A big decision that many women face during menopause revolves around the use of hormone therapy (HT). When you go through perimenopause and menopause, your body begins to produce different (usually lower) amounts of estrogen, progesterone, and/or testosterone hormones. These fluctuations often result in the symptoms that many women experience. HT is intended to supplement …
The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) has published online in the Society’s journal, Menopause a new position statement on the use of hormone therapy (HT) for menopausal and postmenopausal women from. PLEASE READ THIS!
If you are like many perimenopausal women, you may be suffering from insomnia, emotional highs and lows, hot flashes, brain fog, dry vagina and other challenging, quality of life-changing symptoms. So why are so many women suffering? Most of them are afraid of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Today it is often referred to as hormone …
When you go through perimenopause and menopause, your body begins to produce different—usually lower—amounts of estrogen, progesterone and/or testosterone hormones. These fluctuations often result in less-than-thrilling symptoms, such as weight gain, sleepless nights, hot flashes, night sweats, irritability, depression and memory loss, just to name a few (sounds fun, right?).
I just returned from Orlando where I attended the 2016 Annual Meeting of the North American Menopause Society (NAMS). I know what you are thinking, a conference about the menopausal vagina – must have been so dry! Quite the contrary! Having just read the 2016 Revised Global Consensus Statement on Menopausal Hormone Therapy (MHT) which …
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