What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About
About a third, or 35 percent, of postmenopausal women (usually those with less body fat) may benefit from low-dose estrogen supplementation. HRT doses of estrogen are typically greater than a postmenopausal woman needs.
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Routine conventional medical treatment involves serotonin receptor agonists such as sumatriptan and naratriptan which can cause heart attacks, or ergotamine medication (often combined with caffeine), which, to achieve success, may result in side effects of muscle pains, numbness and tingling in the fingers and toes, rapid (or slowed) heart rate, an
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The recommended dose of DHEA for women is 5 to 10 mg a day. If you have your DHEA levels checked with a blood test, remember that DHEA-S is the relatively inactive form. Saliva DHEA testing is a more accurate measurement of the active DHEA in the blood.
John R. Lee, Virginia Hopkins • What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About
This is because estrogen causes dilation of blood vessels, and thus contributes to the cause(s) of migraines.
John R. Lee, Virginia Hopkins • What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About
Extremely large doses of progesterone can cause sleepiness,
John R. Lee, Virginia Hopkins • What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About
They very likely have an allergic or chemically mediated trigger and are related to stress. They vary in severity, sometimes
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Pregnenolone does appear to have some benefit on rheumatoid arthritis symptoms. Those who have this autoimmune disease may want to try 10 to 50 mg three times daily. Give it at least a month to work. Some clinicians use doses of 100 to 200 mg daily, but please use these amounts only under the supervision of a health care professional who will monit
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Enormous doses can cause an anesthetic or drunken effect.
John R. Lee, Virginia Hopkins • What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About
these years may help prevent breast cancer. What About Mammograms? Mammograms are low-energy X-ray views of breasts obtained for the purpose of detecting breast cancer earlier than by palpation, in the hope that the risk of dying from breast cancer can be reduced. Though this hope may appear sensible to most, appearance and reality are not necessar
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