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HOT FLASH HAVOC, a Movie of Menopausal Proportions,

Heidi Houston

 

 

 houston@hotflashhavoc.com

Charlotte, NC - Special HOT FLASH Event

 Sponsored by MintView OB/GYN 

What Your Mother Never Told You: 

HOT FLASH HAVOC endorses International Menopause Society because one of our major goals is to reach out to those who want to learn. We are recommending all women go to the IMS website www.imsociety.org, because they do worldwide research with every country, share that information and put it into usable formats, it provides the absolutely most up to date information available.  
 

Mission of the International Menopause Society:

The aims of the IMS are to promote knowledge, study and research on all aspects of aging in men and women; to organize, prepare, hold and participate in international meetings and congresses on menopause and climacteric; and to encourage the interchange of research plans and experience between individual members. The Society is a non-profit association, within the meaning of the Swiss Civil Code. It was created in 1978 in Jerusalem during the Menopause Congress. In addition to organizing congresses, symposia, and workshops, the IMS publishes a quarterly newsletter and owns its own journal: Climacteric, the Journal of the International Menopause Society, published by Informa Healthcare. The IMS has two sub-organs: CAMS, the Council of Affiliated Menopause Societies, and the WSSM, the World School for the Study of the Menopause.

Updated IMS recommendations on postmenopausal hormone therapy and preventive strategies for midlife health
 

Introduction
The past decade has seen marked fluctuations in opinions concerning the merits and risks of postmenopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT). In July 2002, menopause manage¬ment faced a major turning point when the first data from the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) trial were released. This study was categorized as a primary prevention trial for coronary heart disease. However, the mean age at recruitment was 63 years, when menopausal symptoms have usually finished and HRT is rarely started, but this important difference from common clinical practice was not acknowledged at that time. Instead, WHI investigators concluded that HRT was not cardioprotective and that its risk-benefit ratio did not favor the use of postmenopausal hormones for prevention of chronic diseases. As a result, there was a dramatic change in prescription habits following recommendations to reserve HRT for very symptomatic women, and to limit its use to the 'shortest duration needed' and to 'the lowest effective dosage'. This was the atmosphere in which the International Menopause Society (IMS) initiated a Workshop held in Vienna (December 2003) and produced the subsequent IMS Position Paper resulting from the Workshop discussions.

Basically, the IMS did not accept some interpretations attributed to the WHI results and, being independent of local or regional constraints imposed by official health authorities, called for a more balanced approach to the scientific data. Because additional information has been accumulated from both arms of the WHI study, from observational trials and from other studies during the following years, the first IMS Statement was updated in 2007, enlarging its scope to menopause manage¬ment and adult women's health in general. This revised Statement was formulated in a Workshop held in Budapest in February 2007, in which 30 experts from the various fields of menopause medicine presented the latest information and delegates from 60 National and Regional Menopause Societies from all continents participated in the discussions.
 

The 2011 revision of the IMS Recommendations is published when the atmosphere around the issue of post-menopausal HRT is much more rational. The pendulum swung back from its peak negative sentiment following more detailed data from the WHI study that demonstrated the importance of the age at initiation and the good safety profile of HRT in women younger than 60 years. Since these were exactly the IMS views expressed in the previous recommendations, the current update is similar in principle to the 2007 version, but with the additional clinical data where needed. It has been produced by a small Writing Group of experts, and not from a formal workshop, but is the considered view of the IMS on the principles of HRT in the peri- and postmenopausal periods.

Throughout the recommendations, the term HRT will be used to cover therapies including estrogens, progestogens, combined therapies, androgens and tibolone. The IMS is aware of the geographical variations related to different priorities of medical care, different prevalence of diseases, and country-specific attitudes of the public, the medical community and the health authorities toward menopause management, different availability and licensing of products, all of which may impact on HRT. These Recommendations and the subsequent key messages therefore give a global and simple overview that serves as a common platform on issues related to the various aspects of hormone treatment, which could be easily adapted and modified according to local needs.

Full recommendations
The full text of the 'Updated IMS recommendations on postmenopausal hormone therapy and preventive strategies for midlife health' is available in a number of formats for download.
Print version, as published in Climacteric (PDF)
Spanish version (PDF)

Heidi's Book of the Month Review:

Over 50 Feeling 30, by William Lee, M.D.

Hot Women Don't Get Hot Flashes!

William H. Lee M.D.

 OK Ladies, I hear all the time, "I hate my hot flashes, night sweats, muffin top, foggy brain, aches and pains, and noooooo libido."  Well, Hot Women and I mean that in a complementary way, don't get Hot Flashes.  You are  wanting yourself back, that woman you use to know, the one that had energy, a clear head, a slimmer figure.  The woman who neither got hot flashes in the middle of an intimate moment nor during the day, nor in her office, nor at a movie, nor at a dinner party. Whether a top executive, a delightful grandmother, a Mom, a teacher, a designer or a nurse...you are rightly so sick and tired of being sick and tired of not recognizing yourself anymore. 

Well, there's help and it comes in the form of bioidentical hormones and a willing and knowledgeable doctor.  When is it time to seek treatment for these symptoms? Or is it really necessary?  Treatment is very necessary. What has been ignored by most are the problems that result from not taking hormones. An insufficient level of hormones in the body allows diseases to sneak in and take over.  Seeking treatment should be done the moment you begin wondering, having concern, having symptoms (although not all women have them).  The right doctor is going to do lab tests to discover where you are and then prescribe treatment appropriately.

 

There are profound differences in penicillins, tetracyclines and sulfa drugs; and there's a definite difference in estrogens.  Most estrogen studies used horse estrogen - you are not a horse!  The primary estrogen produced naturally in the ovaries is estradiol.  This estrogen your body has known for 40 - 50 years as a needed friend.  Estradiol has at least 400 hundred actions within your body 24/7.  Your body was accustomed to it and, when menopausal, misses it. There are receptor sites on all of the cell membranes: in the brain, muscles, bone, bladder, gut, uterus, ovaries, vagina, breast, eyes, heart, and blood vessels. No wonder when hormone levels drop and/or disappear you feel like disappearing.  You no longer are the woman you once were and you rightly so want her back!

 

Biologically identical hormones are available for estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA, growth hormone, thyroid and so forth.  Biologically identical hormones naturally occur in menstruating women. When your body no longer produces hormones or the levels are too low, then what you require are the same hormones your body made.  In order for that to happen, a lab synthesizes, usually from yam or soy (yes, you are not a plant), a hormone replication that matches the molecular structure of the body.  They are "bioidentical" meaning they are the "twin" to what your body produced and therefore can be accepted and utilized correctly.  This also means they are safer.

So, for better heart, bone, brain, skin and sexual functioning you need what your body knew it needed all along: The same hormones that it utilized effectively until now.  Your body, mind and heart are telling you something - keep listening, for you intuitively know something is off.

 

Want your body back?  Want to be that "Hot Woman" without the Hot Flashes, then seek out a qualified doctor, one who understands bioidentical hormones and one who will work with you on discovering what dosage and balance your body is needing.  The result from this safer, healthier and more natural treatment is: improved healthiness, clearer thinking, increased libido, restored energy and overall feeling of balance and well being.

 

Here's to YOUR health!

William H. Lee M.D.

www.agemanagementmd.com

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