Learn how female sex hormones change throughout life, including menopause. Understand symptoms of imbalance, and treatment options.
Indeed, the loss of female sex hormones after menopause contributes to the striking increase in the incidence of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality after menopause. Estrogen replacement therapy improved lipoprotein profiles in the postmenopausal women, but this accounts for less than half of the ...
Bio-identical hormones include Estrone (E1), Estradiol (E2), Estriol (E3), Progesterone, Testosterone, Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA), and Pregnenolone. The precise components of each woman’s therapy need to be determined after physical examination, medical history, and laboratory testing are considere...
Hormone replacement has become a popular option for women undergoing menopause. Female hormones like estrogen are replaced using skin patches, topical creams, and injections. These therapies reportedly relieve some of the most common menopausal complaints like hot flashes and night sweats. Some women ev...
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality in women, a fact that is underappreciated by women and physicians. Clinical and experimental data underscore the cardioprotective effects of female sex hormones, particularly estrogen. Indeed, the loss of female sex hormones after menopause contribu...
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Clinical and experimental data underscore the cardioprotective effects of female sex hormones, particularly estrogen. Indeed, the loss of female sex hormones after menopause contributes to the striking increase in the incidence of cardiovascular morbidity and mortality after menopause. Estrogen replacement ...
Menopausal age has not altered substantially since medieval times. In the United States, the average age of menopause is 51 years, and currently over 40 million women are over age 50. Only 1% of women experience menopause prior to age 40.1 Women live one
Hormone replacement after menopause has in recent years been the subject of intense scientific debate and public interest and has sparked intense research efforts into the biological effects of estrogens and progestagens. However, there are reasons to believe that the doses used and plasma concentrati...
Menopause Your sex hormone levels also drop with "the change." But it’s unclear how this affects IBS. In some women IBS improves after menopause, when these hormonal changes stop. On the other hand, more than a third of menopausal women in one recent study reported IBS-type symptoms, lik...