Transfer Factor
This Food Supplement is not a vitamin, mineral, herb, antibody or enzyme. It is a completely new class of nutrient. Transfer factors are like small "brains" regulating your immune system. No other nutrient even comes close to doing what transfer factors can do. The supplement is based on colostrum extracts, which contain thousands of transfer factor molecules. Colostrum is found in mothers' breast milk and during first feeds it delivers or transfers 'factors' to a baby's immune system, which educate it to fight off disease and infection. This natural food supplement was first introduced to America in 1998, after nearly 50 years of research and development. Transfer Factor Plus raises new killer (NK) cell activity 248% above normal baseline - 500% greater than previously tested natural substances - according to a study carried out in California by Dr. Daryl See, Director of the Institute of Longevity Medicine.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Herbal Medicine
Alternative Herbal Medicine
We provide alternative herbal medicine, natural alternative medicine, and health remedies. We offer the latest info on natural herbs, dietary supplements, vitamins, and alternative herbal remedies.
Alternative Health and Herbs Remedies in Albany, OR is clearly focused on bringing you the latest information on alternative medicine and alternative health remedies, as well as being a great alternative health resource. You can get an alternative health remedy many places these days, so be sure you are getting a quality product from a resource you can trust. Health Herbs prides itself on bringing the finest alternative health remedies and free health consultations for you that can help you lead a happier healthier life.
Natural Alternative Medicine
We offer all natural alternative medicines and health treatments. Combined with the natural herbal medicines are herbal tinctures (both single herb and combination tinctures), teas, fiber, and other dietary vitamin and mineral supplements and colloidal silver information. We are both the manufacturer and distributor in Albany, Oregon of our alternative health treatment products. This allows you, the customer, to be confident in the quality and purity of those products you choose for your natural medicine needs when looking for herbs for health and healing.
We provide alternative herbal medicine, natural alternative medicine, and health remedies. We offer the latest info on natural herbs, dietary supplements, vitamins, and alternative herbal remedies.
Alternative Health and Herbs Remedies in Albany, OR is clearly focused on bringing you the latest information on alternative medicine and alternative health remedies, as well as being a great alternative health resource. You can get an alternative health remedy many places these days, so be sure you are getting a quality product from a resource you can trust. Health Herbs prides itself on bringing the finest alternative health remedies and free health consultations for you that can help you lead a happier healthier life.
Natural Alternative Medicine
We offer all natural alternative medicines and health treatments. Combined with the natural herbal medicines are herbal tinctures (both single herb and combination tinctures), teas, fiber, and other dietary vitamin and mineral supplements and colloidal silver information. We are both the manufacturer and distributor in Albany, Oregon of our alternative health treatment products. This allows you, the customer, to be confident in the quality and purity of those products you choose for your natural medicine needs when looking for herbs for health and healing.
Upcoming Ask-the-expert Online Conference:
Fertility and Pregnancy
Since some breast cancer treatments can affect your ability to have children, preserving your fertility can be a concern for you if you’re looking to start a family after treatment. You probably have some questions: Is there a way to know if you’ll be fertile after treatment? What are some options for preserving your fertility? How does cryopreservation work? A separate but equally confusing reproductive issue is being diagnosed with breast cancer while pregnant. You may be wondering if treatment is safe for you and your baby or what your treatment options are during pregnancy.
Join us on Wednesday, September 10th from 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. EDT for our Ask-the-Expert Online Conference called Fertility and Pregnancy. Kutluk Oktay, M.D. and Leslie R. Schover, Ph.D. will answer your questions about breast cancer treatments that can affect your fertility, options for preserving your fertility, being treated for breast cancer while pregnant, and more.
Kutluk Oktay, M.D. is an internationally recognized specialist in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the Center for Human Reproduction in New York and the director and founder of the Institute for Fertility Preservation.
Leslie R. Schover, Ph.D. is a renowned psychologist with a special interest in helping people resolve or manage their sexual problems, especially those problems connected with a chronic illness such as cancer.
To join the conference on September 10th, go to www.breastcancer.org any time between 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. EDT* and then click on the “Join Conference” button. It’s easy to participate; no special software is required. The live conference will appear in text on your screen. A transcript of the conference will be posted on the site by September 17, 2008.
