Alzheimer's Disease, Bioidentical Estrogens, Depression, Early Menopause, Estrogens, General Health, Hormones, Memory, Premature Menopause
Are you worried your brain fog is early demntia, an overall term used to describe a decline in your brain health. This can include the loss of your mental ability to think, remember and/or learn. Alzheimer’s is the most common form of dementia and accounts for...
Bioidentical Estrogens, Depression, Early Menopause, Estrogens, General Health, Hormones, Menopause, Mental Health, Premature Menopause
There are definitely gender differences when it comes to psychiatric issues and substance abuse. Males are more at risk for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism, Tourette syndrome, oppositional defiant disorder and possibly schizophrenia. Because these...
Bioidentical Estrogens, Bladder Control, Early Menopause, Estriol, Estrogens, General Health, Hormones, Painful Sex, Premature Menopause, Sexuality, Vaginal Dryness
For women in menopause, narrowing and thinning of the vaginal tissues and vaginal dryness, a condition called vulvovaginal atrophy (VVA) is one of the most common symptoms. Though it affects over half of women, only 7% are treated and many are unaware that effective...
Bioidentical Estrogens, Breast Cancer, Estrogens, Hormones, Premature Menopause, Vaginal Dryness
For millions of women, Premarin® was a household name. Before the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) was published in 2002, Premarin was one of the most widely used medications in the world. But after the WHI suggested that it caused an increase in breast cancer,...
Breast Cancer, Cancer, cholesterol, Estrogens, Hormones, perimenopause
You know that estrogen plays a role in some breast cancers. You may also know that the sex hormones estrogen and testosterone originally are created in the ovary, testis and adrenal gland by metabolizing cholesterol. You may not know that an intermediate of...
Hormones, Menopause, perimenopause
Mention the word ovaries and most people think reproduction. But the ovaries are much more than two tip-of-your-thumb-sized oval egg containers. Of course reproduction is one of their primary functions. But the ovaries are also highly specialized endocrine glands –...
