When Relief is Risky
Luise Light - Jun 29, 2008
Usually between the ages of 45 and 55, women enter menopause and experience accelerated weight gain, fatigue, elevated stress levels, mood swings, and other symptoms from the continuing loss of estrogen from the body. Continue reading »
New Treatment Options
Luise Light - Jun 29, 2008
Bio-identical Hormones
Like the synthetic hormones used in hormone therapy for menopausal women, bio-identical hormones are factory-made or compounded by natural pharmacies to resemble natural estrogen made in women’s bodies. Continue reading »
The Hormone Wars
Luise Light - Jun 27, 2008
Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) Study
A furor broke out in the media and in doctors’ offices In 2002 when the news came out that the most important government study of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) ever undertaken, the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), was stopped midway through the trial because of observations that healthy women in the study who were given HRT were at much greater risk for breast cancer, heart attacks, stroke, and blood clots. Continue reading »