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Women who eat more pasta tend to get menopause earlier
Women who eat more pasta tend to get menopause earlier
By New Scientist staff and Press Association
A study of more than 900 women in the UK has found that eating more white pasta and rice is linked to getting menopause earlier, while a diet rich in oily fish is linked to later menopause. However, it is not possible to tell if these diets directly affect the onset of menopause, or if they merely reflect some other, hidden factor.
Janet Cade, at the University of Leeds, UK, and colleagues analysed data from 900 women who experienced menopause between the ages of 40 and 65. They found that the average age of menopause was 51, but that certain foods were associated with when menopause begun.
Women who ate an additional daily portion of refined white pasta or rice tended to reach menopause around one-and-a-half years earlier than average, while an extra daily serving of oily fish was associated with a delay of more than three years.
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Diets high in fresh legumes – such as peas and beans – were linked with women reaching the menopause around a year later. Higher intake of vitamin B6 and zinc were also associated with later menopause.
Health implications
“The age at which menopause begins can have serious health implications for some women,” says Cade. Women who go through menopause early can have an increased risk of osteoporosis and heart disease, while those who do so later can be more likely to develop breast, womb and ovarian cancers.
Cade and her colleagues suggest that the antioxidants in legumes may help keep the menstrual cycle going for longer, and that omega 3 fatty acids – which are abundant in oily fish – may boost this. It’s possible that refined carbohydrates increase the risk of insulin resistance, which may interfere with sex hormones.
“The body’s metabolism plays an important role regulating ovulation and periods,” says Channa Jayasena, at Imperial College London. But he warns against inferring a dietary recipe for delaying the menopause from this study. “Unfortunately, a big limitation of these observational studies is their inability to prove that dietary behaviour actually causes early menopause. Until we have that type of proof, I see no reason for people to change their diet.”
Journal reference: Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health
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How your diet could influence the age of your menopause
How your diet could influence the age of your menopause
A diet high in carbs could bring on an earlier menopause, a study suggests.
Eating lots of pasta and rice was associated with reaching menopause one-and-a-half years earlier than the average age of women in the UK of 51.
However, the University of Leeds study of 914 UK women, also found that a diet rich in oily fish and peas and beans may delay natural menopause.
But experts say many other factors, including genes, influence timing of the menopause.
It’s not clear how big a contribution dietary choices might make and women should not worry about changing what they eat based on the findings, they add.
Food findings
The research was published in the Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health and the women were asked what their typical diet contained.
A diet high in legumes, which includes peas, beans, lentils and chickpeas, delayed menopause by one-and-a-half years, on average.
Eating lots of refined carbs, particularly rice and pasta, was linked to menopause coming earlier by one-and-a-half years.
The researchers took into account other potentially influencing factors, such as a woman’s weight, reproductive history and use of HRT, but they weren’t able to consider genetic factors, which can influence age of menopause.
The study is observational and cannot prove any cause, but the researchers offer some possible explanations behind their findings.
For example, legumes contain antioxidants, which may preserve menstruation for longer.
Omega-3 fatty acids, which are in oily fish, also stimulate antioxidant capacity in the body.
Refined carbs boost the risk of insulin resistance, which can interfere with sex hormone activity and boost oestrogen levels. This might increase the number of menstrual cycles leading to the egg supply running out faster.
Health implications
Study co-author Janet Cade, professor of nutritional epidemiology, said the age at which menopause begins can have “serious health implications” for some women.
“A clear understanding of how diet affects the start of natural menopause will be very beneficial to those who may already be at risk or have a family history of certain complications related to menopause.”
Women who go through the menopause early are at increased risk of osteoporosis and heart disease, while women who go through it late are at increased risk of breast, womb, and ovarian cancers.
Kathy Abernethy, menopause specialist nurse and chairwoman of the British Menopause Society, said: “This study doesn’t prove a link with the foods mentioned, but certainly contributes to the limited knowledge we currently have on why some women go through menopause earlier than others.”
Prof Saffron Whitehead, emeritus professor of endocrinology at St George’s University of London and Society for Endocrinology member, said: “It is an interesting approach to investigate the timing of the menopause but I am not yet convinced that diet alone can account for the age of the onset of the menopause. There are too many other factors involved.”
