Menopause before age 47 significantly increased the risk of osteoporosis, fragility fractures, and premature mortality over the next 30 years, Swedish investigators reported.
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.
Women with osteoporosis suffer early menopause
April 5, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Times of India
ANI, Mar 30, 2011, 03.19pm IST
A study conducted at the University of Granada says that women with osteoporosis in their hip suffer menopause two years earlier than healthy women.
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.
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.
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.
And the Bad News about Hormone Therapies Continues to Accumulate…
October 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
re: Cycling
October 21st, 2010 by Heather Dillaway
Yes, the hormone therapies prescribed for women in perimenopause and beyond have already been suspect. Especially after the initial Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) trial results in 2002 (but even before that), researchers documented the health risks associated with the use of hormones during menopause, especially combination hormone therapies (therapies including estrogen plus progesterone, such as Prempro). SMCR’s Jerilynn Prior has done plenty of work on this as has SMCR’s Paula Derry, and WHI researchers and spokespeople have had to come out about many of the health risks as well.
The Significance Of Progesterone In The Body
October 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Article Directory
By Cecil Pyle
October 17, 2010
Progesterone is a steroid hormone involved in the female menstrual cycle, pregnancy and embryogenesis of humans and other species. Progesterone is naturally produced by the body during reproductive stage. It is essential for the normalization of the menstrual cycle and regulating excessive bleeding. Progesterone is also used for hormone replacement therapy, in birth control pills and progesterone cream.
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