Menopause Treatments & Therapies
What is Menopause?
Menopause is the point in a woman's life in which she stops menstruating. At this point, the amount of estrogen secreted by the ovaries decreases and progesterone also declines. The reproductive hormonal cycle becomes irregular until eventually ovulation and menstruation stops.
Are you going through menopause?
Every day 3,500 women in the USA enter menopause with many of these symptoms:
- Hot Flashes
- Night Sweats
- Insomnia
- Vaginal Dryness
- Osteoporosis
- Decreased Skin Thickness
- Low Libido
- Hair Loss
- Mood Swings
- Memory Loss
How do we treat menopause?
Because most of the symptoms of menopause are related to the declining hormone levels, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is an effective way of managing menopause. Estrogen and progesterone hormone replacement stops (in most cases) hot flashes, vaginal and urinary tract dryness, sleeplessness, and mood swings. There are also cardiovascular benefits to HRT, protecting against premature heart disease, hypertension, and high cholesterol. HRT can help prevent osteoporosis if treatment is started early. It has been well established that estrogen and progesterone in combination in menopausal women results in a lesser incidence of cancer of the uterus and possibly of the breast.