Dr Channa Jayasena, clinical senior lecturer and consultant in reproductive endocrinology and andrology at Imperial College, points out “the body’s metabolism plays an important role regulating ovulation and having periods”.
“It is tempting to speculate that this provides a recipe for delaying menopause. Unfortunately, a big limitation of these observational studies, is their inability to prove that dietary behaviour actually causes early menopause. Until we have that type of proof, I see no reason for people to change their diet.”
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‘For 6 months I would be 23 and go through menopause’: Military spouse’s heartbreaking journey to get pregnant
Military spouse’s heartbreaking journey to get pregnant – Love What Matters
“The hardest question to answer is when people ask me, ‘How long have you guys been trying?’ It is not because the question hurts, but because I believe there are so many answers. For me, we started trying the second we found out the pregnancy we thought we had was gone.
In 2016, just a few months before our big wedding, my husband and I were convinced we were expecting. I had all the telltale signs of being pregnant, starting with my breasts changing. For a week I went through the motions of nausea, loss of appetite, and fatigue. We ended up calling a doctor in town and they too believed I was expecting. They asked me to wait a couple weeks to come in, and I obliged. Another week went by and my symptoms got more and more prevalent, I even had friends thinking it was happening. I gave in and took a test, but it was negative. I called the doctor back and after crossing numbers, we decided I was still probably pregnant but too early to test. On the third week of thinking we are pregnant, I started cramping and bleeding. Unbearable and paralyzing pain. My husband had to carry me down the stairs and to the hospital. When we arrived, they concluded that they did not know if it was a miscarriage or ruptured cyst. I was sent home with paperwork on ‘spontaneous abortion care,’ and orders to rest, never given a blood test to confirm what had happened.
For my doctors, our journey probably began when they started pumping so many different medicines into me to make me ‘work right.’ However, for all intents and purposes, we say it all started when we decided I would go through 6 months of medically induced menopause. This 6 months would basically reboot my reproductive system by tricking it into thinking I am going through menopause, coming off it ‘endometriosis free.’ It was two injections into the bum, three months apart. That is where our Journey to Baby D truly began.
In 2007 at 13, I got my first and last period. From then on, I would need medical help getting them (birth control, infertility medicine). In 2013 at 19 I was diagnosed with PCOS, meaning I did not ovulate and had cyst-ridden ovaries. In 2017 I was diagnosed with Endometriosis as well, after undergoing a laparoscopy and D&C following what we believed was our failed pregnancy. In 2018 at 24 I began my relationship with In Vitro Fertilization.
I married my amazing husband in 2015 after being together for 3 years and before he left to be stationed in North Carolina. It did not take long for our original living plans to change. Just 3 months after being married I packed up my life, quit an amazing job, switched my major, and moved from my parents and Florida for the first time in my life. I never felt like I was giving up my dreams, I was chasing them. Now, he is about to sign for his second enlistment in the Marine Corps, I am a preschool teacher, and we have everything we want, except a tiny piece of both of us.
You never imagine that the one thing a woman can do that a man never can would feel impossible to achieve. You never wake up and think, ‘Will I ever be able to have a child?,’ until you hear a doctor tell you, ‘I think we should try something else, this isn’t working.’ You do not know what it feels like to feel empty, to feel broken, to feel like you fail as a wife and as a woman.
After finding out I had Endometriosis and 24 cysts on my ovaries, I was left with two options; we could attempt to get pregnant in the month that we had until Nick’s departure, or I could undergo medically induced menopause. The two opposite options each had such unique ways of helping me. By becoming pregnant I would ultimately suppress the endometriosis and be ‘free’ of it for the 9 months I was pregnant. I could suppress it even longer if I decided to breastfeed. All the hormones in my body from a pregnancy would have made the extra misplaced tissue (the endometriosis) go away for a bit.
The menopause was tricking my body in another way. The medication would communicate with my pituitary gland, to my ovaries, to the endo tissue, and stop the growth. With that, my estrogen levels would increase, menopause symptoms would start, and then my period would stop and my levels would decrease. My doctor warned me that many women cannot make it to the second injection, that the symptoms are too much to handle. I took that as a personal challenge to do this. With my husband leaving for Syria just a month later, we were not left with much of a choice.
