http://www.menopauselifestyle.com Women's health - For every stage of life Sat, 03 May 2008 20:24:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are a good number of us that would like to know the answer to that question and soon there may be an answer. Research into the hormone anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) suggests that analysis of this hormone may be able to predict when menopause will occur. AMH is produced in women and ... http://www.menopauselifestyle.com/blog/when-will-you-have-your-menopause/ Scientists at the University of East Anglia in the UK are carrying out a study to see if chocolate can reduce the risk of developing heart disease in post-menopausal women with type 2 diabetes. Chocolate is made out of cocoa which is rich in substances called flavonoids which are thought ... http://www.menopauselifestyle.com/blog/can-chocolate-prevent-heart-disease-in-postmenopausal-women/ Natural progesterone cream can be used to manage a number of problems that are related to hormonal imbalance. General guidelines for using natural progesterone PMS Hysterectomy Premenopausal women Fibrocystic breast disease Endometriosis Menstrual migraine headaches General guidelines for using bioidentical progesterone cream Spread the cream thinly over a large area of skin for maximum absorption. Make sure skin is clean ... http://www.menopauselifestyle.com/blog/guidelines-natural-progesterone/ Menopause is a condition that many women dread, mostly because they don't know exactly what to expect. One of the most common symptoms of menopause is osteoporosis. Virtually every woman will have osteoporosis to varying degrees after menopause. The severity will depend on factors like heredity and how much care ... http://www.menopauselifestyle.com/blog/calcium-and-osteoporosis/ Estrogen dominance symptoms include most of the symptoms of menopause you will experience. Symptoms of estrogen dominance include: Irregular periods Irritability Mood swings Bloating Memory loss Sore breasts Migraine headaches Hair loss Weight gain Decreased sex drive Tiredness Sleeplessness Dr. Lee revolutionized the treatment of menopausal (estrogen dominance) symptoms. He concluded that natural progesterone, especially applied to the skin in the form of a ... http://www.menopauselifestyle.com/blog/estrogen-dominance-symptoms/ Migraine headaches (sometimes called chronic headaches) are moderate to severe recurrent headaches, often occurring on one side of the head, which may last from a few hours to several days. It is estimated that about 6% of men and 18% of women sufferer from migraines in the U.S. Characteristics of ... http://www.menopauselifestyle.com/blog/introduction-to-chronic-headaches/ Women who have severe menopause symptoms are more likely to develop heart disease according to a recent study. Those who had the most hot flushes and night sweats had higher cholesterol levels, higher blood pressure, higher BMI and a higher risk of developing heart disease over the next 10 years. ... http://www.menopauselifestyle.com/blog/increase-heart-risks-with-severe-menopause-symptoms/ Obese women are less likely to have mammograms and pap smears (screening tests for breast cancer and cervical cancer) than women who are not. In view of the epidemic of obesity that is sweeping across the US, this is a problem. This problem was found more amongst white women than ... http://www.menopauselifestyle.com/blog/obese-women-and-cancer-testing/ Breast cancer survivors often have problems when it comes to managing menopause symptoms. Use of hormonal therapy may lead to a relapse of the cancer. In addition, some of the medication used to treat breast cancer can themselves worsen menopause symptoms. According to a recent US study, breast cancer survivors can ... http://www.menopauselifestyle.com/blog/breast-cancer-survivors-yoga-and-menopause-symptoms/ A study in the American Journal of obstetrics has shown that there are marked differences in the way uterine fibroids present in black women and white women. In black women: fibroids tended to be discovered at an earlier age they were more likely to have severe disease they had more severe menstrual pain and they had ... http://www.menopauselifestyle.com/blog/uterine-fibroids-more-severe-in-black-women/