Does taking hormones during menopause affect your weight?
I’ve heard that oral hormones during menopause makes it harder to loose weight. Is that true?
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Natural and Alternative Treatments – A Holistic Approach In Medicine
I’ve heard that oral hormones during menopause makes it harder to loose weight. Is that true?
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Here are some sad facts of Alternative Medicine in the US:
The FDA promotes only pharmaceutical drugs and has a decades-long record of not approving, or even looking at, anything alternative. Again, this is the way of the world and you must face it.
In medical lawsuits, well-meaning but misinformed juries rule against doctors unless they've used conventional drugs, surgery and radiation.
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Their state medical boards may fine them heavily, suspend their license to practice or even revoke it.
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Doctors may lose their right to see their patients in hospitals.
Yet, to this day, thousands upon thousands of people stricken with all kinds of serious medical conditions have felt the inadequacy of traditional or conventional medicine and have sought out alternative treatments, whether they be approved by the AMA or FDA.
Whether it is Naturopathy, Homeopathy, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurvedic or Holistic Medicine, there are other therapies and natural approaches to diseases and many of them work better than the recommended protocols and without many of the harmful side effects.
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Boy, wish I could blame that on my weight gain
yes yes yes yes…. it did for me… I gained a lot of weight.. so I stop and trying to explor more organic natural things.
I believe the opposite is true. Estrogen, specifically estradiol, is responsible for helping keep women from gaining abdominal weight. This article http://www.project-aware.org/Resource/articlearchives/weightgain.shtml may help.
Perimenopause and menopause are often accompanied by the dreaded "menopot" that can make you look slightly pregnant.
HRT (hormone replacement therapy) for menopausal women has been the subject of some disagreement lately, as it’s been linked to cancer and heart disease. These articles http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=87898687 may be helpful.
I have chosen not to take HRT during my perimenopause. I’m watching all the studies and articles closely, though, as I’m a little tired of having a fat tummy.