Bloomberg
By Jef Feeley – May 12, 2011 9:01 PM MT
Pfizer Inc. (PFE), which has settled a third of the pending cases over its Prempro menopause drug, said it set aside $772 million to resolve claims the medicine causes breast cancer.
Menopause: A change for the better…or worse?
April 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
For some of us it’s all hot flushes and depression; to others it’s liberation and a fresh start. Here women explain how the menopause has affected their lives.
MailOnline
By Rosanna Greenstreet
Last updated at 9:27 PM on 9th April 2011
Whoopi Goldberg, 55, actress, divorced with one child
It really is a shock when it hits. There’s no countdown: it’s just ‘boom’. All those years bitching about my period, and when it stopped I was stunned to realise how much my womanhood was tied into it. You just think, ‘I’m hot, I’m sweating, I don’t like it!’ Nothing is good.
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.
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.
Strenuous exercise ‘can damage women’s cognitive function’
January 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
oneindianews.com
Saturday, January 8, 2011, 11:00 [IST]
London, Jan 8 (ANI): A new study has said that strenuous exercise in women can cause damage to their cognitive skills later in life.
Too much exercise raises the levels of oestrogen in a woman’s body and lead to irregular menstruation cycles, reports New Scientist.
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.
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.
Tweaking Estrogen Holds Promise for Some Mental Disorders
November 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Psych Central
By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D. on November 19, 2010
As many people know, estrogen hormones express a yin and yang effect for women.
New research suggests a method by which the beneficial characteristics may be evoked without detrimental risk.
For decades, scientists have realized that estrogen sharpens mental performance and has promise as a treatment for disorders of the brain such as Alzheimer’s disease and schizophrenia. However, long-term estrogen therapy, once prescribed routinely for menopausal women, is now believed by many to increase the risk of cancer, heart disease and stroke.
Hormone Therapy and the Brain
November 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
re: Cycling
November 24, 2010
by Elizabeth Kissling
So there’s a surge today in news stories about how hormone treatment for menopause (popularly known as ‘hormone replacement therapy’ or HRT) benefits the brain, apparently based on publicity over this study published in Hormones and Behavior. In media interviews, the researchers suggest that HT enhances the communication between left and right sides of the brain, making the older women’s brains more similar to those of younger women.
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