Nick and I started our infertility journey February 17, 2017, with one shot to the bum! For 6 months I would be 23 and go through menopause. Yes, hot flashes, weight gain, acne, mood swings, you name it I had it. Having my husband worlds away contributed to the downfall of my sanity. We decided we would start sharing our Journey when I started menopause. It was an amazing way for me to release all my emotions while Nick was gone and to be open and spread awareness of infertility. Thus, Journey to Baby D was born.
I was supposed to go through 6 months of menopause and as my body came back from the ‘reproductive reboot’ I would get a period and be able to conceive upon Nick’s arrival back home. As with everything else to that point, it did not go as planned. My body rejected the medicine a week before the 6 months and the endometriosis returned. That was a shot to the gut that I was not prepared for — feeling like I had wasted 6 months of agony and my body had failed my soul. I had failed my husband. So, we waited. We waited for Nick to return and we waited for a period. Seeing my husband walk off that bus was the biggest relief I had felt. I was not alone. I was not broken, I had him to help me be okay again.
When 4 months had passed, and no progress had been made, we took the next step and began at home medications and injections. For another 4 months I went through an emotional and physical change that I can only describe as feeling like you have lost control. My pills to get my period gave me migraines, anxiety attacks, and depressed days. My injections gave me bruises, shooting pains, and backaches that kept me bedridden. None of it gave me a baby, or even a follicle big enough to try and make one. I was broken.
Each doctor’s appointment I was reminded of the uncooperative uterus and hostile ovaries God had given me. I was told I was the poster child for PCOS, I win at cysts, and I was textbook article worthy. Text. Book. Article. Worthy. Ouch. Nick and I weighed our options, and with another upcoming deployment, we knew time was not in our favor. We made the decision, with the adamant advice of our doctor, to go the IVF route. It was our only option. It took me a day to make a consultation appointment because I knew this was going to work. This was our chance. That office held the tools we needed to be parents. The appointment was amazing. Science is beautiful and magical and hopeful. The excitement of the chance was slowly attacked by the astronomical cost that insurance would not touch. $15,000 – $20,000 to have a child, the cost of a new car to be a parent, 400 packs of pampers. How can you bring yourself to be excited about that? How do I let the anxiety and stress not overpower the happiness? Right now, we just do. We just wake up every day and focus on the goal. Knowing Nick will not be here for the end of our pregnancy, or the birth of this child that we are working so hard to have, is a thought I must put aside. It is one that weighs on me more than I wished it did. But knowing why he is going to be gone makes me that much prouder of him.
I was the little girl growing up who grabbed a baby doll and played mommy while everyone else wanted to be a princess. I took every opportunity and chance to pretend to be a mom. I babysat for cousins and volunteered at my aunt’s preschool class. For as long as I can remember, being a mom was all I wanted. Meeting my husband only solidified that feeling. I knew this amazing man was going to be my partner in bringing a tiny human into the world, and I knew he was going to be amazing. Going through all these struggles for something that comes so naturally to some people has had me question my faith, but has made my love for my husband and my marriage stronger than I had ever imagined.
I have cried over the thought of feeling like I was not enough. I have been told I did not pray enough or want it enough. Every bad doctor’s appointment, every seemingly wasted month, every painful injection has only made me want this more. I wish I could adequately describe the pain and emotional burden that comes with infertility. The constant wants for more, the need for answers, the questioning of everything you thought you believed. I have cried countless tears during this journey, I have prayed endless prayers, I catch myself smiling at just the thought of this working and getting the chance to be a mom. We know the cost for us to have this, and it is worth every penny. The feeling of wanting to be parents could never be measured by any monetary value. We have started a t-shirt campaign to help offset the cost of IVF, but mostly to spread awareness for infertility, for the silent suffering. By wearing our shirts, we are reaching people. By posting on my blog, we are helping people. By being so vulnerable and open, we are spreading love. I was born to be a mom, to give my husband a child, and I know it will happen. We will do what it takes to make it happen. We have faith and one day we will have Baby D.”
