What Doctors Don't Tell YouQ Having congratulated myself on sailing through the menopause with no hot flushes, I now find myself struck down with vaginal atrophy.
A reader wanted to know of any health risks associated with soya and phytoestrogens. It's a subject we've covered before, but it's worth a revisit. One reader has heard that the fermented forms of soy, such as miso, natto and tempeh, are the most...
SOYA: Why you might need to think again
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 ...
Widespread use of synthetic estrogens like the contraceptive pill and hormone replacement therapy may account for the dramatic fall in sperm counts of men over the past 30 to 50 years. ...
The humble soybean may protect you against developing breast cancer. ...
Of the several types of phytoestrogens, isoflavones (found mainly in legumes, particularly soya beans), lignans (found in wholegrains, flaxseed, berries and nuts) and coumoestans (found in forages ...
General
* Check female hormone levels (by a simple lab test) as these conditions are all hormone-related. The key is to stabilise the hormonal situation causing the cyclic upset
Breast cancer was a rare disease in 1900. Today, by some estimates, one in every eight women will contract breast cancer, many during their childbearing years. The literature on breast cancer show ...
Our two part series on HRT (WDDTY vol 4 nos 9 and 10) generated perhaps more mail than any other subject we've ever covered. Among your comments were a number of questions that deserve thoughtful ...
