Women's Menopause Health Center January 15, 2004 Newsletter.

 

Estrogen and Progesterone Treatment as an Alternative for Hormone Replacement Therapy.

 

A Dec. 30, 2003 Associated Press article stated that about one quarter of women who stopped taking hormone replacement therapy because of its risks wind up resuming HRT because of menopause misery.

This article verifies what we have been saying all along; "No treatment is NOT an option." Women need an alternative treatment to hormone replacement therapy. Otherwise, their lives can be quite miserable.

Almost daily we receive an email, phone call or forum post from a cranky, depressed, sleep-deprived and/or over-heated woman in a desperate search for something - anything - that will put the brakes on menopause symptoms without the use of synthetic hormone replacement therapy.

We not only advocate staying away from synthetic hormone replacement therapy, we advocate finding healthy, effective alternative treatment options to hormone replacement therapy. We advocate bringing your hormones in balance by using estrogen-building nutritional support and progesterone cream treatment as an alternative for hormone replacement therapy. In this newsletter we provide a step-by-step guide to getting off hormone replacement therapy without making your life miserable.

 

This plan as outlined is near foolproof. Of course, you should discuss medication alternatives with your regular health care provider.

In the first month you will begin to slowly wean yourself off synthetic hormones while introducing the hormone replacement therapy replacements. The purpose behind slowly tapering off hormone replacement therapy is two-fold. First, you can avoid drug withdraw by taking the slow approach. Second, slowly weaning yourself off hormone replacement therapy provides the necessary time for the alternatives to take hold. It typically takes a month or two for the natural alternative elements to solidly work through your body.

Below the following schedule is a description of each product listed:

Month 1:

• Decrease your dose of hormone replacement therapy by half. You can do this by requesting a new prescription from your physician or by physically cutting the pills in half.
• Begin using a natural, USP progesterone cream like Preserve progesterone cream.
•  Begin using the Preserve line of nutritional menopause support products.

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Diosgenin cream ingredients | Benefits diosgenin cream | How to use diosgenin cream.  |  Return to Eden Diosgenin (nicknamed Progesterone) Cream. Sorry - Product Discontinued NEW!! NEW!!! BIG DRUG COMPANIES USING THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION IN AN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY COMPETITION FROM NATURAL HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPIES!!! Do you remember our newsletter last year detailing how Wyeth Pharmaceuticals was attempting to stop compounding pharmacists from prescribing natural progesterone (diosgenin) after their profits fell by more than 57%  from $2.07 billion in 2003 to $800 million in 2004 (after the WHI study had to be stopped)? Well, now they have gone after centers like ours making complaints to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).  The FTC's position backed by the big pharmaceutical companies is that Dr. John Lee, M.D.'s studies were not scientific and did not rise to the standard of FDA and National Institutes of Health studies, and that our claims about natural progesterone are false, unfair, deceptive, misleading advertising in violation of the law..  (Please read what Dr. Helen Pensanti M.D. has to say about this. Read on to how the study was conducted.)   This is an attempt to force women into taking unsafe proven cancer causing synthetic hormones using your tax dollar to harass natural hormone suppliers. We here at the Women's Menopause Health Center refuse to take away your choice of a healthy alternative to Premarin, Prempro and the other dangerous drugs. We are taking a stand against this heavy handed attempt to destroy competition. We are going to fight for your choice of a healthy way to get through menopause comfortably and safely. (Ed. note: This was from our newsletter last year. The continued harassment by the FTC has caused us to discontinue our wonderful product. DO NOT be forced into taking something that can kill you. You may purchase safe progesterone cream at your local health food store, or find it a lot less expensively on line at places like ebay and yahoo stores. Do not let these heavy handed tactics destroy your health!) Return to Eden Chemical Preservative FREE  Natural Progesterone Cream. ALL NATURAL INGREDIENTS - ARTIFICIAL AND CHEMICAL PRESERVATIVE FREE! HIGHEST QUALITY NATURAL INGREDIENTS USP PROGESTERONE CREAM ON MARKET TODAY. 500 MG/OZ USP  PROGESTERONE, 100% PHARMACEUTICAL GRADE.  1- 4oz jar     Return to Eden Progesterone Cream  MSRP $26.99    $19.95      2- 4oz jars    Return to Eden Progesterone Cream                                $35.95

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Month 2:

• Decrease your dose of hormone replacement therapy by half again. Again, you can either request a new prescription or cut the pills in half yourself.
• Continue your new regime of the Preserve line menopause nutritional support products and Preserve progesterone cream.

Month 3:

• Decrease your dose of hormone replacement therapy by half again or stop altogether.
• Continue taking the Preserve line of menopause nutritional support products and the Preserve natural progesterone cream.

 

Our complete line of alternative hormone replacement products work synergistically in the treatment for hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings, weight gain and the other symptoms of menopause. The approach outlined above is two-pronged in that it provides the body with the progesterone and possibly estrogen it needs while fortifying the body with the nutritional and herbal support it needs.

Using a progesterone cream is the cornerstone of every successful hormone replacement therapy alternative menopause plan. If you use nothing else, use progesterone cream. For nutritional support, choose from Preserve, and/or Eternal-In - depending on your individual needs. These two supplements taken together provide a complete nutritional support system for women in their menopause years. The "Women's Strategy Pack" includes Preserve and Eternal-In.

Preserve Progesterone Cream: A quality progesterone cream (see our newsletter article "How to Choose a Progesterone Cream") can do wonders for you. Progesterone cream can balance your hormones and eliminate estrogen dominance. It can improve your lipid profile, your blood sugar control and help burn body fat. Progesterone cream is shown to ward of osteoporosis by improving new bone formation and rebuilding lost bone mass -- at a rate of 5-15% per year. It is a natural anti-depressant and a natural diuretic. It reduces the risk of breast cancer and uterine cancer. Progesterone cream stops hot flashes, normalizes libido, regulates mood swings and so much more.

For an in-depth view of the benefits of natural progesterone, read "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause: The Breakthrough Book on Natural Progesterone" by the late John R. Lee, M.D., an international authority and pioneer in the use of natural progesterone cream and natural hormone balance.

Preserve: This is the base nutritional support supplement for menopause and a powerful component in the hormone replacement therapy alternative plan. Preserve supplies the body with safe, naturally-occurring phytoestrogen complexes and calming herbs to help naturally diminish the discomfort of menopausal symptoms. Preserve helps normalize hormonal levels, diminish night sweats and hot flashes, soothe and stabilize mood, reduce moodiness, depression and irritability and helps reduce the uncomfortable and painful symptoms of menopause, such as pain, cramping and headache.

Eternal-In: In addition to Preserve, you will want to use Eternal-In for its anti-aging qualities. Eternal-In helps remove age spots, free radicals and chemical toxins that impede healthy skin. Eternal-In also helps improve skin elasticity and reduce skin wrinkling and sagging. Eternal-In also protects against varicose vein development.

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Menopause Recipe: Maple Flax Crunch.
 

TLC Bath & Body Recipe: Ginger Bath.

 

Exercise Tip: Getting the Most Out of Your Workout.
 

 

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