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Posted in Endocrine Health, General, Hormone Replacement, Menopause on Sep 28th, 2023
An estimated 6,000 US women daily and more than 2 million women yearly reach menopause, and that does not include perimenopausal women. The US population aged 65 and over grew nearly five times faster than the total population over the century from 1920 to 2000 according to the 2020 US Census. This group is now […]
Posted in Endocrine Health, General, Menopause, Mind and Emotional, Stress on Aug 21st, 2023
The negative effects of a history of childhood abuse are related to mental illness, cardiovascular disease, premature mortality and other chronic illnesses in adulthood and reported in multiple studies across the span of the last twenty plus years. How childhood mistreatment relates to the menopause transition is less explored. The recent study tested whether childhood […]
Posted in General, Hormone Replacement, Menopause, Mind and Emotional on Jul 12th, 2023
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is twice as common in women than in men. This issue of menopause and menopausal hormone therapy has garnered quite a lot of attention over the last 10-20 years in particular. Does menopausal hormone therapy(MHT) increase risk of AD or decrease risk or in some and not others based on other factors? […]
Posted in Cardiovascular, General, Menopause on Apr 2nd, 2023
Despite our tendency to think that breast cancer is the number one threat of women, cardiovascular disease remains the leading cause of death in U.S. women. In 2019, women in the U.S. were 74% less likely to recognize cardiovascular disease (CVD) as their top mortality issue than in 2009. Even primary care physicians and cardiologists […]
Posted in Breast Cancer Prevention, Cancer Prevention, General, Menopause, Prevention on Feb 21st, 2023
The most common cancer in women second to skin cancer, is breast cancer, both in the U.S. and worldwide. In 2021, the US experienced an estimated 281,500 new diagnoses of invasive breast cancer and an additional 49,290 cases of in situ breast lesions. Reliable estimates demonstrate that that at least one third of breast cancer […]
Posted in Botanicals, Dietary Supplements, General, Menopause, Urinary Incontinence on Dec 15th, 2022
Overactive bladder, also called OAB causes frequent and sudden desire to urinate and can be difficult to control, leading to urinary leakage, a.k.a. urge incontinence (UI), and nocturia (waking up more than two times in the night to urinate). It also is associated with frequency of urination day and night. Frequent urination is usually eight […]
Posted in Endocrine Health, General, Menopause, Weight Management on Apr 18th, 2022
Uterine fibroids are the most common benign tumor of the uterus and their incidence increases over the reproductive years until menopause. Uterine fibroid tissue is made up of smooth muscle cells in the myometrium and are hormonally dependent on estrogen and progesterone and because of this, are the most symptomatic in the years prior to […]
Posted in Botanicals, Dietary Supplements, Endocrine Health, Menopause, Stress on Aug 25th, 2021
Hot flashes and/or night sweats, collectively called vasomotor symptoms (VMS), are the most common symptom of perimenopause/menopause. The average duration of VMS is about 7 years, so more options to address this frequently significant symptom, are always welcomed. While VMS can come in all sizes and shapes, varying from mild to severe and infrequent to […]
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