*Breastcancer.org welcomes conference participants from all over the world. To help you figure out when the conference will take place in your time zone, click here: http://www.breastcancer.org/time.jsp
Since some breast cancer treatments can affect your ability to have children, preserving your fertility can be a concern for you if you’re looking to start a family after treatment. You probably have some questions: Is there a way to know if you’ll be fertile after treatment? What are some options for preserving your fertility? How does cryopreservation work? A separate but equally confusing reproductive issue is being diagnosed with breast cancer while pregnant. You may be wondering if treatment is safe for you and your baby or what your treatment options are during pregnancy.
Join us on Wednesday, September 10th from 7:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. EDT for our Ask-the-Expert Online Conference called Fertility and Pregnancy. Kutluk Oktay, M.D. and Leslie R. Schover, Ph.D. will answer your questions about breast cancer treatments that can affect your fertility, options for preserving your fertility, being treated for breast cancer while pregnant, and more.
Kutluk Oktay, M.D. is an internationally recognized specialist in reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the Center for Human Reproduction in New York and the director and founder of the Institute for Fertility Preservation.
Leslie R. Schover, Ph.D. is a renowned psychologist with a special interest in helping people resolve or manage their sexual problems, especially those problems connected with a chronic illness such as cancer.
To join the conference on September 10th, go to www.breastcancer.org any time between 7:00 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. EDT* and then click on the “Join Conference” button. It’s easy to participate; no special software is required. The live conference will appear in text on your screen. A transcript of the conference will be posted on the site by September 17, 2008.
*Breastcancer.org welcomes conference participants from all over the world. To help you figure out when the conference will take place in your time zone, click here: http://www.breastcancer.org/time.jsp
Nutritional
Generally, a healthy diet is said to include:
Sufficient calories to maintain a person's metabolic and activity needs, but not so excessive as to result in fat storage greater than roughly 30% of body mass. For most people the recommended daily allowance of energy is 2,000 calories, but it depends on age, sex, height, weight, and physical activity. (see Body fat percentage)
Sufficient quantities of fat, including monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat and saturated fat, with a balance of omega-6 and long-chain omega-3 lipids. The recommended daily allowance of fat is 65-80 grams.
Maintenance of a good ratio between carbohydrates and lipids (4:1): four grams of the first for one gram of the second.
Avoidance of excessive saturated fat (20grams recommended limit, although the "evidence" for this claim is forever in debate after the testimony of results provided by the Framingham Heart Study of 1948-1998)
Avoidance of trans fat.
Sufficient essential amino acids ("complete protein") to provide cellular replenishment and transport proteins. All essential amino acids are present in animals. A select few plants (such as soy and hemp) give all the essential acids. A combination of other plants may also provide all essential amino acids (except rice and beans which have limitations).
Essential micronutrients such as vitamins and certain minerals.
Avoiding directly poisonous (e.g. heavy metals) and carcinogenic (e.g. benzene) substances;
Avoiding foods contaminated by human pathogens (e.g. E. coli, tapeworm eggs);
Avoiding chronic high doses of certain foods that are benign or beneficial in small or occasional doses, such as
foods that may burden or exhaust normal functions (e.g. refined carbohydrates without adequate dietary fiber);
foods that may interfere at high doses with other body processes (e.g. refined table salt);
foods or substances with directly toxic properties at high chronic doses (e.g. ethyl alcohol).
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Sufficient calories to maintain a person's metabolic and activity needs, but not so excessive as to result in fat storage greater than roughly 30% of body mass. For most people the recommended daily allowance of energy is 2,000 calories, but it depends on age, sex, height, weight, and physical activity. (see Body fat percentage)
Sufficient quantities of fat, including monounsaturated fat, polyunsaturated fat and saturated fat, with a balance of omega-6 and long-chain omega-3 lipids. The recommended daily allowance of fat is 65-80 grams.
Maintenance of a good ratio between carbohydrates and lipids (4:1): four grams of the first for one gram of the second.
Avoidance of excessive saturated fat (20grams recommended limit, although the "evidence" for this claim is forever in debate after the testimony of results provided by the Framingham Heart Study of 1948-1998)
Avoidance of trans fat.
