September 19, 2008 – 11:24 am
Posted by Leslie
Bioidentical hormone therapy alleviates symptoms caused by menopause and andropause (the male menopause) such as weight gain, memory loss, low libido, mood swings, and can overall help restore youthful vitality to the body.
Boca Raton, FL (PRWEB) September 19, 2008 — Suzanne Somers answers this bioidentical hormone question best in her recently released book, “Breakthrough: […]
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September 18, 2008 – 11:36 am
Posted by Leslie
This important article discusses Hypothryoidism as the culprit behind menopause symptoms not the decrease in hormones (estrogen and progesterone.) Synthetic hormones in BCP’s and HRT’s affect the entire endocrine system of which the thyroid is a part. Not unusaul to think that it is the thyroid that is out of whack after years of menstrual […]
September 13, 2008 – 8:40 am
Posted by Leslie
Hormones increasingly are shown to affect brain functions, and now they may battle MS symptoms, too.
Miller-McCune
Written by Lisa Conti
Lisa Conti trained at the University of California in Santa Barbara as a scientist in the Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Department and worked at UCSB as a post doctoral fellow and project scientist.
When it comes to […]
August 1, 2008 – 11:14 am
Posted by Leslie
ScienceDaily (Aug. 1, 2008) —
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2008, August 1).
University of Illinois researchers report this week that chronic exposure to estradiol, the main estrogen in the body, diminishes some cognitive functions. Rats exposed to a steady dose of estradiol were impaired on tasks involving working memory and response inhibition, the researchers found.
Their report […]
Posted by Leslie
The North American Menopause Society addresses the risk-benefit analysis and therapeutic issues of menopausal hormone therapy.
July 31, 2008
The North American Menopause Society has issued an update to its 2007 recommendations on the use of menopausal hormone therapy in postmenopausal women.
The position statement was created by an advisory panel of women’s health experts in the research […]
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4/17/04
NY Times
By DENISE GRADY
Despite studies in recent years finding that hormone therapy after menopause did women more harm than good, researchers at a group of major medical centers have decided to test the treatment again because they still
suspect it may have benefits, particularly for younger women. The researchers hope to find out whether hormones […]
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Medical News Today
July 7, 2008
It’s an inevitable truth: as we get older, our muscles deteriorate and we become weaker. Not only can this be an immensely frustrating change, but it can also have many other, more serious implications. We become clumsier and begin to have more falls, often resulting in broken bones or even more […]
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FRIDAY, June 13 (HealthDay News) — Having delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS) appears to be linked to irregular menstrual cycles and increased premenstrual symptoms in women, according to a new report.
DSPS occurs when your internal clock is naturally out of sync with real time, so that staying up late and having difficulty waking early is […]
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Posted by Leslie
17:45 11 June 2008
NewScientist.com news service
Ewen Callaway
You might call it our circadian eye. A handful of retina cells sense light, not for vision, but instead to reset our body clocks each day. Killing off these cells in mice leaves their sight unharmed, but throws their clocks out of whack, two new studies show.
Jolting these […]
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Posted by Leslie
If Men Menstruated…
What would happen if suddenly, magically, men could menstruate and women didn’t ?
The answer is clear: menstruation would become an enviable, boast-worthy, masculine event.
Note:
Based on an essay written by Gloria Steinem.
Ms Steinem’s essay originally appeared in the October 1978 issue of Ms. Magazine.
Boys would mark the onset of menses, that longed-for proof of […]
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