
Accepted treatments like hormone replacement therapy are coming under scrutiny. More than ever, getting straight answers to your menopause questions is vitally important to your health, comfort, and peace of mind.
Empowering women with education and pertinent information will allowed them to review and understand their options during the perimenopause and menopause transition. Alternative and complimentary treatments as well as hormonal and non-hormonal treatments are now available.
Natural Estrogen (Phytoestrogens) derived from
organic plant sources are being substituted for the conventional FDA-approved "synthetic" hormonal drugs. Natural Estrogen contains co-factors (such as enzymes) which balance or regulate your body's hormones.
Estrogenic extracts such as: glycyrrhetic acid (from organic licorice root), organic angelica, maca, and wild organic Himalayan yams are potent and standardized.
Although women can go "cold turkey" from estrogen drugs to natural, organic estrogen without adverse side effects, Dr. Barry Gushleff from
Duke
University recommends that women who have been taking estrogen drugs gradually wean themselves off these drugs.