Sufficient essential amino acids ("complete protein") to provide cellular replenishment and transport proteins. All essential amino acids are present in animals. A select few plants (such as soy and hemp) give all the essential acids. A combination of other plants may also provide all essential amino acids (except rice and beans which have limitations).
Essential micronutrients such as vitamins and certain minerals.
Avoiding directly poisonous (e.g. heavy metals) and carcinogenic (e.g. benzene) substances;
Avoiding foods contaminated by human pathogens (e.g. E. coli, tapeworm eggs);
Avoiding chronic high doses of certain foods that are benign or beneficial in small or occasional doses, such as
foods that may burden or exhaust normal functions (e.g. refined carbohydrates without adequate dietary fiber);
foods that may interfere at high doses with other body processes (e.g. refined table salt);
foods or substances with directly toxic properties at high chronic doses (e.g. ethyl alcohol).
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Saturday, September 6, 2008
Antihypertensive drugs
Antihypertensive drugs for CVD
Journal of Family Practice, Oct, 2006 by Matthew R. Weir, Randy Wexler, David Feldman
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To the Editor:
I enjoyed reading the article by Wexler and Feldman (1) concerning which antihypertensive drugs to choose for patients with cardiovascular disease. I thought their recommendations for treatment of heart failure, coronary artery disease, and stroke were rational and well supported by the literature. However, they did not fully address the major issues that face clinicians regarding the persistent gaps between the identification, awareness, treatment, and control rates for hypertension in our country. (2)
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I was cited as a proponent of an individualized approach to treatment, as opposed to using the more formulaic approach advocated by the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7). (3) Not mentioned in their article is my rationale behind this position: the continuous, graded relationship between blood pressure and cardiovascular events. (4) Unfortunately, threshold-based considerations for treatment do not provide a broad enough perspective; many patients require earlier and more intensive strategies to control blood pressure sufficiently to prevent cardiovascular events.
Healthcare providers need to recognize that choice of appropriate blood pressure goals for individual patients should be predicated on cardiovascular risk rather than on hitting a given threshold. An individualized approach should be thoughtfully considered in each patient based on global cardiovascular risk, which encompasses an understanding of family history; comorbid conditions such as dyslipidemia, diabetes, and obesity; and lifestyle factors such as smoking, dietary, and exercise habits.
Better strategies needed for compliance
As I consider what has changed in the past 10 years in blood pressure-lowering therapeutics, I am struck by 3 key factors that increase the gap between treatment and control rates:
* Greater focus on controlling systolic blood pressure, in large part driven by the Framingham Heart Study indicating that after age 60 years cardiovascular events are better predicted by systolic than diastolic blood pressure (5)
* Recognition that in many patients--particularly those with cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, or diabetes--lower systolic blood pressure goals may be preferable (6-8)
* The fact that increasing numbers of our patients are overweight, sedentary, and have unhealthy eating patterns that limit the efficacy of antihypertensive medications. (9,10)
As a result, patients are less likely to get to goal with I medication. More often than not, patients require anywhere from 2 to 4 medications to control systolic blood pressure. Of added concern is that patients often require multiple medications for other medical problems. Thus, healthcare providers and patients may be less willing to accept more than 1 medication to treat only high blood pressure. This creates substantial "therapeutic inertia" on both the provider and patient sides of treatment planning. (11)
Consequently, improved strategies for overcoming therapeutic inertia are needed, in particular renewed educational efforts as to the importance of achieving lower blood pressure goals, which does make a difference in decreasing the likelihood of cardiovascular events. Moreover, there needs to be greater awareness among providers of strategies to simplify the therapeutic approach.
