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FDA Takes Action Against Compounded HRT Drugs â What It Means To You
In a blow to certain drug makers, the FDA has sent letters warning seven pharmacy operations that the claims they make about the safety and effectiveness of their so-called "bio-identical hormone replacement therapy," or "BHRT" products are unsupported by medical evidence, and are considered false and misleading by the agency. According to the FDA, they are concerned that unfounded claims like these mislead women and health care professionals.nBioidentical hormones are custom
January 17, 2008
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Is It Perimenopause, Or Are You Just Getting Older?
One of the biggest problems with delineating perimenopause and menopausal symptoms is that there are usually so many other things happening at this stage in your life. As a result, itâs not so easy for most women (or health professionals for that matter) to figure our what causes what. Consider how many life changes that occur at middle age: your parents become ill and die, your children leave home, gravity starts to take itâs toll on your body, wrinkles begin appearing,
January 2, 2008
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Menopause & The Holidays - Why âWineâ About It?
So, here we are again. The holiday season is upon us and we have preparations to make. One would think weâd get better at getting ready for them each year, but we donât.nnYouâve gone shopping to purchase that special dress or stylish pantsuit for those special occasions, like the arrival of your friends and relatives or the office party.nnYouâve been to the grocery store to meander through the aisles noticing the holiday recipes displayed throughout, and buying things
November 28, 2007
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Relieve Your Menopause Symptoms By Eating Right
If youâre experiencing menopause, then you probably remember a television commercial a few years back; (ok ⦠maybe more than a few years back); that asked the burning question, âWho made the salad?â The family sat around the dinner table about to begin their meal. Someone would ask that all important question, and after everyone would look inquiringly at the rest of the family, the salad dressing that the commercial was promoting was then prominently displayed, and th
November 14, 2007
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Cool Facts About Heating Up - The Menopause Hot Flash
There it goes again! Another unannounced hot flash!nnWithout a prescription or an expensive trip to your OB/GYN, there are some options a woman can appropriate to try to keep hot flashes at bay, or at the least, minimize their intensity and frequency. So the next time you find yourself revisited by the heat demon, you might want to consider one or all of them. Look at it this way. What have you got to lose? ⦠Except maybe the time it takes to change into drier clothes, a qu
October 29, 2007
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Three Paths To Menopause Relief - Which One Is Right For You?
We've talked about all the various 35 menopausal symptoms that you may experience, as well as the health implications of various treatments. Having said that, let's face it -most women don't need to know about treating each and every possible symptom, they want to know how to treat the symptoms they are experiencing RIGHT NOW. You may want to simply know how to get a good night's sleep. You may need those irritating hot flashes to simply be gone by the time you get on that pl
October 26, 2007
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Menopause : Nature Or illness?
It's something we've all seen before. From puberty to childbirth, the medical profession does it's very best to "medicalize" each and every condition that it possibly can. How many young women are being placed on birth control pills during puberty to "regulate" their cycles, even though though their cycles are supposed to be irregular during that point in their lives? nn Even childbirth was once considered a perfectly natural event. Sometime during our grandmother's time, chi
October 26, 2007
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Yet Another Hot Night - The Menopause Hot Flash
Youâve waited for this evening for weeks. Finally you and your husband have the time and a few dollars to go out for the night to spend some romantic time together. The grown kids are now gone off to college, married, or are chasing their promising career and the house is essentially empty. No longer do you hear the calls of, âMom, I canât find myâ¦â, âDid you wash myâ¦â, or âWhatâs for supper? Iâm starved!â Those days are gone.nnInstead you hear the pho
October 25, 2007
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Menopause - You Are What You Eat!
Did you know that Japanese women tend to suffer hot flashes only about 1/3 as often as American women? Or that those following a vegetarian diet also complain of hot flashes far less than the rest of us? Of course, you donât have to give up the steaks just yet â but doctors and nutritional professionals suspect that the difference is largely due to the use of soy products in the diets of these women, and several women have now realized that by incorporating some soy in th
October 16, 2007
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Changes During a Women's Menopause
As baby boomers move into midlife, a womanâs menopause does not have quite the alarming effect that it did some years ago. However, it remains a time of change in her life, as the ovaries start shutting down causing hormones to fluctuate. When this occurs, her childbearing years come to an end. A womanâs menopause is a perfectly normal process that occurs over several years, but the physical and emotional changes associated with this âchange of lifeâ will vary from wo
August 3, 2005
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Mumâs The Word â What Your Mother Would Rather Not Tell You
Copyright © 2005 Dawn M. Olsen. All Rights reservednnLetâs talk frankly, but sincerely, about what happens to your vagina and surrounding feminine parts during menopause. There are two key changes in the body that, for many women, cause a variety of sexual problems, including inability to properly lubricate, pain or discomfort during intercourse, increased urinary tract infections, and for some, urine leakage, especially when laughing, sneezing, or crying.nnNot too pleasan
July 26, 2005
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Dealing with the Blues: Your Mental State and Menopause
Going through menopause and suddenly feel like lifeâs stresses have just become a thousand times more difficult to deal with? Find yourself crying at Oprah more than you used to, or worse, crying at reruns of the Flintstones? Finding that your cute 3-year-old nephew or granddaughter is suddenly⦠well⦠a little childish, making you irritable? Finding yourself depressed?nnYouâre not alone, and itâs not just a case of the blues. Menopause alters your core body chemistr
July 24, 2005