By Winnifred Cutler
Many girls are at a loss whilst it comes tocharting their top coursethrough menopause—butyou should not have to be
Connecting fresh clinical facts between hormones, sexuality, bone and cardiovascular health and wellbeing, reminiscence, surgical procedure, and breast melanoma, Dr. Cutler explains how helpful sturdy HRT regimens are on your toughness and basic overall healthiness and the way to enhance your power with vitamin, workout, and hormonal and substitute treatments that work.
""Excellent activity reviewing the numerous matters in terms of perimenopause and menopause. . . . Your bankruptcy on fibroids could be very necessary to shoppers. The textual content is straightforward to stick to, the illustrations are fantastically transparent, and the references are excellent.""
—John J. Sciarra, M.D., Ph.D., earlier president,International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics
""What inspired me so much have been the passionate dedication to scrupulously performed learn and the readability with which the consequences have been awarded so any clever lady can comprehend them.""
—Regula Burki, M.D., FACOG, gynecological medical professional and menopause specialist
""Dr. Cutler dispassionately experiences and synthesizes the to be had literature to craft scientifically sound techniques that may be used to optimize the standard of women's health.""
—Elizabeth Genovese, M.D., FACOEM, FAADEP
""A welcome reference for my sufferers and others drawn to women's healthiness. Readable, informative, and concise. lengthy overdue.""
—Millicent Zacher, D.O., FACOG, Thomas Jefferson University
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549 This is my conclusion, too, and I intend to show you which hormones make the most sense—and I’ll provide the citations that support my claims. The Unambiguous Benefits of Hormonal Therapies The last twenty-five years have produced a solid body of research. Much of that science demonstrates the profound benefits of hormone replacement therapy. Hormones impact an astonishing array of body parts, systems, and senses, including the skin, the vagina, the nose, the voice, the teeth, the eyes, sleep, the cells, and intestinal function.
731 Other Delivery Routes for Estrogen Non-oral modes of delivery include patches and gels, vaginally inserted estrogen pills, a slow-release ring that is placed in the vagina, tablets you place under the tongue, or lozenges you place between your gum and cheek. These other routes all avoid the “first pass” in the liver, something like diluting the bouillon cube fully before it gets into the soup pot. These nonswallowed routes more closely mimic what happens in the fertile woman’s body as her ovaries secrete hormones into the bloodstream, in tiny, repeating pulses all day long.
Hormonal therapies can help. 551 6. Estrogen and your voice. The larynx, the box-shaped part of the respiratory tract between the base of the tongue and the top of the windpipe, “the voice box,” is an estrogen-receptive organ in the same way that the vaginal mucosa is. 119 For example, only 16 percent of estrogen users but 62 percent of those using no hormones reported a problem with hoarseness. Similar benefits for estrogen users were found for a deepening of the voice (11 percent versus 31 percent) and for a change in the timbre (0 versus 37 percent).