One option is to consider using more robust fixed-dose combinations to provide better blood pressure control without increasing the number of pills patients must take. I often illustrate to patients the overall effectiveness rate of antihypertensive medications: we generally need at least 1 drug for each 10-mm Hg systolic blood pressure reduction. Consequently, a patient with systolic blood pressure 30 mm Hg above goal will often require 3 medications. Optimally, a fixed-dose combination containing 2 medications that lower blood pressure by different and complementary mechanisms should close at least 20 mm Hg of that gap, in addition to critical dietary changes such as limiting salt intake. The advantage of well-tolerated medicines in simple fixed-dose formulations to facilitate blood pressure control is evident in several clinical trials. (12)
Options for targeting renin-angiotensin blockade
Another important point brought out in the Wexler and Feldman review is that patients at risk for cardiovascular disease often benefit from the use of drugs that block the renin-angiotensin system of the sympathetic nervous system as part of an effective blood pressure-lowering regimen. (13) This is true for patients with a history of heart failure, coronary artery disease, or stroke. Personally, I feel that each patient needs careful and cautious individualization in this regard. I am struck by the consistency of data showing that targeting the renin-angiotensin system as part of a successful blood pressure-lowering regimen provides incremental benefit for reducing the risk of cardiovascular events. These agents should be dosed in the top range approved for controlling blood pressure, as most clinical trials indicate that the higher dosing range is often associated with the greatest cardiovascular risk reduction. (14)
Journal of Family Practice, Oct, 2006 by Matthew R. Weir, Randy Wexler, David Feldman
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To the Editor:
I enjoyed reading the article by Wexler and Feldman (1) concerning which antihypertensive drugs to choose for patients with cardiovascular disease. I thought their recommendations for treatment of heart failure, coronary artery disease, and stroke were rational and well supported by the literature. However, they did not fully address the major issues that face clinicians regarding the persistent gaps between the identification, awareness, treatment, and control rates for hypertension in our country. (2)
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I was cited as a proponent of an individualized approach to treatment, as opposed to using the more formulaic approach advocated by the Seventh Report of the Joint National Committee on Prevention, Detection, Evaluation, and Treatment of High Blood Pressure (JNC 7). (3) Not mentioned in their article is my rationale behind this position: the continuous, graded relationship between blood pressure and cardiovascular events. (4) Unfortunately, threshold-based considerations for treatment do not provide a broad enough perspective; many patients require earlier and more intensive strategies to control blood pressure sufficiently to prevent cardiovascular events.
Healthcare providers need to recognize that choice of appropriate blood pressure goals for individual patients should be predicated on cardiovascular risk rather than on hitting a given threshold. An individualized approach should be thoughtfully considered in each patient based on global cardiovascular risk, which encompasses an understanding of family history; comorbid conditions such as dyslipidemia, diabetes, and obesity; and lifestyle factors such as smoking, dietary, and exercise habits.
Better strategies needed for compliance
As I consider what has changed in the past 10 years in blood pressure-lowering therapeutics, I am struck by 3 key factors that increase the gap between treatment and control rates:
* Greater focus on controlling systolic blood pressure, in large part driven by the Framingham Heart Study indicating that after age 60 years cardiovascular events are better predicted by systolic than diastolic blood pressure (5)
* Recognition that in many patients--particularly those with cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, or diabetes--lower systolic blood pressure goals may be preferable (6-8)
* The fact that increasing numbers of our patients are overweight, sedentary, and have unhealthy eating patterns that limit the efficacy of antihypertensive medications. (9,10)
As a result, patients are less likely to get to goal with I medication. More often than not, patients require anywhere from 2 to 4 medications to control systolic blood pressure. Of added concern is that patients often require multiple medications for other medical problems. Thus, healthcare providers and patients may be less willing to accept more than 1 medication to treat only high blood pressure. This creates substantial "therapeutic inertia" on both the provider and patient sides of treatment planning. (11)
Consequently, improved strategies for overcoming therapeutic inertia are needed, in particular renewed educational efforts as to the importance of achieving lower blood pressure goals, which does make a difference in decreasing the likelihood of cardiovascular events. Moreover, there needs to be greater awareness among providers of strategies to simplify the therapeutic approach.
