It's in the news again -- the dangers of hormone replacement therapy. I've been talking about this for quite a while. Three years ago this month, the plug was finally pulled on a long-term study of women using HRT. The proof was in -- women were suffering and dying from putting all that synthetic horse urine into their bodies.
When those stories hit the news back in 2002, my mother finally stopped taking using the stuff -- after 36 years of doing so, and after at least seven or eight of hearing me suggest she stop. I guess it takes a while for your family to accept that you might occasionally know what you're talking about. My mom is fine -- thankfully -- but she has buried both of her sisters in the last few years. Both died from hormone-related cancers, one of breast cancer and one of ovarian cancer.
There are alternatives to help women going through menopause to deal with the sometimes unpleasant symptoms. The simple use of progesterone cream -- applied to the skin -- has helped many women (and some men) get through the "change of life." Herbs such as pomegranate, soy, black cohosh, licorce, red clover, kava, and others, offer relief to stressed-out, hot-flashing women, as do increased levels of calcium and magnesium. Here's an article from an issue of Energy Times magazine about phytoestrogenic herbs.
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