Postmenopausal hormone therapy and ovarian cancer- again!
Women with moderate to severe menopause symptoms often consider hormone therapy to help ease them through various problems like hot flashes (flushes), night sweats and sore/tender breasts and nipples amongst others. If you’re considering this, the usual advice is to weigh the advantages and disadvantages before starting HRT (hormone replacement therapy). New research published in [...]
Mammograms Not Improved By Pausing Hormone Therapy
Post-menopausal women on hormone replacement are usually advised to stop taking their hormone therapy for 1-2 months before they have a mammogram to screen for breast cancer based on research that suggested that this would improve the quality of the mammogram. Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) makes the breast tissue appear more dense (thicker) so that [...]
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) and colon cancer
Many women are using (largely synthetic) Hormone Replacement Therapy to relieve menopause symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats even though it has been associated with an increased risk of stroke and breast cancer. If you are one of them then keep reading. The results of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI), a large study carried [...]
Natural hormone creams improve menopause symptoms – More proof
“Can make remarkable changes in a woman’s life” There is even more research to show that natural hormone creams improve menopause symptoms. Researchers used creams that contained hormones from plants that are similar to the hormones produced by the body (bioidentical hormones). 150 women between the ages of 30 and 70 years were divided into [...]
Are you more likely to get ovarian cancer if you use HRT?
A new study carried out by the Lancet, a medical journal in th U.K. has shown an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer in women who use HRT (hormone replacement therapy). It also showed that the affected women were more likely to die from the disease than women who were not on HRT. This was [...]
Using HRT? Patch may be safer than pills
Conventional hormone therapy using progesterone and estrogen have been used by menopausal women for decades to relieve menopause symptoms, hormone pills being the most popular. After the results of the WHI (Women’s Health Initiative) study which showed an increased risk of developing certain disorders with HRT use, women came off the hormones in droves. Although [...]
Wean yourself off synthetic hormones
Are you using synthetic hormone replacement therapy to relieve menopause symptoms? You may be worried by some of the bad news you’ve been hearing about the risks involved. On the other hand you may be asking yourself how you’re going to survive without HRT. Well you don’t have to. You can opt for bioidentical hormone [...]
More on HRT and breast cancer
Last month researchers at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center announced that the incidence of breast cancer in the United States had dropped by just over 7% in 2003. This drop came after the WHI brought out a report showing an increase in the risks for breast cancer and stroke for women taking [...]
Does black cohosh relieve menopause symptoms?
The herb black cohosh is used by many menopausal women to relieve symptoms of menopause especially hot flashes and night sweats as an alternative to estrogen/progesterone hormone replacement therapy. However, the results of a study published recently found that it was no more effective than placebo (usually an inactive sugar pill) for treating menopause symptoms. [...]
What are the side effects of progesterone? Should I expect the same from a natural bioidentical progesterone cream?
The side effects associated with progesterone are usually found with the synthetic progesterones known as progestins. Manufacturers take the bioidentical progesterone produced from plant sources and change the structure to achieve various results e.g. give it longer lasting effects. The body recognizes these substances as foreign and so reacts to them in various ways leading [...]
Cream progesterone vs oral – which is better?
Progesterone cream can be applied to the skin to relieve many symptoms associated with menopause. It is absorbed into the fat under the skin from where it goes straight into the blood stream from where it circulates to the rest of the body to carry out its effects. Relatively small doses such as those found [...]
Can progesterone cause hair loss?
Hair loss is a common symptom associated with the post-menopausal years. It comes in various forms: hair becomes thinner and lighter coupled with difficulty in styling, alopecia where the hair actually comes out from the roots leaving bald patches and male pattern baldness where hair is lost at the temples and the crown of the [...]
What is progesterone and USP natural progesterone?
Progesterone is a steroid hormone produced from cholesterol in the ovaries by the corpus luteum (the tissue that is left behind after ovulation). It is also produced in the adrenal gland in smaller quantities. It is converted in the body to produce other steroid hormones like estrogen, testosterone, cortisol and androstenedione. The main aim of [...]
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