One option is to consider using more robust fixed-dose combinations to provide better blood pressure control without increasing the number of pills patients must take. I often illustrate to patients the overall effectiveness rate of antihypertensive medications: we generally need at least 1 drug for each 10-mm Hg systolic blood pressure reduction. Consequently, a patient with systolic blood pressure 30 mm Hg above goal will often require 3 medications. Optimally, a fixed-dose combination containing 2 medications that lower blood pressure by different and complementary mechanisms should close at least 20 mm Hg of that gap, in addition to critical dietary changes such as limiting salt intake. The advantage of well-tolerated medicines in simple fixed-dose formulations to facilitate blood pressure control is evident in several clinical trials. (12)
Options for targeting renin-angiotensin blockade
Another important point brought out in the Wexler and Feldman review is that patients at risk for cardiovascular disease often benefit from the use of drugs that block the renin-angiotensin system of the sympathetic nervous system as part of an effective blood pressure-lowering regimen. (13) This is true for patients with a history of heart failure, coronary artery disease, or stroke. Personally, I feel that each patient needs careful and cautious individualization in this regard. I am struck by the consistency of data showing that targeting the renin-angiotensin system as part of a successful blood pressure-lowering regimen provides incremental benefit for reducing the risk of cardiovascular events. These agents should be dosed in the top range approved for controlling blood pressure, as most clinical trials indicate that the higher dosing range is often associated with the greatest cardiovascular risk reduction. (14)
Menopause
Menopause Depression Supplement
Treatments for menopause depression:
Depression affects many women who are approaching menopause. Menopause depression usually lasts for the whole menopause transition (untill the mid 50's), but some women may experience them for the rest of their life. Menopause is not an illness, but a natural process in a woman's body. The symptoms of menopause are just indicators of changes between the hormones estrogen, testosterone and progesterone. These changes result in a hormonal imbalance in a woman's body and cause menopause depression.Though the pharmaceutical companies would have you believe that for the treatment of hormonal imbalance, drugs are the best solution, that isn't the case. Before you make the choice of taking synthetic hormones, you might want to consider less risky approaches, like alternative medicine or lifestyle changes. The medical establishment is becoming increasingly interested in alternative medicine since breast and ovarian cancer as well as heart diseases, blood clots and other side effects are associated with conventional HRT treatment.
Three approaches for treating menopause depression:
Three levels of approaches can be considered for treating menopause depression. These are categorized as: (1) Lifestyle Changes, (2) Alternative Medicine and (3) Drugs and Surgery. You should always start with the least risky approach (lifestyle changes) and go on to riskier approaches (surgery/drugs) only if necessary.
1: Lifestyle changes
The first level involves no risk but may be the hardest way to go. You'll have to restrict yourself from many things. So if you are considering this approach, you will need a strong mind and a positive thinking for managing these changes. Surprisingly, there has been less research on how lifestyle changes can affect hormonal imbalance. Nonetheless, techniques for stress reduction (e.g. yoga), a diet rich in estrogenic food (soy, apples, alfalfa, cherries, potatoes, rice, wheat, yams and other supplements) or even becoming more fit by doing regular exercises, will have positive effects on the treatment of menopause depression.It's not easy to follow up this approach, that's why you might want to consider the next level of treatment. Alternative medicine has proven to be excellent for treating menopause depression in a natural and safe way.
2: Alternative medicine
Alternative approaches involve little or no risk and can be considered as the best and safest way for treating menopause depression. In this level of approach, Herbal remedies and Acupuncture established themselves as the best treatments. Acupuncture is a Chinese medical treatment involving the insertion of very fine sterile needles into the body at specific points according to a mapping of "energy pathways". It's an excellent treatment, but complicated to follow. A successful acupuncture treatment involves time, money and finding the right practitioner. Therefore, most women are looking for less complicated ways of alternative treatment and think herbal remedies are a safe and effective solution. There are basically two types of herbs for treating menopause depression: phytoestrogen and non-estrogenic herbs. The phytoestrogen herbs (e.g. Black Cohosh, Dong Quai and the supplements that derive from them) contain estrogenic components produced by plants. Though, these herbs are good for treating low hormone levels, because they replace some of the missing estrogen hormones, they aren't the best solution for treating hormonal imbalance. As a result of adding hormones from outside, your body will become less responsive to produce estrogen on its own. This causes a further decrease of body-own hormone levels. Unlike phytoestrogen herbs, non-estrogenic herbs, as its name suggests, don't contain any estrogen. These herbs nourish your hormonal glands into producing more efficiently your own natural hormones. This ultimately ends up in balancing not only estrogen, but also progesterone and testosterone. In other words, non-estrogenic herbs (and the supplements that derive from them) stimulate your own hormone production, by inducing the optimal functioning of the pituitary and endocrine glands. Due to this, non-estrogenic herbs, like Macafem, can be considered as the safest way to treat menopause depression naturally.
