, diabetes and energy-related illnesses.
The anguish of quitting my hormone drugs
December 1, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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.
Hormone therapy may prevent — or contribute to — dementia risk
November 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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.
Combination HRT associated with increased breast cancer risk, mortality
November 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
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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