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WOMEN'S HEALTH
It seemed the perfect match for us "women of a certain age" an easy-to-swallow pill that could soothe our menopausal symptoms, keep our bones strong, protect us from heart disease, and lower our risk of colon cancer. But alas, our love affair with menopausal hormone therapy (HT), which used to be called hormone replacement therapy, came to an abrupt end last summer when researchers leading the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) published their startling findings about the therapy. Hot flashes, or more correctly called hot flush, is the most common complaint of menopausal women. Up to 80 percent of women experience them to some degree, with up to 40 percent suffering enough to seek medical attention. While some women never have a hot flash, most are inconvenienced for a year of two. For some women flashes may persist up to 5, even 10 years. More than ever before in the history of mankind, human beings need to have healthy livers to break down the chemicals that have crept into our environment. If you talk to radiologists and gastroenterologists who are looking at people's livers today they will tell you that the condition "Fatty Liver" affects more than 50% of people over the age of 50! A woman’s menopause is defined as the cessation of menstruation for six to twelve months in older women. In most industrialized nations it is accompanied by anxiety, insomnia, headaches, irritability, fatigue and vaginal dryness, not to mention hot flashes, which 65-80% of American women will experience. n 1997, about 42 percent of U.S. adults used some type of alternative therapy, for a total expenditure of $27 billion. Acupuncture and several dietary supplements, such as soy, isoflavone, and black cohosh, have been advocated for treatment of menopausal symptoms, but the extent of their use in the general population is unknown. Newton and colleagues surveyed women enrolled in a large managed-care health plan to assess the prevalence of alternative treatments for menopausal symptoms and the characteristics of women who chose such therapies. Everyday, women of all ages, from menarche through the change of life, experience a need for relief from pre-menstrual, menstrual, pre-menopausal and menopausal symptoms. Conditions such as mood swings, cramps, excessive bleeding, irregular cycles, hot flashes, and seemingly insatiable cravings affect hundreds of thousands of women.
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