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Tips for a Healthy Life Post-Menopause

Health advises for middle-aged women mainly revolves around dealing with symptoms of peri-menopause, the time in every woman’s life when fertility comes to an end. This normally occurs around the age of fifty, with some women going through menopause a few years earlier, and some a few years later. It can be a difficult time accompanied by numerous possible side effects, with mood swings, depression, reduction of libido, night sweats, and hot flashes being some of the most common. It can take several years for your body to settle down, and only when you’ve not had a period for twelve months can you consider yourself to have entered menopause. However, several other health concerns and considerations come to the fore in women around this age. Health...

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Revitalizing Life Through Hormonal Therapy

The most common way of treating cancer is through hormone treatment, which is sometimes referred to as hormonal therapy or endocrine therapy. It uses hormones in the medical treatment of cancer, which slows down or stops the growth of completely and spread of cancer cells within the body. Hormone replacement therapy is administered to women who have menopausal symptoms and is one of the several types of hormone therapies that are there. When it is used with other treatments, it can reduce the size of a tumor before surgery or radiotherapy, a process called neoadjuvant therapy. It also lowers the risk of cancer coming back after treatment, a process known as adjuvant therapy. Hormonal therapy also destroys any cancer recurrent cancer cells or the ones that...

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5 Foods That Prevent Yeast Infections

By LEAH POLAKOFF The nasty burning itch, the red irritated skin, the unmistakable discharge: Yep, you have a yeast infection. Before you resign yourself to taking meds, head to your kitchen. Candida yeast, the culprit behind these fungal infections, can be quelled by eliminating foods high in sugar and carbohydrates and eating ones loaded with vitamins, healthy fats, and probiotics. The following foods are all proven candida combaters, as described in the new book Eat for Extraordinary Health & Healing. But remember that it's always wise to visit your doctor since other conditions can have similar symptoms to yeast infections.  Extracts from papaya seeds Extracts from papaya seeds and leaves have been shown to nix fungus and prevent yeast infections. Plus, it's loaded with vitamin C—115% of your daily value,...

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Acupuncture for Fertility: Does It Really Work?

Acupuncture is best known worldwide for treatment of pain, but over the past few decades, this surprisingly painless and relaxing experience of needle placement into acupuncture points has become well-known for increasing virility and fertility. Acupuncture is an age-old method to promote healthy pre- and post-natal care. However, its popularity in America to enhance fertility was not spurred until 2001 when a German study reported a significant increase in pregnancies when provided along with In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF). Since this time, numerous studies show supporting evidence for the effectiveness of acupuncture in the treatment of fertility issues. Acupuncture Treatment An acupuncture treatment typically lasts 20-30 minutes and is received at least once a week to balance the flow of energy within the 14 main meridian pathways of the...

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