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(CBS4) DENVER Hormone replacement therapies have gotten a lot of negative attention lately, that’s why more menopausal women are looking for new alternatives, CBS4 reports.Bioidentical hormones are a natural treatment option that appears to be growing in popularity.Most bioidentical hormones come from soy or yams. Once the hormones are extracted from the plant they can be processed to be used by a woman’s body.
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Female baby boomers are dominating the work force these days, accounting for almost half the working population, according to a recent survey. And since many of these women will be forced to work well past the retirement age, managing menopausal symptoms has become more important than ever for women looking to fight hot flashes in the boardroom.
Seventy-four percent of women said at least one symptom of menopause, mostly hot flashes and night sweats, were disruptive to their work lives, according to a survey conducted by the National Association of Female Executives. Almost half of the women (45 percent) noted that menopause symptoms were worse than they expected.
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THE GUY WAS somewhere in his mid-70s and he was loud and bombastic and sitting in a booth next to mine in the coffee shop.
“So this woman has the nerve to ask me how it feels to be an old man,” he says to the other guy in his booth. “So I tell her the truth. It feels a hell of a lot better being an old man than you’re going to feel being an old woman.”
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The Roby Institute and Schaupp Pte. Ltd (a health care provider domiciled in Vietnam) announced to internet marketing and PR firm Global VIP Traffic an agreement authorizing the exclusive licensing and use of The Roby Institute Allergy and RUSH Immunology therapies today.
Headquartered in Austin, TX, with treatment facilities in San Antonio, Marble Falls and Austin, The Roby Institute is a worldwide leader in RUSH Immunotherapy, SLIT, Neutralization and Bioidentical Hormone Treatment therapies. These noninvasive therapies offer immediate and significant relief for a wide range of chronic conditions, such as, migraine, pain, allergy, Asthma, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Chronic Fatigue (CFS), Fibromyalgia Syndrome (FMS), Weight Loss & Control, Menopause and Andropause related symptoms. Bioidentical Hormone Treatment has become more widely popular due to the release and promotion of Suzanne Somers’ new book, The Sexy Years, in which she describes how Bioidentical Hormone Treatment relieved her menopausal symptoms.
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It’s no secret that high cholesterol increases the risk of heart disease, but new research from Italy suggests that it may also be bad for the bones. In a study of postmenopausal women, those with higher levels of the “bad” form of cholesterol were much more likely to show signs of bone thinning than women with normal cholesterol.
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As an apparently healthy 18-year-old, Gemma Fawcett thought she had all the time in the world to start a family.
But there then followed three years of unsuccessful attempts with her fiancÈ John Armstrong.
And when she went to the doctor she was dumbstruck to be told she was going through the menopause.
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The disclosure of an illegal ovum trade has made a big splash in Korea. It even made people look suspiciously at the stem cell research of Hwang Woo-suk, the renowned Seoul National University professor and stem-cell researcher.
Under usual circumstances, either one of two ovaries release one ovum during a single ovulation period. However, when ova for sales are artificially extracted, women are injected with a hormone that induces hyperstimulation, allowing 10 to 15 ova to be extracted.
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Women will soon be able to buy a home testing kit from the supermarket to check whether they are going through the menopause. The £15 kit works like a DIY pregnancy test, measuring hormone levels in the urine.
When the menopause begins – usually around the age of 50 – women lose their supply of oestrogen from the ovaries. This causes their periods to stop, but also leads to symptoms such as hot flushes, night sweats, loss of libido and mood swings.
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Women are suffering in silence as they struggle to cope with menopausal symptoms because they are too embarrassed to talk to their partners, research shows. For many women the symptoms become so severe that their sex lives are disrupted, the survey for a menopause support website found.
And one in four has to make excuses to avoid having sex with their partner, the poll of 400 women discovered. Nearly half (47%) of menopausal women in a sexual relationship said they would hide their menopausal symptoms from their partner.
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Menopause Articles | admin November 30, 2005 | 
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