Dr Whiting on Menopause and the Dangers of HRT

admin | May 06, 2010 | Comments 17

With the progression of the baby boom generation reaching senior status, focus on the health challenges facing that generation is receiving greater attention. For women, entering the menopause and all that can be connected with it, there can be several challenges. For millions of women transition to and through the menopause goes without effort, but for a select number of women this transition is anything but smooth. In fact it can be living hell. The hot flashes, night sweats, mood swings, depression, and vaginal dryness, to name few, can make life very uncomfortable. For this reason, tens of thousands of women have sought relief by using hormone replacement therapy. Recent studies have shown, however, that HRT can be very dangerous. The dangers of HRT will be discussed shortly. Because of these dangers, many women have been looking for natural menopause relief through natural menopause remedies. The nutrition field has been able to come to the rescue by providing natural menopause supplements that have been effective when used as an alternative to potentially dangerous HRT. These natural menopause solutions will be discussed shortly as well. As the ovaries cease producing key sex hormones the female body begins to enter the menopause, the period of declining menstruation. As the ovaries produce less and less sex hormone, the adrenal glands are designed to step up to the task and begin producing small amounts of sex hormone, enough to maintain bodily function but not …