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The Myth about the Magic of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)

Today more and more menopausal and perimenopausal women are seeking safer alternatives to HRT, the standard treatment for menopause symptoms, particularly now with the recent findings of a long-term controlled clinic trial. The Women's Health Initiative study (WHI), recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), found the combined drugs, estrogen and progestin, increased the risk of invasive breast cancer by 26%, a 41% increase in strokes, a 29% increase in heart attacks, and doubled rates of blood clots in the legs and lungs. This is not the first study to show increased risks, but it is the first one the scientific community is listening to...

STRESS AND THE ADRENAL GLANDS

"To understand the mechanism of stress gives physicians a new approach to treatment of illness but it can also give us all a new way of life, a new philosophy to guide our actions in conformity with natural laws." Hans Selye, M.D.

Stress. We all use this term when life seems to be pushing us too fast. But, do we really understand how it affects us in the long term and how the body responds to the constant stress? A stressor can be defined as anything that throws your body out of balance requiring adaptation by the body. The stress response is your body's attempt to restore balance.