Nature & Health magazine. Dr. Chacon says:"Macafem nutrients help restore natural hormones in women. Unlike hormone drugs, which are basically resumed in taking synthetic hormones, Macafem acts totally different in your body. It nourishes and stimulates your own natural hormone production, by inducing the optimal functioning of the pituitary and endocrine glands". Click here to read more about Macafem.
A combination of approaches is a good route to take. Lifestyle changes combined with alternative medicine will probably take care of the hormonal imbalance in a more efficiently way. Nonetheless, there will always be some women who need or want to go through the third level of approach. Side effects are inevitable, but sometimes these are worth if considered the relief this approach provides.
3: Drugs and surgery
Interventions at level 3 involve the highest risk and often the highest costs. The most common drug therapy for treating menopause depression in the US is hormone replacement therapy (HRT). There's no doubt that this is the quickest and strongest way to combat hormonal imbalance; but, unfortunately, it entails serious side effects and increases the risk of different cancer types among women, as the following study has proven.
In 1991 the National Institute of Health (NIH) launched the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), the largest clinical trial ever undertaken in the United States . The WHI was designed to provide answers concerning possible benefits and risks associated with use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). This study was canceled in July 2002, after it was proven that synthetic hormones increase risks of ovarian and breast cancer as well as heart disease, blood clots and strokes. The findings were published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.
If you still want to consider this approach, take a visit to your physician, and be more informed about what this treatment option involves. These three levels of approaches are not mutually exclusive. You can use different approaches at different times or combine several at the same time. Nowadays more and more women think dealing with menopause depression is best accomplished via a combination of healthy lifestyle and alternative treatments.
A safe way for treating menopause depression: Non-estrogenic herbs for treating hormonal imbalance, as seen in the second approach, are considered to be the most effective solution. Low costs and the non existence of side effects are only some of the reasons why to prefer this treatment option. Macafem, for example, is an excellent non-estrogenic herb. Its simple, rather than putting hormones from outside into your body artificially, Macafem stimulates your hormone glands to produce the necessary hormones naturally. This is what makes Macafem so unique. Click here to read all about Macafem.
LIST OF THE 34 MENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS
Common Symptoms1. Hot Flashes2. Night Sweats3. Irregular Periods4. Loss of Libido5. Vaginal DrynessChanges6. Fatigue7. Hair Loss8. Sleep Disorders9. Difficulty Concentrating10. Memory Lapses11. Dizziness12. Weight Gain13. Incontinence14. Bloating15. Allergies16. Brittle Nails17. Changes in Odor18. Irregular Heartbeat19. Mood Swings
20. Depression21. Anxiety22. Irritability23. Panic DisorderPains24. Breast Tenderness25. Migraines26. Joint Pain27. Burning Tongue28. Electric Shocks29. Digestive Problems30. Gum Problems31. Muscle Tension32. Itchy Skin33. Tingling ExtremitiesOthers34. Osteoporosis
See all 34 Menopause Symptoms here!
Hot Flashes • Vaginal Dryness • Irregular Periods • Loss of Libido • Night SweatsBreast tenderness • Osteoporosis • Mood swings • Hair loss • DepressionCrashing fatigue • Anxiety • Memory lapses • Difficulty concentrating • Weight gainMigraines & headaches • Sleep disorders
Treatments for menopause depression:
Depression affects many women who are approaching menopause. Menopause depression usually lasts for the whole menopause transition (untill the mid 50's), but some women may experience them for the rest of their life. Menopause is not an illness, but a natural process in a woman's body. The symptoms of menopause are just indicators of changes between the hormones estrogen, testosterone and progesterone. These changes result in a hormonal imbalance in a woman's body and cause menopause depression.Though the pharmaceutical companies would have you believe that for the treatment of hormonal imbalance, drugs are the best solution, that isn't the case. Before you make the choice of taking synthetic hormones, you might want to consider less risky approaches, like alternative medicine or lifestyle changes. The medical establishment is becoming increasingly interested in alternative medicine since breast and ovarian cancer as well as heart diseases, blood clots and other side effects are associated with conventional HRT treatment.
