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Menopause

“Doc, I just want to check my Hormone levels”

I often get ladies wanting to check their hormone levels to see if they are perimenopausal The truth is that if you are roughly the right age, with the right symptoms of the perimenopause, then we do not need to check your hormone levels. In fact, this can actually be unhelpful. Why? The perimenopause is a time …

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Hormone Replacement Therapy: The Elixir of Youth or a Deadly Poison?

Hormone Replacement Therapy: is it the Elixir of Youth or is it going to kill you? HRT replaces the lack of estrogen that is causing hot flushes and other menopausal symptoms. Older, flawed studies, especially one called “The Women’s Health Initiative Study” back in 2002 scared the living daylights out of doctors and patients alike….However, we now realise that …

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What’s the Difference between the Perimenopause and the menopause?

What’s the Difference between the Menopause and Perimenopause?   Women are born with their full complement of eggs or follicles. At puberty, we start to develop these follicles every month and the dominant one gets ovulated. The perimenopause is when a woman’s ovaries start to produce fewer follicles and oestrogen levels fall. Ovulation can be …

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