Health Insider: Menopause not linked to heart disease risk, study shows

Long-held medical belief is that women have a greater risk of dying from cardiovascular disease after menopause, but new research from Johns Hopkins debunks that. Heart disease mortality rates in women progress at a constant rate as they age, the research found, showing that it’s aging and not hormonal changes brought on by menopause that cause deaths from cardiovascular disease.

Menopause And Increased Risk Of Fatal Heart Attack Not Linked

There is no link between the menopause and increased risk of fatal heart attack, say Johns Hopkins researchers who report their findings in the 6 September online issue of the British Medical Journal, BMJ. They found that the increasing number of deaths from heart attack as women get older is not due to the menopause but aging alone and not hormonal changes. They were also surprised to find …

Natural Strategies That Will Prevent Hair Shedding

If you currently have TE or telogen effluvium, it is likely you already think that once hair shedding has started, it can be difficult to placed the genie back in the bottle. And sometimes, the panicked stuff that we do to stop or slow the hair loss will make the issue a whole lot worse.  So, it’s a good idea to circumvent the shedding (or it’s recurrence) to begin with.  This information will provide you with guidelines to help you do just that.

Find out Your Trigger And Remedy it:  Often, shedding is caused by some trigger or some change that takes place in your body.  Some common ones are beginning or stopping medicinal drugs, hormonal changes, scalp or dermatological issues, DHT or excess androgens, or inflammation.  If you can work out which of those was at fault and can remedy it once and for all, then the loss ought to be prevented (or otherwise slowed) in the foreseeable future.

Avoid Any Fixes That Alter Your Hormones Unless It’s Essential And You’ve Tried Other options:  Women who are prone to TE in many cases are hormonally delicate.  However, most of the “fixes” or “cures” for shedding and baldness involve using supplements, herbs, and medications that can affect your sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, etc.)

Examples are saw palmetto, Spiro, raw thyroid, raw adrenals, etc.  Some people will just throw this stuff at the problem without having to be within doctor’s care, hoping they happen upon a remedy through trial and error.  The challenge with this is that if you’re hormonally vulnerable, changing up your hormones might start a new round of TE or Hair shedding and so you’re worse off than when you started.

If your doctor has discovered a deficiency or problem via blood work or testing, then be my guest follow your doctor’s advice.  However, I find that this isn’t necessary with my readers.  In my opinion, it certainly is best to try the least invasive, least altering things first – which is why I like inflammation reducers and regrowth stimulators that you put onto your scalp instead of within your body, but I’m not referring to Rogaine and so on (which is way too full of alcohol and too irritating.)

Concentrate On A Healthy Scalp And Thick Regrowth: Many individuals completely miss scalp issues as the reason for shedding but it is very common.   Often, clogged or irritated follicles of hair won’t be properly nourished and deeply embedded enough.  Eventually, the cycle will choke out and then extract the starving hair.  Likewise, for those who have these scalp issues, your regrowth will likely be jeopardized, making your hair look even more thin.

Be very careful of shampoos that have irritating ingredients like SLS (sodium laurel sulfate). This ingredient is added only so the shampoo will make lots of bubbles to ensure that we’ll be fooled into thinking that it works better.  This harsh ingredient is also utilized in household cleaners and has no place on the scalp.  There are so many good, natural, and gentle shampoos that really work great.

Natural ingredients like tea tree oil and jojoba oil are natural anti inflammatories and they work great to stop Hair shedding.  Apple cider vinegar treatment is a wonderful rinse to free your scalp and hair of build up.  The laser comb (in combination with some essential oils) is a very natural, non irritating way to induce regrowth and help with shedding due to unhealthy follicles.

The advantages of Ovulation tests

Ovulation test are not widely understood  ; so what is an ovulation test? Well basically it helps you appreciatet when you are ovulating and hence when you have the best chance of getting pregnant. They are often known as ovulation predictor test or ovulation kits. If a woman is looking to get pregnant then knowing the right time to try is key in giving her the best possible chance of getting the right result.   Most women will have a good idea when they are really ovulating and when the egg is travelling into the womb, once there it is able to be fertilised.

Most women presume that they will ovulate every 14 days but this is not set in stone and can  change dependant on a few factors such as stress and hormonal changes.  The hormone that is needed is the follicle stimulating hormone which enables the egg to mature then estrogens leads to the production of the hormone Luteinizing Hormone which allows the mature egg to be discharged.

The ovulation tests you can buy allow you to predict when this process is happening  and you can thus time your sexual activity to fit in and give you the best chance of becoming pregnant.  These ovulation tests are not expensive and give you the edge when trying for a baby.

Ovulation Tests are most definitely  increasing in  popularity as they become more widely known about . And they allow you, through the use of ovulation calendars and ovulation predictor kits, to identify the best fertile times or some people even use them to avoid unwanted pregnancies. It is best to avoid drinking too much water when taking Ovulation tests as it can limit the accuracy of the results.  Also some medicines such as fertility drugs can have an opposite effect on results so please bear this in mind and if in doubt confer with your doctor or wait two menstrual cycles.

Does male menopause exist?

Q. Is there such a thing as male menopause? A. The hormonal changes that women go through with menopause are well known, but men don’t get through the aging process with their hormone levels intact, either. Testosterone levels begin dropping when a man is in his 20s and continue downhill from there. But Dr. Shalender Bhasin, a professor of medicine …

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