Postmenopauseis defined retrospectively after 12 consecutive months ofamenorrhea. It represents the end of the reproductive period andovarian failure. A decrease in estrogen leads to several changes in the short and long term. Among the early changes,vasomotorsymptoms (hot flashes) are particularly com...
Moreover, most of studies on the associations between obesity and menopausal symptoms only focused on the vasomotor symptoms such as hot flashes, despite the fact that women undergo multiple diverse symptoms during transition [6, 16,17,18,19]. The objectives of this study were to investigate ...
Over 18 weeks, researchers fed the estrogen-deficient mice a steady diet of either tiny, CBD-laced peanut butter balls or peanut butter balls without CBD. The untreated estrogen-deficient mice developed symptoms that resembled those of postmenopausal human females, such as metabolic dysfunction, evide...
We live in an era when the population is continually aging; at the time of writing, more than 30% of women in the western World are aged 50 years or over. The controversy surrounding the pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), also referred to sometimes as hormone therapy (...
“It’s something we refer to as the obesity paradox,” she says. Whereas young and middle-aged adults’ health outcomes are precipitously worse when they’re overweight or obese, “once you’re over the age of 60 or so, that doesn’t seem to happen. Older adults who are a little ove...
Does Mediterranean diet could have a role on age at menopause and in the management of vasomotor menopausal symptoms? The viewpoint of the endocrinological nutritionist LuigiBarrea, ...GiovannaMuscogiuri, inCurrent Opinion in Food Science, 2021 ...