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Your Brain’s RAM and Processing Speed ARE Impacted by Hormonal Changes During the Menopause Transition

admin — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 03:02:21 +0000

Your claims of brain fog, senior moments, or whatever you want to call the small but frequent memory lapses you experience during the menopause transition are real, according to the findings of a new study just published in Neurology journal . Researchers spent four years investigating the effects of the menopause transition and hormone use on three areas of cognitive function; processing speed, verbal memory and working memory. They concluded that mid-life women, particularly those in the late-perimenopause stage (they haven’t have a period in three to 11 months) were not able to learn as well as they had during pre-menopause. The good news is that their test scores eventually improved and rebounded to pre-menopause levels once they hit post-menopause (no period for 12 months), indicating that “menopause related cognitive difficulties may be time-limited.” The impact of hormone treatments on cognitive function were also evaluated. They found that if you started taking hormones before your final menstrual period, the hormones had a “beneficial effect” on cognitive function. The opposite was true for women who began hormone therapy during the post-menopause transition. In those cases, cognitive performance was worse! So, if you’re a mid-life woman (mid 40s to early 50s) who is struggling to learn new computer skills, or returning to school for a degree, cut yourselves some slack and know that your body’s hormones, which have always been in control, will take a temporary performance break as you approach menopause. Be sure to read (Bay area physician) Doc Gurley’s humorous take on this study: “Are You Moron-o-pausal? which appears in her City Brights online column for the San Francisco Chronicle

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Scientific studies show that magnesium supplements can reverse arthritis and osteoporosis!

admin — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:48:10 +0000

If you suffer from osteoarthritis, you know how painful, swollen joints can put a damper on everyday activities. Osteoarthritis is characterized as a general wearing out of the joints, due to wear and tear. It is distinguished from rheumatoid arthritis, which is a systemic condition. While there are medications to slow the progress of rheumatoid arthritis, there are none available today for osteoarthritis. Your physician may simply prescribe pain medication to deal with the pain and leave it at that. As anyone with osteoarthritis knows, taking pain pills on an ongoing basis is no way to live. However, many recent studies irrefutably demonstrate that magnesium supplements can not only reverse bone loss, but can actually rebuild your bone tissue. When magnesium supplements, in a 2:3 balanced ratio of calcium-magnesium are taken, bone density has increased by up to a startling 11% in just nine months! Osteoarthritis is just the beginning.

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Researchers Prove That Exercise Makes You Feel Better

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 23:33:26 +0000

Exercise makes women around the time of menopause feel better, even when they don’t lose weight and even when they devote less time to it than is generally recommended. That’s what researchers concluded at the end of a six-month controlled study that measured the effect of 50 percent, 100 percent and 150 percent of the physical activity recommendation on 430 sedentary postmenopausal women. “Our results indicate that improved quality of life can be added to the list of exercise benefits and that these improvements are dose dependent and independent of weight loss, at least among people similar to this study’s sample,” Corby K. Martin, PhD, from Louisiana State University System, in Baton Rouge, and colleagues write.

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You May Be Eligible for a Free, Hormone Health Makeover

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:52:37 +0000

A writer for PREVENTION MAGAZINE, told me in an email that she is looking for women who have not yet been treated for their perimenopause/menopause symptoms and would like to get help from an expert as part of a hormone health makeover for a story she is writing. (The makeover would involve only natural and alternative remedies – NO HRT). She’s specifically looking for women whose main menopause symptom(s) are: • hot flashes/night sweats • trouble sleeping • low libido • difficulty concentrating/poor memory If you are interested in being profiled in the article, please email elumiere@nyc.rr.com directly with your name, age, hometown, and a brief description of your main hormonal complaint. Please note that you must live in or close to New York City (nearby NJ or CT is okay) and be willing to let the magazine publish your name, age, and photo. Candidates also might be asked to appear in a photo shoot in NYC at the end of their hormonal health makeover.

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Read this if you are Dating Online! New Background Check Website Provides Nationwide Criminal Checks to the Online Dating Industry

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 22:46:41 +0000

SweetheartChecks.com makes it possible for women and men to easily discover if their potential date has a criminal history. United States of America – Rancho Santa Margarita, CA – May 20, 2009 – SweetheartChecks.com was created to assist both women and men in protecting themselves from potentially dangerous situations while using online dating websites. Now consumers can research a person’s criminal history in the United States with complete anonymity, including whether their subject is a registered sex offender. Cathy Taylor, President of SweetheartChecks.com talks about why she started this new service, “Online dating brings new and higher levels of risk to the world of romance.

