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RESTORE, REBUILD, & MAINTAIN. Without hormones, women wither and dry up after their ovaries stop producing hormones. Atrophy of the vaginal area brings the most patients to my office: “It felt like he was stabbing me, tearing me apart!” The vaginal area doesn’t just become dry, the opening actually narrows and shrinks. Over the [...]
Are Hormones SAFE? The bad news: Breast cancer has risen 256% since 1950. One of the largest studies done to date, the Women’s Health Initiative Study showed that women who took only estrogen had LOWER rates of breast cancer than the placebo group (the group who took no hormones). And, remarkably this advantage continued [...]
Ovarian Failure The slender, nervous appearing woman told me she was the CEO of a company and thought maybe she was losing her mind. She forgot things, couldn’t sleep, made lists and then forgot about making a list, night sweats and hot flashes. She had been to several doctors who had done complex tests [...]
Ovarian Failure Early menopause, “ovarian failure,” means that the periods stop, vaginal dryness, hot flashes, and other symptoms begin before the age of 40. Some women wait a year or more, hoping that the periods will start again, suffering needlessly. All this time, the bones begin to crumble into the urine, the vagina withers, [...]
Change is inevitable, and everyone’s hormones slowly dry up. Bones begin to crumble in the urine, skin thins and wrinkles, and many other signs unpleasantly appear which signal that the life giving sex hormones are slowly disappearing. It begins very insidiously with feeling warmish, first at night, then all the time. [...]
A DEFICIENCY OF HORMONES WITH MULTI-SYSTEM EFFECTS Hot flashes, vaginal dryness, memory loss, bone loss, tooth loss, skin wrinkling, irregular heart beat, mood changes—menopause impacts the entire body. But the number one symptom that drives women to their doctor is the hot flash. “I was showing a million dollar property and suddenly [...]
Men’s testosterone gradually declines, usually about 1% per year after age 40. New research has revealed that men need estradiol, too, for their bones and brain health. Recently, I treated a man who had been prescribed estradiol lowering drugs along with an incorrect (low) amount of testosterone—his main problem? He could not think clearly, felt [...]
Severe cases have even warranted a psychiatric diagnosis: PMDD or premenstrual dysphoric disorder. The suggested treatment? An antidepressant. The true cure for this hormonal problem has been known since 1954, when the brilliant British physician, Dr. Katharina Dalton, wrote about giving progesterone injections in oil. Over 50 years later, we have oral micronized (ground very [...]
