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- Male Menopause is Called Andropause
- Hormone Imbalance Symptoms: My Journey
- Male Menopause Is Real
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- Some Facts About Baldness
Archive for the Category: Menopause
DHEA Levels and Menopause
You have probably heard DHEA referenced alot in the news these days. It is being touted as a solution for hot flashes and menopause, among other things. DHEA can certainly help with the symptoms of menopause when in balance with the rest of the hormones in your body.
Also posted in Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy, DHEA, Estrogen, Health, Symptoms of Menopause, Testosterone Tagged Adrenal gland, Dehydroepiandrosterone, DHEA, Estrogen, Health, Hot flash, Menopause, womens health
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Menopause Symptoms and Memory Loss
While you may experience the misery of hot flashes and mood swings as you enter menopause, one thing you can’t blame on the “change” is memory loss. In the latest study that exonerates menopause as a cause of impairing the ability to recall, Taiwanese researchers compared the memory of hundreds of women before they had [...]
The Benefits of Natural Progesterone
In recent years it has been determined that synthetic hormone replacement therapy is not the great answer to menopausal symptoms that we thought it was. In fact, it can be dangerous. There is alot of talk about how hormones affect aging in women.
Also posted in Estrogen, Natural Progesterone Cream, Progesterone Tagged Breast cancer, Cancer, Estrogen, Health, Hormone replacement therapy, Hot flash, Menopause, Progesterone
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Night Sweats: What Causes Them?
The most common causes of insomnia and night sweats are hormonal changes related to menopause. As estrogen declines, the hypothalmus, which regulates body heat, begins to fail. These were my first signs of perimenopause.
Also posted in Health, Symptoms of Menopause Tagged Estrogen, Health, Hormone, Hormone replacement therapy, Hormone therapy, Insomnia, Menopause, Sleep hyperhidrosis
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Male Menopause is Called Andropause
Women don’t corner the market on hormonal decline. Men have a drop off in their hormone levels as well. It may not be as “in your face” as our lovely menopause, but it is just as important to take it seriously!
Also posted in Andropause, Health Tagged Compounding, Health, Hormone, Libido, Menopause, Muscle, Osteoporosis, Testosterone
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Hormone Imbalance Symptoms: My Journey
My journey with the dreaded menopause started over 10 years ago. I know that only in hindsight, because everyone I talked to about it at the time assured me that I was too young for menopause. Silly girl!
Male Menopause Is Real
You may have a man in your life that has been acting a little strange as of late. It could be a phase he is going through called andropause. This is male menopause. Yes, men suffer from menopause just like women do.
Also posted in Andropause, Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy, Testosterone Tagged Andropause, Health, Hot flash, Management, Menopause, Osteoporosis, Testosterone, womens health
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Progesterone Cream: Does it Help?
When the total truth came out about synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT), it sent the medical community into a tizzy. Not only are they divided over the proper way to handle the symptoms of hormone imbalance, but millions of women are left confused about what will help their symptoms and what will cause them health [...]
Also posted in Health, Progesterone Tagged Breast cancer, Estrogen, Health, Hormone, Hormone replacement therapy, Hot flash, Medicine, Suzanne Somers
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The Benefits and Side Effects of Black Cohosh
Black cohosh is a herbal remedy. One of the reasons that women use black cohosh is to curb the discomfort and aggravation of some of the symptoms of menopause.
Also posted in Herbal Remedies for Menopause, Symptoms of Menopause Tagged Actaea racemosa, Constipation, Diarrhea, Health, Hot flash, Menopause, Sleep hyperhidrosis, womens health
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Know about Menopause
You are at that age…you know, the one where you roll your eyes if anyone suggests that you are at “that age”. “That age” is the age of menopause. It is the age when our female reproductive systems begin to shut down, the beginning of hormonal decline.
Also posted in Estrogen, Symptoms of Menopause Tagged Estrogen, Health, Hot flash, Menopause, Menstrual cycle, Osteoporosis, Suzanne Somers, womens health
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Perimenopause: The Beginning of Hormone Imbalance
When I had the last of my four children I was nearly 34 years old. I expected to have many years to get my body back in shape and enjoy life before any signs of menopause came along. But only a few years later, the first signs of perimenopause began.
Also posted in Health, Hypothyroidism, Testosterone, Uncategorized Tagged Health, Hormone, Hot flash, Libido, Menopause, Sleep hyperhidrosis, Weight gain, womens health
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Some Facts About Baldness
Hair loss, more commonly known as baldness, has a variety of causes and treatments. Some causes are specific to a gender. Appearance can also be gender specific as well as treatments for baldness. But it should also be noted that baldness can simply be a product of the aging process.
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Signs of Menopause
The first signs of menopause can come for a woman as early as when she is in her 30′s. Because of the increased hormones in our foods and environment, women are going into the first stage of menopause, known as perimenopause, at a younger age than ever before.
Menopause Supplements
Menopause is the most trying and difficult period in a womans life. It usually occurs to a woman, who is in her late 40s. During menopause, the quantity of female hormones produced reduces significantly. This results in many physical and mental changes in a womans body like loss of calcium, hot flushes, dry skin, itchiness, [...]
Also posted in Symptoms of Menopause Tagged Breast cancer, Cancer, Health, Hormone replacement therapy, Hormone therapy, Hot flash, Menopause, womens health
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Menopause and Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy
Menopause is the time in our lives when our hormones begin to decline. Hormones are crucial to every single function of the human body. Replacing lost or declining hormones is the first step to wellness.
Early Menopause Symptoms
Women today are going through menopause at a younger age than ever before. But women who experience the symptoms of early menopause are still not being diagnosed correctly. Menopause is considered early if a woman enters it before the age of forty.
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Hormone Imbalance
Hormone imbalance is becoming apparent in women as early as their twenties due to the increased hormones we are exposed to in our food, our environment and even in our cosmetics and cleaning products. As a woman ages, hormone imbalance symptoms worsen and may become nearly intolerable for many who suffer from a severe imbalance.
Also posted in Estrogen, Natural Progesterone Cream, Progesterone Tagged Conditions and Diseases, Endometriosis, Estrogen, Health, Menstrual cycle, Progesterone, Sex steroid, womens health
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Why Do I Have Hot Flashes?
The primary sex hormone in women is estrogen. It plays an important role for us as women from puberty all the way through our childbearing years. When our levels of estrogen begin to decline, uncomfortable symptoms like hot flashes start to occur.
Also posted in Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy, Estrogen, Symptoms of Menopause Tagged Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy, Estrogen, FSH, Health, Hormone, Hot flash, Menopause, womens health
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