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Another Hot Night

Posted on July 23, 2008
You've waited for this evening for weeks. Finally you and your husband have the time and a few dollars to go out for the night to spend some romantic time together. The grown kids are now gone off to college, married, or are chasing their promising career and the house is essentially empty...

Conkus of the Bonkus

Posted on July 23, 2008
I first heard this term used by my colleague Dr. Steve Nugent. Dr. Nugent is the Chief of Alternative Medicine for a nutritional research and development company. Give a name to a symptom and call it a disease.Conventional medicine has long taken the position that if you have a symptom, there is probably a disease associated with it that has either a Latin or Greek root...

Women's Hormone Replacement Therapy - Are You In Balance?

Posted on July 23, 2008
It has been two years since the Women's Health Initiative Estrogen plus Progestin (WHI) arm of this large trial was stopped early because it caused harm. The WHI showed the opposite of what was expected--Estrogen (Premarin) plus Progestin (Provera) caused heart disease and breast cancer as well as blood clots and strokes...

Top Tips To Treat Low Back Pain

Posted on July 23, 2008
Low back pain is practically a universal problem. The crucial things to remember are that this problem is common (most people get it), painful (incredibly), medically minor (most of the time), and that the cause is nearly always an injury that requires time to heal completely...

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Are There Any Side Effects of a Hysterectomy?

Posted on July 23, 2008
It's a logical and frequently asked question - are there any hysterectomy side effects?Absolutely!Hysterectomy is defined as the surgical removal of the vital organ called the uterus. Most hysterectomies are performed on women between the ages of 20 and 49...

Follicular Cysts And Corpus Luteum Cysts

Posted on July 17, 2008
A cyst can rupture be it a, most likely it's a follicular cyst or a corpus luteum cyst. These are the so-called functional cysts, or the functional cyst with pregnancy. When they rupture generally nothing happens. In fact, there's usually a pressure relief...

Garden Variety Estrogen

Posted on July 17, 2008
"Estrogen is estrogen," my sister says matter-of-factly. The voice of authority has spoken. And I know that I cannot convince her otherwise.Sarah works for a very successful group of family physicians in Williamsburg, VA. Steeped in conventional pharmaceutical wisdom, the docs there make the same mistake docs everywhere make: they trust their drugs reps to give them the skinny on the latest drug research...

Discover Natural Herbs As An Alternative To Hormone Replacement Therapy

Posted on July 16, 2008
Over the years, natural herbs as an alternative to hormone replacement therapy have soared. Indeed, with the proven dangers of hormone replacement therapy more and more women are interested in learning more about natural therapies and alternatives. Moreover, some women simply don't like ingesting their estrogen from the prescription drug Premarin, which comes from horses horse urine, to be precise...

Abdominal Hysterectomy: Recovery Time After Hysterectomy

Posted on July 13, 2008
Having an abdominal hysterectomy and the recovery time after hysterectomy are significant events in any woman's life. Since an abdominal hysterectomy is an in-patient surgical procedure, you should plan on being away from home and work during the surgery and perhaps during the beginning recovery time after hysterectomy...

Hormone Balancing and the Risks for Heart Disease

Posted on July 13, 2008
Risk factors for heart disease are primarily the same in women as they are in men. Smoking, high blood pressure, excessive weight, sedentary lifestyle (little or no exercise), high Homocystine levels, diabetes, high cholesterol, age and family history of heart problems all increase a woman's chances of having heart disease...

Alternatives for Hormone Replacement Therapy

Posted on July 10, 2008
Do alternatives for hormone replacement therapy exist? Yes! Available alternatives for hormone replacement therapy consist of two primary forms -- synthetic therapy and natural hormone replacement therapy.The synthetic hormone replacement therapy drugs are not the same as natural hormones that occur in the body...

Hysterectomy: Recovery After a Hysterectomy

Posted on July 10, 2008
Hysterectomy recovery after a hysterectomy is a crucial time in a woman's life. Recovery after a hysterectomy means a woman needs some time to adjust, to heal and to complete her hysterectomy recovery process. Here are some tips for speeding up the recovery time:1...

Facts About Alzheimer's

Posted on July 09, 2008
Dementia is defined as a progressive loss of memory and mental capacity that is usually experienced by people as they get older, though there isn't any predetermined age in which such a condition can strike. Dementia is a slow, progressive disease process that can exhibit signs and symptoms for months, or even years...

Is There A Lasting Solution To Vaginal Dryness?

Posted on July 05, 2008
Vaginal dryness makes you sensitive, self conscious and you repel sex. Your sex life makes a turn around and heads for the worst. But you can overcome your agony by trying out various remedies and medical solutions to pull you out of such a stalemate...

The Evolution of Menopause - From Nature to Illness and Back Again

Posted on July 04, 2008
It's something we've all seen before. From puberty to childbirth, the medical profession does it's very best to "medicalize" each and every condition that it possibly can. How many young women are being placed on birth control pills during puberty to "regulate" their cycles, even though though their cycles are supposed to be irregular during that point in their lives?Even childbirth was once considered a perfectly natural event...