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Menopause and Sleep
Menopause and Sleep | HealthStatus
Menopause occurs in middle-aged women when their production of estrogen and progesterone slows down. This is usually a gradual process, but can also occur abruptly and severely in women who have have their ovaries removed, which completely stops the production of estrogen and progesterone. Women going through this major physical and psychological change can experience anxiety, depression, mood swings, hot flashes, and insomnia. In fact, over half of women during menopause complain of sleep problems. Also, snoring tends to increase in menopausal and post-menopausal women, possibly signaling sleep apnea. There are medications out there, like hormone replacement therapy and estrogen replacement therapy, to aid in the relief of menopause symptoms. However, these medications are not meant to be used long term and should be taken at the lowest possible dose because recent studies have shown that HRT may cause dementia and heart problems. There is an alternative treatment using soy to combat symptoms, but it’s efficacy is inconsistent. There are also some things you can do in your everyday life to cope, such as eating small and healthy meals, wearing light clothing when sleeping to avoid overheating at night, reducing your daily stress level, and avoiding nicotine, caffeine, and alcohol.
Key Points:
- 1Adding a fan to your bedroom to increase air circulation and help cool you can improve your sleep.
- 2Avoid heavy blankets and wear light weight pajamas to bed to help avoid overheating.
- 3Reduce stress, maintain a healthy weight and make exercise a part of your daily routine to aid in a good night’s sleep.
Generally, post-menopausal women are less satisfied with their sleep and as many as 61% report insomnia symptoms.
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9 Top Herbs For Menopause
9 Top Herbs For Menopause
When you enter menopause, hormones like estrogen and progesterone decline.
Because of the importance of hormones to a woman’s mental and physical health, declining levels of estrogen and progesterone (and other hormones) can result in a number of unwanted side effects, such as:
- Hot flashes
- Night sweats
- Irregular periods (increased or decreased flow)
- Vaginal dryness
- Loss of sex drive
- Mood swings
- Weight gain
- Osteoporosis
- Incontinence
- Hair loss
- Sleep disorders
Key Point
When these side effects are experienced, women become painfully aware of how important their hormones are to their health and the way they feel.
Luckily, there are healthy and natural herbs that can effectively fight the symptoms of menopausal hormone decline.
Here’s a list of symptom-fighting herbs, and the evidence that supports their usage.
1. Soy Isoflavones
These estrogenic compounds in soybeans have incredible estrogen-modulating abilities and could be very helpful in fighting menopausal symptoms.
Numerous studies have shown that isoflavone-containing soy extracts reduce the severity and frequency of hot flashes† [1][2].
About 80% of menopausal women receiving one soy extract had reductions in hot flashes and an average reduction in the number of hot flashes by over 47%† [2]. The other amazing thing about this study was that numerous other symptoms of menopause improved such as “sleep disorder, anxiety, depression, vaginal dryness, loss of libido and bone pain”† [2].
About 80% of menopausal women receiving one soy extract had reductions in hot flashes and an average reduction in the number of hot flashes by over 47%† [2].
In perimenopausal women (women about to experience menopause), soy isoflavones caused an increase in estrogen and progesterone† [3]. That’s a good sign. Also, hot flashes and vaginal dryness were significantly decreased† [3].
2. Licorice Root
Licorice root’s effectiveness is a result of the compound isoliquiritigenin. This compound has estrogenic effects [4].
One group of researchers was so confident in licorice root’s ability to fight hot flashes that they studied it in comparison to hormone replacement therapy [5]. Although the strong hormone replacement therapy was most effective in reducing hot flashes, researchers concluded that licorice “is not very different from hormones in terms of reducing the number and duration of hot flashes”† [5].
Licorice root is also “harmless” and “inexpensive,” and researchers say it should be used often to ease hot flashes in middle-aged women [6].
3. Vitex Berry
One research review concludes that the evidence supports the use of vitex berry in lessening symptoms of menopause [7]. The essential oil of the vitex berry has also been shown to be “effective” against menopausal symptoms† [8].
4. Black Cohosh
This herb is native to Eastern North America and is popularly used to ease symptoms of menopause.
In a 2013 study, black cohosh consistently reduced various symptoms of menopause [9]. “Vasomotor, psychiatric, physical, and sexual symptoms” all improved during 4-8 weeks of treatment† [9]. Researchers note that studies “clearly indicate the efficacy and tolerability” of the herb and that it is particularly effective at relieving hot flashes† [10].
