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Eat Your Fruit and Vegetable…Extracts

April 23rd, 2011 No comments

As a menopause specialist, I am often asked to review natural supplements. There are plenty of natural options available so I can understand the difficulty one may have in choosing.   Most natural supplements for menopause contain either black cohosh, soy, ginseng, red clover, dong quai or their extracts.   I recently learned of new supplement that didn’t contain any of these ingredients. I was intrigued and decided to learn more about it. This natural supplement called “Warmi” contains vegetable and fruit extracts, from Peru. The vegetable is believed to have been eaten by Incan women 700 years ago.

 
I reviewed the Warmi research. There are three clinical trials completed but not published on the product.   It appears to offer the hot flash, cold sweat and mood swing relief I’ve found with better natural menopause remedies.

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Natural Menopause Remedies

July 18th, 2010 2 comments

Menopause symptoms may begin several years before your periods actually end and last for several months or several years after that. Women usually notice the beginning of perimenopause symptoms in their 40’s and irregularities usually persist for approximately five years. The average age of actual menopause in the U.S. is around 51.   As women go through these steps, it is important to remember that the “change” called menopause is a natural, normal phase of female development. It is not a disease process. While we speak of symptoms and treatments, those are only comfortable terms to describe what you may be feeling and what you can do about it. While women may be scared and frustrated by what’s happening, they should not consider themselves sick as they go through this transition.   At the same time, women may have important questions about the effects of changing hormones on their body and about illnesses that may become more likely with increasing age.  Natural and complimentary products are widely used during the perimenopause and menopause transition, with varying degrees of clinical and/or safety data.  Below is a review of some of the most popular natural products used today.

 Read on for information about the most commonly used natural products during the menopause transition.

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Are Current Vitamin D Recommendations Outrageously Low?

July 5th, 2010 2 comments

At MenopauseRx we do a lot of groundwork to review thousands of research studies. We bring you the newest and most pertinent information for your menopausal health. We know you will find this information enlightening, so much so that it may change the way you think about Vitamin D supplementation.

Numerous studies have linked low vitamin D levels with: Cancer, Depression, Osteoporosis, Heart Disease, Multiple Sclerosis, Type 1 Diabetes, Rhuematoid Arthritis, Seasonal Affective Disease

With all this research… why are the government recommendations outrageously low at 200 – 400 IU. Studies suggest that blood levels associated with disease prevention may be 5X to 10X the current recommendations.

To learn more read…

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/11180df8-beaa-11de-b4ab-00144feab49a.html

Pain Relief Patch (SalonPAS) and MenopauseRx

June 1st, 2010 2 comments

MenopauseRx is pleased to announce an agreement with the manufacturer of SalonPAS.  Beginning immediately, MenopauseRx will provide a free sample of SALONPAS®PAIN RELIEF PATCHwith each order from the MenopauseRx.com online store.  Each SALONPAS®PAIN RELIEF PATCHsample contains three (3) ultra thin, comfort stretch patches that are helpful in alleviating muscle pain.  Effectiveness related to stiff neck, sore shoulder, backache and joint pain has been confirmed in clinical trials.

The SALONPAS®PAIN RELIEF PATCH is the first and only FDA approved over-the-counter topical pain relief patch.  Two powerful ingredients, ‘Methyl Salicylate and Menthol’, go right to the site of pain. SALONPAS®PAIN RELIEF PATCH reduces inflammation and relieves mild to moderate pain for up to 12 hours.

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Menopause Updates at MenopauseRx

New eNewsletter Archive

Menopause Newsletter ArchiveMenopauseRx has created an easy to use archive of our latest newsletters for quick and easy review.

Here you’ll find past issues of our member’s only newsletters that contain news and study information related to your menopausal transition.

– To access the archive, click here.

How To Get The Sleep You Need

(NAPSI)-Here’s a fact that you may want to sleep on. According to the National Sleep Foundation, nearly 75 percent of women between the ages of 30 and 60 are not getting the eight hours of sleep they need.

Many women find it difficult to unwind at the end of the day and are left tossing and turning, trying to fall asleep and waking up in the middle of the night. Often blamed are hectic lifestyles filled with daily stress, anxiety and responsibilities, but there may be more to what’s keeping women up at night.

If you’re a woman between the ages of 35 and 55, you may be experiencing hormone fluctuations due to perimenopause and menopause, which can cause a number of physical and emotional changes including increased irritability, anxiety and night sweats. These changes may upset your body’s natural sleep pattern. In fact, according to a recent study, sleeplessness is the number-two complaint of menopausal women.

Researchers believe that lack of quality sleep may contribute to obesity, diabetes, immune system dysfunction as well as safety issues such as car accidents and medical errors, not to mention impaired job performance and productivity in other activities.
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Estrogen patch beats pill for blood clot risk, study of menopause hormones finds….more research needed

By: MARILYNN MARCHIONE – AP Medical Writer

For women who have struggled with the symptoms of menopause but are fearful of taking risky hormone pills, there is at last a bit of hope. Hormone skin patches and gels, it seems, are far less likely than pills to cause dangerous blood clots. At least that was the finding from a recently published French study.

Patches and gels are already known to be effective for relieving the hot flashes and sleep-interrupting night sweats that plague many women. No one knows whether they will prove safer than pills in terms of breast cancer, heart attack or stroke risk. A large study currently under way may answer that.

But if they do, it may soften some of the backlash against hormones since a landmark study in 2002 frightened many women away from their use. Critics of that study have long contended that it is the type of estrogen or progestin, the dosage, and the method of taking the hormones that may affect the health risks.

The French study, while not the final word, is the strongest proof yet that this may be true, said Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. She has no financial ties to hormone drugmakers and just published a book giving women advice on hormone use.
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Remifemin® brand of Black Cohosh Reduces Menopausal Symptoms and may Protect Against Breast Cancer

GREEN BAY, WI, April 18, 2007-Many women are choosing dietary supplements for the management of menopausal symptoms – especially since serious health concerns have been raised about hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Remifemin® black cohosh extract, the most extensively researched, non-prescription menopausal therapy has been found to safely and effectively reduce hot flashes, night sweats and irritability. Now, a study published in the International Journal of Cancer: 120, 1523-1528 (2007), has shown that this proprietary herbal product lowers the risk of breast cancer by as much as 60%.

“The standardized Remifemin® black cohosh extract has antiestrogenic, antiproliferative and antioxidant properties,” said Dr. Eckehard Liske, Director of the International Medical Department, Schaper & Bruemmer GmbH & Co KG, Salzgitter, Germany. “Rebbeck’s research suggests that Remifemin® may help in reducing the risk of breast cancer.”
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