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You have 7 million eggs as a female fetus that is 5 months old. However we only ovulate 400 eggs, and human females start losing viable healthy eggs before you enter menopause, and this is the official way we enter menopause, around the age of 51 or 52. The later you enter menopause, and the later you have had a child (over 40, and over 45 is even better), the more likely it is you will live past 100. Genetically it is determined how quickly you will enter menopause, and those having a later menopause may still have to deal with contraception and menstrual cycles, but as for hormone levels having a later menopause means that you will be healthier. Many years of health ovarian hormone exposure is good for much of our health. There is something about the number of fertile years, and how you use those fertile years that predicts how long you are going to live. Of course more than the age of menopause will determine longevity. If you have a baby later in life, over the age of 3...

Hot flashes are generally self limiting, and yet some women will persist in having them. You and your gnyo can decide if you should treat. Non-hormonal lifestyle changes will be very beneficial to many women as well. Hormones are thought to be the most effective, and there are hundreds of safe and effective dosages. Be wary of dosages and forms that are not safe, and be sure you have a health check clearance before you begin on any. There are many women who can not find relief with hormones, and many who cannot safely take hormones. There are a variety of medications used for depression, anxiety, and hypertension that are used off label for the treatment of Hot Flashes. Women want to know the comparison of effectiveness of these forms of treatments, and yet few trials actually do include all the approaches to treatment. New studies have looked at some of these therapies as compared with placebo and lifestyle changes.f Menopausal women with moderate vasomotor symptoms may find relief...

Do you have hot flashes? If so we'd like you to come and discuss as there are some very interesting new studies that can help design more effective therapies for this. Exactly the cause we aren't really sure yet. But they aren't necessarily good in our modern society as they have been linked with stroke, cardiovascular disease, dementia and even earlier death! Hot flashes disturb sleep and can even cause sleep apnea. White spots that appear in the brains of aging women are more common with diseases like diabetes and hypertension, but occur in menopause. It's these spots that can lead to more thought disruption in older women.  Menopausal hot flashes can be so miserable, and so harmful to health, yet are so universal, it's always perplexed gynos as to why they exist. The numbers of serious medical consequences: more cognitive impairment, more heart disease, less sleep, more depression, and other unwanted consequences of hot flashes have belied the thinkin...

Were you ever on hormone therapy? Were you ever taken off hormone therapy? Were you ever too scared for hormone therapy? All of this is understandable in light of new findings that politics, and 'alternative interpretations' hampered the interpretation of the Women's Health Initiative study findings. To read about this perspective here are some editorial comments . The good news is that there has been aggressive study of the following menopausal helpful strategies because of this 'misinterpretation' of the risks of hormone therapy: 1. A search for effective bust even safer dosages 2. A search for alternative therapy 3. A better understanding of long term bone health and the risks of alternative therapies 4. Nutritional and fitness management of menopause 5. Non-medication laser therapy for sexual pain with menopause 6. Non-hormonal management of irregular bleeding in perimenopause All of these have significantly helped women, and thus we have to argue tha...

Menopausal hot flashes are so miserable, yet so universal, it's always perplexed gynos as to why they exist. The numbers of serious medical consequences: more cognitive impairment, more heart disease, less sleep, more depression, and other unwanted consequences of hot flashes have belied the thinking that these hot flashes could be beneficial for women. Were they just the obvious signal to males of paleolithic times that this woman was no longer fertile? Since few women lived to the age of menopause until the 20th century, it's hard to figure that this was the 'societal reason' that favored the survival of women with hot flashes. T wo anthropologists at the University of Mass have come up with their own theory about hot flashes in menopause .  This study was also reported in the journal Menopause volume 22, 2015. They have postulated that low estrogen post delivery triggers these heat surges that would warm newborn babies in their mother's embrace. Many studies do ...

Estrogen treatment works by estrogen unlocking it's own activity in a cell. It works to fit into what is called an estrogen receptor, and it only works by binding to an estrogen receptor. And as hormone levels drop, so to do the receptors for that same hormone. Thus, for estrogen to work on vaginal tissues, it needs to unlock (regrow) it's own receptors. One reason it's been known to take a long time and a stronger dosage for estrogen to work on vaginal tissues. The MonaLisa laser works on a deeper and different cellular mechanism to heal the thinned and atrophic vaginal tissues, and doesn't need to unlock just estrogen receptors. This is the basis for how  CO2 laser therapies have been successfully used to treat skin lesions such as seborheic keratosis, syringomas, xanthelasmas around the eyes, warts, tonal disease as well as to anti-age the skin. A lot is known of the regenerative properties of the tissues that are thinned an atrophic due to aging, hormonal changes...

Involutional melancholy is thought of as a disease of perimenopausal women affecting women from ages 40-55, but in fact men of about 50-65 have approximately the same incidence. Because the syndrome was always defined as having a significant component of hypochondrias, as well as being able to be classified with other mood disorders, it is no longer recognized as a disease by the American Psychiatric Society. It's existence as a separate condition has been argued hotly over the past one hundred years . The term involutional melancholy was actually coined in 1986 by the founder of modern and scientific psychiatry Emil Kraepelin. He felt that the process of aging precipitates a unique mood disorder he noted that had features of being depressed or chronically sad, agitation or versions of mania, patients feel isolated, depersonalized and delusions of bodily change and fear of aging, and was specifically at the time of menopause. Some psychiatric researchers say that the diso...

The chronic progression of estrogen changes on the vaginal health of women has been in focus that women are coming to understand that some aspects of menopause have to be managed beyond the first few years of menopause. But, the concept of risk management for more serious consequences after we stop hormone therapy is just now coming into focus. If a woman started hormone therapy during the time she transitioned into menopause most studies acknowledge she will have a lower rate of heart disease, but now a new study confirms that over time there are potential serious consequences of stopping the therapy. In 2014 we reported the findings of a group of New York researchers out of Columbia in conjunction with scientist at Bethesda and Gynuity and Christiana Care Health Systems in Newark, DE looked at weight, your cholesterol, and other chronic disease progression, such as hypertension, in women stopping hormone therapy. Hormone Therapy will protect against osteoporosis, cardiovascular...