5. Red Clover
In a human study, red clover was evidenced to reduce hot flashes and increase circulating estrogen levels† [11]. This herb can even improve the thickness of the uterine wall [11]. Red clover also addresses the effects of estrogen deficiency.
This herb is rich in isoflavones just like soy, so it’s no wonder that its phytoestrogenic activities help fight menopausal symptoms.
6. Dong Quai
This Asian herb has estrogenic effects, and several studies have shown reductions in hot flashes in women using dong quai in the range of 20-35% [12]. Dong Quai has also been evidenced to relieve migraines associated with menstruation† [12].
7. Sage
In 2011, researchers completed the first clinical study demonstrating the efficacy and tolerability of sage [13]. There was a significant decrease in the intensity and number of hot flashes, and “very severe” hot flashes were completely eliminated [13].
Moderate and severe hot flashes were diminished by 62% and 79% respectively; that is a massive success for sage [13]!
Moderate and severe hot flashes were diminished by 62% and 79% respectively; that is a massive success for sage [13]!
Other symptoms (psychological and genital) were diminished as well† [13].
8. Yam
It’s a food and a medicine, so let your food be your medicine!
This starchy veggie is quite estrogenic, and researchers found an impressive 27% increase in serum estradiol (the active form of estrogen) in postmenopausal women who started eating yams [14].
Researchers claim that the estrogenic effects of yam “might reduce the risk of breast cancer and cardiovascular diseases in postmenopausal women”† [14]. Yam also “improves the status” of antioxidants in these women [14]. This is important because estrogen has an antioxidant effect that protects skin, bone, and tissues in the body. Therefore, an antioxidant effect might reduce the chances of developing diseases that commonly accompany menopause.
9. Red Raspberry
This berry is included in lists of foods that are thought to have estrogenic effects [15]. Red raspberry might be helpful in preventing breast cancer that sometimes develops around or after menopause [16]. As researchers describe it, there is a “possible role for berries and berry compounds in the prevention of breast cancer”† [16].
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Helpful Tips for Dryness After Hysterectomy or Menopause – McLeod Health
Helpful Tips for Dryness After Hysterectomy or Menopause
Medically Reviewed by Paul E. Chandler, MD
Women and their partners are often faced with vaginal dryness after a hysterectomy or after a woman is past menopause. McLeod Gynecologist Paul Chandler, MD, discusses what you can and should NOT do to help the problem:
Here are key points from Dr. Chandler:
When a woman has a “total hysterectomy” — where everything (uterus, fallopian tubes & ovaries) has been taken out, the amount of estrogen left in the body is low. That causes the lining of the vagina to thin and become less elastic. That is called “vaginal atrophy.”
When the vagina becomes dry and less elastic, painful intercourse can result. The woman’s vagina will be dry and will not stretch. Also, those tissues tend to scar and shrink from lack of estrogen.
One of the treatments for this development would be to use some vaginal estrogens. Very little of it gets absorbed. So, it’s very safe. I’ve even used this treatment for women, who’ve had breast cancer, because there’s so little of the estrogen that is absorbed. But it does thicken those vaginal tissues up and makes them more elastic, helping reduce painful intercourse after hysterectomy.
Sometimes a woman might have very bad endometriosis. This condition is where some of the blood and uterine lining from a woman’s period, rather than going through the vagina, it goes through the fallopian tubes and ends up in the woman’s abdomen. The lining is still alive and can implant on the pelvic organs, causing scarring of those pelvic tissues. Even though this woman has had a total hysterectomy and had all the organs removed, the scar tissue can recur. During intercourse, there can be pain from the manipulation of that scar tissue.
In post-menopausal women or women who have had their ovaries removed and have low estrogen levels, a vaginal lubricant for sex helps a lot.
Don’t use Vaseline, because that can actually make the pain worse. Don’t use K-Y Jelly; this lubricant is designed for office examinations.
