OESTROGEN – MANAGING THE MASTER HORMONE

October 18, 2012 by  
Filed under Health Blog

Oestrogen is essential for healthy female reproductive function. This hormone plays a part in every stage of a female’s life – from early childhood development to puberty, throughout the menstrual cycle, pregnancy, childbirth and finally, through the menopausal years. Too many women suffer from symptoms related to having either too much or not enough oestrogen […]

ARE ‘BIO-IDENTICAL’ HORMONES SAFE AND ARE THEY NATURAL?

December 11, 2011 by  
Filed under Health Blog, Healthy Lifestyle

Standard, synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT) made worldwide headlines when a study released in 2002 found it increased the risk of breast cancer, heart attacks, and strokes. Indeed, the study had to be stopped prematurely due to the dangers that HRT posed to women. Therefore, vast numbers of women that were using synthetic HRT’s such […]