GynoFiles

Many women want to treat their menopause completely naturally: no treatment at all. Others want therapies from nature: such as plant hormones. Plant hormones are tried for a variety of gyno treatments. No end to the talk (or YAMmer)  of Yams and hormones, be the talk estrogen or progesterone. A reader sent me this web quote. "The Yoruba, a large Nigerian ethnic group, have the highest rate of twinning in the world, at 45 twins per 1,000 live births. Some researchers have claimed this may be because of high consumption of a specific type of yam, Dioscorea rotundata or white yam containing a natural hormone phytoestrogen which may stimulate the ovaries to release an egg from each side." This yam is more commonly called the Kokoro, and it's commonly in the diet of  in Benin and Togo as well as Nigeria. Usually the talk is of the yams producing progesterone, and it is true the Yams do contain progesterone precursors, and serve as a cheap source of progesterone an...

Safety and effectiveness is what women want in their menopausal therapies. Yam cream is a hormone therapy for the signs and symptoms of menopause . Yams contain a plant progesterone. More accurately, phytoprogesterone , there are no actual human progesterone in a product that only contains a yam source of progesterone. Thus, a yam cream is not technically a bioidentical in the sense of bioidentical for humans, but it is a natural hormone in one sense, and that term bioidentical gets extended to these products by some people. The term wild yam, is the common name for a plant that is more accurately called the Dioscorea villosa. It can be cultivated, and the creams are no t t ypically made from plants foraged from the wild.   The yams also contain plant saponins which may be able to affect sour ability to produce estrogen. In menopause, it's not likely that a yam cream will help the production of estrogen from an ovary that has essentially run out of eggs and run out of the abilit...

Women get that positive pregnancy test and they want to know so much more! What is my due date, am I having a boy or a girl, am I having twins! And when they have those questions we quote the following odds of twins We have between 100-120 chance of having twins, and naturally triplets occur about 1.7900. Quadruplets once in 370,000...approximately. The studies vary by your age and ethnic background. And what if you live in a little known place the town of Igbo-Ora in Nigeria Africa, called The Land of Twins in a BBC report . There they have about five times the rate of twins, or about 5 out of 100. The Yoruba people there may have a reason for their twinning. The Yoruba's diet is heavy with a type of yam known as the cassava. Although there has been a bit of research into establishing what substance of the yam causes twinning, it's not really confirmed, and other than the obvious health benefits of yams in our diet (lower glycemic index than potatoes) it's probably not go...

You hear the word progesterone used a lot. This general class of hormone, and it's synthetic varieties is about ubiquitous as any medication in current use. If a compound acts like a progesterone its classified as a "progestin" and this class of medicines is very broad and some form or other is in the birth control pill, its made by the ovary, it's made by the placenta, it's used to prevent miscarriages, its been a treatment for PMS, it's been used to bring on missing periods, to prevent preterm birth, and it's used to protect the uterus from estrogen use in menopausal hormone therapy. So when we say there is a tug of war out there of information on which is better to be taking, natural or synthetic, we want you to understand there is a lot of scientific evidence and some of it conflicting. In general you can think of two big classes of medicines if we are just talking about menopausal hormones: we are talking about Natural Progesterone vs Synthetic...