Three approaches for treating menopause depression:
Three levels of approaches can be considered for treating menopause depression. These are categorized as: (1) Lifestyle Changes, (2) Alternative Medicine and (3) Drugs and Surgery. You should always start with the least risky approach (lifestyle changes) and go on to riskier approaches (surgery/drugs) only if necessary.
1: Lifestyle changes
The first level involves no risk but may be the hardest way to go. You'll have to restrict yourself from many things. So if you are considering this approach, you will need a strong mind and a positive thinking for managing these changes. Surprisingly, there has been less research on how lifestyle changes can affect hormonal imbalance. Nonetheless, techniques for stress reduction (e.g. yoga), a diet rich in estrogenic food (soy, apples, alfalfa, cherries, potatoes, rice, wheat, yams and other supplements) or even becoming more fit by doing regular exercises, will have positive effects on the treatment of menopause depression.It's not easy to follow up this approach, that's why you might want to consider the next level of treatment. Alternative medicine has proven to be excellent for treating menopause depression in a natural and safe way.
2: Alternative medicine
Alternative approaches involve little or no risk and can be considered as the best and safest way for treating menopause depression. In this level of approach, Herbal remedies and Acupuncture established themselves as the best treatments. Acupuncture is a Chinese medical treatment involving the insertion of very fine sterile needles into the body at specific points according to a mapping of "energy pathways". It's an excellent treatment, but complicated to follow. A successful acupuncture treatment involves time, money and finding the right practitioner. Therefore, most women are looking for less complicated ways of alternative treatment and think herbal remedies are a safe and effective solution. There are basically two types of herbs for treating menopause depression: phytoestrogen and non-estrogenic herbs. The phytoestrogen herbs (e.g. Black Cohosh, Dong Quai and the supplements that derive from them) contain estrogenic components produced by plants. Though, these herbs are good for treating low hormone levels, because they replace some of the missing estrogen hormones, they aren't the best solution for treating hormonal imbalance. As a result of adding hormones from outside, your body will become less responsive to produce estrogen on its own. This causes a further decrease of body-own hormone levels. Unlike phytoestrogen herbs, non-estrogenic herbs, as its name suggests, don't contain any estrogen. These herbs nourish your hormonal glands into producing more efficiently your own natural hormones. This ultimately ends up in balancing not only estrogen, but also progesterone and testosterone. In other words, non-estrogenic herbs (and the supplements that derive from them) stimulate your own hormone production, by inducing the optimal functioning of the pituitary and endocrine glands. Due to this, non-estrogenic herbs, like Macafem, can be considered as the safest way to treat menopause depression naturally.
Nature & Health magazine. Dr. Chacon says:"Macafem nutrients help restore natural hormones in women. Unlike hormone drugs, which are basically resumed in taking synthetic hormones, Macafem acts totally different in your body. It nourishes and stimulates your own natural hormone production, by inducing the optimal functioning of the pituitary and endocrine glands". Click here to read more about Macafem.
A combination of approaches is a good route to take. Lifestyle changes combined with alternative medicine will probably take care of the hormonal imbalance in a more efficiently way. Nonetheless, there will always be some women who need or want to go through the third level of approach. Side effects are inevitable, but sometimes these are worth if considered the relief this approach provides.
3: Drugs and surgery
Interventions at level 3 involve the highest risk and often the highest costs. The most common drug therapy for treating menopause depression in the US is hormone replacement therapy (HRT). There's no doubt that this is the quickest and strongest way to combat hormonal imbalance; but, unfortunately, it entails serious side effects and increases the risk of different cancer types among women, as the following study has proven.
In 1991 the National Institute of Health (NIH) launched the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), the largest clinical trial ever undertaken in the United States . The WHI was designed to provide answers concerning possible benefits and risks associated with use of hormone replacement therapy (HRT). This study was canceled in July 2002, after it was proven that synthetic hormones increase risks of ovarian and breast cancer as well as heart disease, blood clots and strokes. The findings were published in JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association.
If you still want to consider this approach, take a visit to your physician, and be more informed about what this treatment option involves. These three levels of approaches are not mutually exclusive. You can use different approaches at different times or combine several at the same time. Nowadays more and more women think dealing with menopause depression is best accomplished via a combination of healthy lifestyle and alternative treatments.