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Stop Drinking Alcohol

admin — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:44:28 +0000

Whatever people tell you, alcohol is one of the most addictive drugs ever invented, and possibly the most dangerous. Alcohol abuse has been a problem for practically as long as alcohol has been around, and it is a worse problem than with any other drug. Many people struggle in vain for years to stop drinking alcohol, even as the drug destroys their bodies and minds. Drinking rehab is much more popular than any other sort of drug rehab program, and it will only keep growing. In my particular case, my problem drinking was related to drug control. Originally, I used to smoke pot, but it was much easier to get wasted on alcohol

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A Dietitian Offers a New “Weigh” of Life, Not a New Diet

admin — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:58:40 +0000

Not too long ago, I wrote about a recent study that concluded that simply consuming less calories is more important than the type of diet you choose when trying to lose weight. Portion control is a key factor in any weight loss program, but it can be tricky. Dietitians recommend portions the size of our palm, or a hockey puck. But whose palm? (Your husband’s if you’re real hungry) And just how big is a hockey puck anyway? So you might be interested in a new weight management tool that I found online. It’s called the Northstar Portion System , a series of 11 containers with lids in various sizes that will help you measure healthy portion sizes for everything you eat and drink. The System also includes eight laminated cards for comparison of hard to measure foods such as a muffin, burger or baked good. There’s a helpful guidebook and a daily guide to keep track of how many portions you eat from each food group

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Living longer makes preventing wrinkles more important than ever!

admin — Tue, 19 May 2009 15:58:51 +0000

Any woman will tell you that preventing wrinkles is a primary beauty objective! Now that our life expectancy is going up, we certainly don’t want to look like we’re 90 by the time we’re 70! Today, with global warming making our skin more vulnerable to the harmful UV rays, along with environmental pollution which damages skin, everyone should start taking steps in preventing wrinkles, sooner rather than later. Women aren’t the only ones who worry. Men, too, are now paying closer attention to the appearance of the dreaded wrinkles, probably due to the life expectancy factor. Just twenty years ago, young women were not into skin and wrinkle reducing creams. Their still young and fresh looking skin was just fine, with nary a wrinkle to be seen. While Mom or Grandma might occasionally give a pep talk on ‘taking care of your skin’, girls considered face creams to be for ‘old ladies’ and spent their money on clothes and shoes instead.

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Cherries for Belly Fat…and More!

admin — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:39:35 +0000

I was excited to read that a recent study has found that a tart-cherry enriched diet can reduce belly fat. That’s certainly good news; eat something sweet and delicious and lose fat at the same time! Is this for real? I searched the internet to find more details about the report and lo and behold I found that tart cherries also may lower the risk of metabolic syndrome and cardiovascular disease by lowering total cholesterol levels, triglycerides, insulin and fasting glucose levels after 90 days. But that’s not all. According to the report, “cherry-fed groups had lower levels of a plasma marker of oxidative damage and increased blood antioxidant capacity – not surprising since cherries are one of the richest sources of antioxidants. Additionally, the cherry-enriched diets reduced “fatty liver” or the accumulation of triglycerides and cholesterol in the liver.” Can you guess who funded this study? The Cherry Marketing Institute, of course, and their public relations firm, not the research facility, is the contact for information. This is yet another example of a research study reaching a conclusion that the funder is seeking.

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Sex and the Menopause

admin — Tue, 12 May 2009 17:18:31 +0000

Referred to in hushed tones as “the change” or dismissed as little more than a series of hot flushes, even in today’s liberal society the very word menopause is still somewhat taboo. Menopausal and post-menopausal women, their loved ones and even GPs are still reluctant to discuss the effects it can have on women’s love lives. New survey results [i] published recently in Menopause International*, however, reveal a genuine and pressing need to raise awareness of issues around the menopause and to banish misconceptions based on the cliché that women at certain stages of life would happily forsake sex for a nice cup of tea. The survey of 2,527 peri- and post-menopausal women – conducted by the physician-led site https://mail.hostedexchange.com/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.menopausematters.co.uk and now promoted by pure intimacy experts Yes ( http://www.yestointimacy.com/ ) – showed that 84 per cent of these felt that an active sex life was important: In other words, women who are going or have gone through the menopause still want to make love with their partners as much as they ever did. Read more

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