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Interestingly, in the same study, women 45 years or older who were not taking replacement hormones were significantly less likely to experience symptoms of severe oestrogen deficiency than those t ...
Eat a variety of foods and increase your intake of plant foods. This increases the number of different phytochemicals you ingest and decreases the likelihood that any one type will be ingested in ...
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After years of being the odd one out against the likes of Dr John Studd, Theresa Gorman, MP, and broadcaster Dr Miriam Stoppard, Britain’s greatest apologists for hormone replacement therapy, I am pleased to witness that HRT is finally on the...
Hip and pelvis fractures are a major health worry, especially among older, postmenopausal women. The risk of a fracture rises to 17 per cent in women over the age of 50, and up to 20 per cent of those who suffer such bone fractures die within a year...
Many of the side effects of tamoxifen may be worth risking if you have cancer. However the risk/benefit equation changes considerably if you are healthy and offered the drug as a just in case mea ...
HRT has been sold to women as a miraculous cure for the diseases of old age. ...
In their clamour to promote HRT as a "natural" and therefore "healthy" hormone, the drug companies and the medical profession have conveniently overlooked that there are natural sources of estroge ...