Sexual Difficulties and Menopause

Posted on July 02, 2008
A lot of women are happy to be going through menopause because this saves them the worries and fears of unwanted pregnancy. They also tend to be more in touch with and comfortable about their sexual needs and desires than they were earlier in life. Regrettably, there are also many women who find that menopause has an unfavorable impact on their sex lives...

A Natural Hormone Supplement - What Is It and Why Use It?

Posted on July 02, 2008
A natural hormone supplement is a hormone that is identical to what occurs naturally in the body. Most prescription drugs are not the same as a natural hormone supplement. Why?In the USA since the late 1800's, U.S. laws allow medicines to be patented only if they are not naturally occurring substances...

Why Choose Bio-identical Hormones Over Traditional Hormones?

Posted on July 02, 2008
Any woman interested in bio-identical hormones should know the difference between natural hormones (bhrt) and synthetic hormones (hrt). Bio-identical hormones are derived from yams or soy and are the chemical replicates of the exact hormone found in the human body...

Menopause Symptoms - Is HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) A Good Thing?

Posted on June 30, 2008
"I can't take these hot flashes anymore!" This is a common reaction to most of the symptoms associated with menopause. While some women have been unscathed by the effects of menopause, there are more who are experiencing severe menopause symptoms and want them alleviated...

A Horrific Prescription for Menopause

Posted on June 29, 2008
A friend of mine believing she had finally reached menopause because of frequently occurring hot flashes that were driving her nuts, made an appointment at her doctor. The doctor set her up to have a hormone panel done. With the positive results of the tests, her suspicions were confirmed, she had indeed reached menopause...

Hormones: Can They Help?

Posted on June 28, 2008
In menopause, a woman's ovaries stop producing the "Female" hormones estrogen and progesterone. Levels of the "male" hormone Testosterone fall more gradually, so that a woman in her 40s has only about half the Testosterone she had in her 20s. These hormonal shifts can add up to a loss of sexual desire, or vaginal dryness that makes sexual intercourse an ordeal...

Bioidentical Hormones - The Truth About Usng Them During Menopause

Posted on June 26, 2008
Can menopause symptoms be safely comforted with bioidentical hormones? Recent research suggests that menopause can be treated with bioidentical hormones, a natural replacement for a woman's body, with no reported side effects.In the past, menopause has been treated like a disease - primarily with Hormone Replacement Therapy or HRT (including Premarin, which is made from pregnant mare's urine, Prempro and Provera), which meant ingesting synthetic chemicals on a regular basis...

Why Is There Media Hype Surrounding Menopause And Hormones

Posted on June 25, 2008
There are over 40 million women in the United States between the ages of 40 and 60. Worldwide, about 25 million women enter menopause annually. Estimates show that by the year 2030, that number will increase to 47 million women per year. Relief of menopausal symptoms such as improved sleep could translate into a more productive woman whether she works or is a mother or spouse...

Alzheimer's - Fight It Before It Becomes A Living Death

Posted on June 25, 2008
Are you getting increasingly forgetful? Do you forget where you kept keys of your car keep your car keys usually? Is this all happening too frequently and you are forgetting things that you never forgot earlier and which a normal person would not ordinarily forget?This may be the beginning of what has been describe as 'living death'...

Weight Loss Secrets of Armour Thyroid

Posted on June 23, 2008
As people continue on their search for easy weight-loss remedies, products which are made for other purposes other than weight loss are now being used to satisfy this need. One of these products is Armour Thyroid.Armour Thyroid is a brand of thyroid extract made from mixed pork and beef thyroid glands used for the treatment of goiter and hypothyroidism (a disease where the thyroid doesn't produce enough hormones)...

Bioidentical Hormone Replacement

Posted on June 12, 2008
Bioidentical hormones are defined as biologically identical to what the human body manufactures. Their molecular structure is exactly the same as the molecular structure of hormones made by the body. They are derived from plant sources: soy, wild yam and other plant extracts and processed in a lab to replicate the hormones in the body...

HRT, Breast Cancer, And Bioidentical Hormones

Posted on June 11, 2008
The symptoms of menopause are akin to labor pains in that they feel like they will go on forever, yet they herald the birth of new life. In fact, whilst perimenopause lasts a lot longer - from 5 to 10, or up to 13 years, it is not an indicator of how 'life will be'...

Say Goodbye To Post-Menopause Issues With Premarin

Posted on June 10, 2008
Come menopause and the trouble time for women starts. The post-menopausal problems like osteoporosis, vaginal dryness, hot flashes, burning, irritation and other hormonal imbalances announce their arrival as soon as the woman is past her menopausal phase...

Solicitor? Barrister? Whatever, I Got a Job.

Posted on June 04, 2008
Well, the long wait is over. I finally got a job. A good one this time. Like, a really good one. I'll be doing aviation litigation and some insurance coverage for a large international firm based out of London, in a small office in the City. I'm really excited, and I should start next week...

More Observations (ie, too lazy for a real post)

Posted on May 25, 2008
I've quickly become addicted to the show Top Gear. Keep in mind, I don't know anything about cars, don't like watching car shows, and don't have BBC America. No matter, the show kicks ass. To quote AHR: "The personalities, the stunts, the banter, and the cinematography are all top notch...

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