A safe way for treating menopause depression: Non-estrogenic herbs for treating hormonal imbalance, as seen in the second approach, are considered to be the most effective solution. Low costs and the non existence of side effects are only some of the reasons why to prefer this treatment option. Macafem, for example, is an excellent non-estrogenic herb. Its simple, rather than putting hormones from outside into your body artificially, Macafem stimulates your hormone glands to produce the necessary hormones naturally. This is what makes Macafem so unique. Click here to read all about Macafem.
LIST OF THE 34 MENOPAUSE SYMPTOMS
Common Symptoms1. Hot Flashes2. Night Sweats3. Irregular Periods4. Loss of Libido5. Vaginal DrynessChanges6. Fatigue7. Hair Loss8. Sleep Disorders9. Difficulty Concentrating10. Memory Lapses11. Dizziness12. Weight Gain13. Incontinence14. Bloating15. Allergies16. Brittle Nails17. Changes in Odor18. Irregular Heartbeat19. Mood Swings
20. Depression21. Anxiety22. Irritability23. Panic DisorderPains24. Breast Tenderness25. Migraines26. Joint Pain27. Burning Tongue28. Electric Shocks29. Digestive Problems30. Gum Problems31. Muscle Tension32. Itchy Skin33. Tingling ExtremitiesOthers34. Osteoporosis
See all 34 Menopause Symptoms here!
Hot Flashes • Vaginal Dryness • Irregular Periods • Loss of Libido • Night SweatsBreast tenderness • Osteoporosis • Mood swings • Hair loss • DepressionCrashing fatigue • Anxiety • Memory lapses • Difficulty concentrating • Weight gainMigraines & headaches • Sleep disorders
Bird Flu
Biden on bird flu
The world is watching US SenatorJoe Biden today. The the new hopeful for vice president will speak tonight at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Through his previous legislative proposals, though, he has already said volumes about what global health issues he views as important.
Last summer, Senator Biden introduced the Global Pathogen Surveillance Act of 2007 (S. 1687), which would expand overseas infectious disease laboratories run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Experts say the risk of an avian flu pandemic is as great as ever. But according to Biden, the US government is only "one-third" prepared for an outbreak.
A report submitted by Biden urging passage of the Global Pathogen Surveillance Act calls developing nations the “weak links in a comprehensive global surveillance and monitoring network” and cites research suggesting that about one-third of countries may not even have the tools required to diagnose avian flu in humans. It's no surprise then that the proposed legislation would also provide assistance to developing nations that need better tools for recognizing and containing infectious disease outbreaks.
Forgive the pun, but in my opinion this legislation kills two birds with one stone. In addition to offering increased protection from natural pandemics, it would help prepare the global community for launching a coordinated response against a biowarfare attack; biological agents, manmade or natural, are likely to spread through human populations in similar ways. If passed, the act would cost each American family about $1—a small sum compared with the approximate per-family cost of $300 for the United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 (also known as PEPFAR), recently signed by US President George W. Bush
The world is watching US SenatorJoe Biden today. The the new hopeful for vice president will speak tonight at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Through his previous legislative proposals, though, he has already said volumes about what global health issues he views as important.
Last summer, Senator Biden introduced the Global Pathogen Surveillance Act of 2007 (S. 1687), which would expand overseas infectious disease laboratories run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Experts say the risk of an avian flu pandemic is as great as ever. But according to Biden, the US government is only "one-third" prepared for an outbreak.
A report submitted by Biden urging passage of the Global Pathogen Surveillance Act calls developing nations the “weak links in a comprehensive global surveillance and monitoring network” and cites research suggesting that about one-third of countries may not even have the tools required to diagnose avian flu in humans. It's no surprise then that the proposed legislation would also provide assistance to developing nations that need better tools for recognizing and containing infectious disease outbreaks.
Forgive the pun, but in my opinion this legislation kills two birds with one stone. In addition to offering increased protection from natural pandemics, it would help prepare the global community for launching a coordinated response against a biowarfare attack; biological agents, manmade or natural, are likely to spread through human populations in similar ways. If passed, the act would cost each American family about $1—a small sum compared with the approximate per-family cost of $300 for the United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 (also known as PEPFAR), recently signed by US President George W. Bush
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