Use a water-based or a silicone-based lubricant. A good one that I recommend to patients is called Astroglide. (You can find that at Wal-Mart). The best ones are water-soluble lubricants, and they make a huge difference for those women in menopause or those women who have had a hysterectomy and no longer have adequate estrogen levels.
via Helpful Tips for Dryness After Hysterectomy or Menopause – McLeod Health
Lack Of Sleep During Menopause Correlates With Depression And Hot Flashes
Lack Of Sleep During Menopause Correlates With Depression And Hot Flashes
During menopause sleep disruptions are among the most common complaints. A study conducted by researchers at the University of Illinois has found that sleep problems vary across the stages of menopause, being slightly different for each woman, yet are consistently correlated with that of depression and hot flashes.
Findings suggest that addressing those risk factors may help sleep disruptions giving hope to women that sleep symptoms may not last past menopausal transition. Sleep issues are one of the most common reason menopausal women seek medical assistance as it is a huge burden on quality of life, but it is also a huge burden on health care making investigation of underlying causes very important.
Data was analysed from the Midlife Women’s Health Study involving 776 women aged in the age group of 45-54+ for a 7 year time frame. The participants provided annual blood samples and survey for the use of tracking sleep patterns and disruptions, as well as other menopausal symptoms and hormonal levels as the participants transitioned from pre to post-menopause. Tracking of poor sleep was done by asking questions about the frequency of sleep disturbances, insomnia, and restless sleep.
No correlation was found between the likelihood of reporting poor sleep before menopause, during, and after. Meaning that women that reported sleep problems changed as they were transitioning to different stages of menopause, such as reporting insomnia during was not more likely to have insomnia after.
Analyzing data for any other symptoms and factors that may be associated with poor sleep it was found that depression and hot flashes were strongly associated with poor sleep across all stages of menopause transitioning. These 2 risk factors varied in reporting frequency across all stages, which may help explain why poor sleep also varies.
Self reporting is not as precise as a clinical sleep trial but is more useful because it is more accurate to their experience. This study is hopeful for most women as it suggests that sleeping patterns may change but it may not be permanent.
via Lack Of Sleep During Menopause Correlates With Depression And Hot Flashes
Menopause may put women at greater risk for Alzheimer’s | Genetic Literacy Project
Menopause may put women at greater risk for Alzheimer’s
[W]e are only beginning to understand is why women are more susceptible [to Alzheimer’s]. What factors differentiate women from men, specifically as we reach middle age?
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It turns out that menopause affects far more than our childbearing potential. Symptoms like night sweats, hot flashes and depression originate not in the ovaries but largely in the brain. These symptoms are all caused by an ebb in estrogen. The latest research, including my own work, indicates that estrogen serves to protect the female brain from aging. It stimulates neural activity and may help prevent the build up of plaques that are connected to the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. When estrogen levels decline, the female brain becomes much more vulnerable.
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The good news is that as women mature into their 40s and 50s, there seems to be a window of opportunity when it is possible to detect early signs of higher Alzheimer’s risk — by doing a brain-imaging test, as we did — and to take action to reduce that risk.
There is increasing evidence that hormone replacement therapies — mainly, giving women supplemental estrogen — can help to alleviate symptoms if given before menopause. We need much more research to test the efficacy and safety of hormone therapy, which has been tied to an increased risk of heart disease, blood clots and breast cancer in some cases.
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Menopause ‘hot flash’ medicine could cut symptom by three quarters, trial shows
Menopause ‘hot flash’ medicine could cut symptom by three quarters, trial shows
A new class of drugs could be life-changing for millions of women in menopause who suffer with hot flashes.
A medication being tested in the U.K. and here in the U.S. may be the key to alleviating several of the uncomfortable menopause side effects — and hopefully without the need for hormone replacement therapy, according to an analysis published in the journal Menopause.
“The potential for this drug class to really improve many of the symptoms of the menopause, such as hot [flashes], difficulty sleeping, weight gain, and poor concentration, is huge,” lead author Dr. Julia Prague of the Imperial College London. “To see the lives of our participants change so dramatically and so quickly was so exciting, and suggests great promise for the future of this new type of treatment.”
About 70 percent of postmenopausal women experience vasomotor symptoms -— the familiar hot flashes — which, in some cases, last for years. This new drug, labeled MLE4901 for research, is being tested in clinical trials and offers hope for curtailing postmenopausal symptoms.
Read more from from ABC News, By Dr. Najbah Rehman, about Menopause ‘hot flash’ medicine could cut symptom by three quarters, trial shows
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