The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) met in Philadelphia October 11-14 2017. This organization was founded in 1989. It is a non-profit whose mission is to promote the health and quality of life of women during midlife and beyond. The membership (approx 2,000 leaders in the field of mid-life) includes clinical and basic science experts …
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?).
Sometimes it seems the older you get, the more your body becomes like a giant chemistry experiment. You tweak one thing to feel better, upsetting the apple cart and leading to other issues. This is never more true than during the menopausal transition, when your hormones careen around the roller coaster track while you hang …
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No wonder our heads are spinning! This therapy has more names than Prince! No matter what you call it, most women aren’t sure whether they should rip off their estradiol patches or run to the doctor and get prescriptions for them! If you don’t mind, I am going to take journalistic license and flip around …
