Hot flushes and night sweats take their toll on our natural sleep pattern and that affects every aspect of our health. Natural progesterone can help restore that sleepy feeling and there are other natural aids that can help too.
The link with oestrogen and breast cancer is well established and rebalancing with bioidentical natural progesterone could be a priority, particularly for women who are overweight.
Progesterone is essential to counteract the excess oestrogen at the root of breast cancer and at menopause levels drop even more dramatically than oestrogen does.
If you are finding it hard to shift those extra pounds, there may be a simple explanation. If you know how your hormones and your lifestyle influence your body shape you can do something about it.
A clear overview of new research which could help arrest the aging process, if the research companies gave up their love affair with the pharmaceutical giants and focused on natural hormones instead.
We are constantly told that cholesterol is bad and needs controlling. But it has an important role to play in health – along with the associated benefits of progesterone.
For the majority of women this is thankfully short lived and restoring progesterone levels after birth is helpful but a surprisingly high proportion may be at risk of future depression.
You may think you are doing all the right things, but are you really making the best choices? And what role do your hormones play?
Good progesterone levels are essential for a healthy pregnancy and birth, but lacking this essential vitamin can also affect the outcome.
Heart disease is more common in menopausal women than generally realised. Protection comes from bioidentical progesterone but simply ‘greening’ your diet can make a difference too.