Headlines
once again are announcing a major reconsideration of
and reversal in women’s health care treatment.
Support for Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT), the preferred
medical treatment for menopause, was shattered by the
American Medical Association’s termination of
their long-term estrogen-progestin therapy study. Data
produced from this study presented evidence of a direct
correlation between increased risk of cardiovascular
disease, stroke and breast cancer and the use of HRT. |
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Reconsideration
of the HRT approach allows an additional re-evaluation
to take place: Pharmaceutical Solutions (HRT) or Natural
Alternative Solutions. HRT was predicated on several
misguided concepts and myths of menopause. First, the
natural process of menopause was categorized as an estrogen
deficiency disease and a bio-marker of women’s
emotional, mental and physical decline. Evidence points
to the opposite: an excess of estrogen or an imbalance
of the estrogen/progesterone ratio. |
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A
second significant concept of HRT was the assumption
that synthetic hormones are bio-equivalent to natural
hormones. However, these synthetics are powerful steroid
drugs that do not perform all the major functions of
progesterone and demonstrate numerous potential risks
and side effects. Validity of these concepts and myths
are not to be found. Now women and their health care
providers are free to treat menopause and it’s
symptoms as a natural process of life. |
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Re-focusing
on the natural life cycle process of women and hormones
leads directly to an understanding and potential solutions
to numerous debilitating menstrual symptoms. The complexity
of women’s hormones and their influence on her
physiological, emotional and mental process requires
simplification. For brevity and clarity, the focus is
on the balance between estrogen and progesterone. This
balance or rather correction of an imbalance is the
key to alternative care. |
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The
presence of hormonal symptoms may represent an imbalance
between estrogen and progesterone. Per-menopausal, menopausal
and postmenopausal estrogen excess or “Estrogen
Dominance” leads to many undesirable and debilitating
symptoms. Alternative measures to alleviate menopausal
symptoms are inherent in The Slender Lady Lifestyle
Program and a new Nutraceutical product: SL Progesterone:
All Natural Micronized USP Progesterone.
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