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Hot Flash Havoc Newsletter
Volume 2, Issue 9
October 2012 |
 
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UPCOMING
HOT FLASH HAVOC EVENTS!
New Dates Announcing Soon:
NEW MILFORD, NEW JERSEY
SANTA MONICA, CALIFORNIA
WASHINGTON, DC
SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA
More Dates to be Announced in 2013:
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"HOLY MENOPAUSE DAY, BATMAN!" Dear Hot Flashers,
Yes ... as I write this, it is in fact, World Menopause Day (WMD).  This day was officially designated in 1983 and look how long it has taken to become a topic that can be discussed not only openly but through organizations like the International Menopause Society (IMS) and the member national societies of CAMS, the Council of Affiliated Menopause Societies and yes, our movie, HOT FLASH HAVOC, women everywhere at last have an educated basis for that discussion.
The importance of having a day designated somehow gives credibility and empowers all of us to continue our crusade to "open the conversation" and spread the word that knowledge is a good thing and we need to pay it forward. WMD is seen as an opportunity to educate women about menopause and talk to their doctors on how to manage its symptoms.
So today, this month and everyday look to us to help you separate menopausal facts from fiction in a "funny and entertaining way."  Heidi Houston
Executive Producer
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Press Release: International Menopause Society World Menopause Day 2012
To celebrate World Menopause Day, October 18th 2012, IMS is launching a new campaign to create awareness of understanding weight gain at menopause and the implications it can have on the future health of women in the post-menopausal period. 
For women aged 55-65 years, weight gain is one of their major health concerns and many are not aware of the health implications of excessive weight gain, particularly around the abdomen, which is associated with a heightened risk of cardiovascular and metabolic disease, and also impacts adversely on health-related quality of life and sexual function.
Tobie de Villiers, President of IMS, commented;
"As a result of the review of the evidence, the IMS concludes that the hormonal changes that occur as women go through menopause substantially contribute to increased central abdominal obesity which leads to increased physical and psychological ill health. There is strong evidence that estrogen therapy may partly prevent this menopause-related change in body fat distribution and the associated metabolic effects. However, further studies are required to identify the women most likely to gain metabolic benefit from menopausal hormone therapy in order to develop evidence-based clinical recommendations."
An educational toolkit of materials have been developed to support local country initiatives throughout the month of October to raise awareness of this potential health issue and many have been translated into key languages to ensure the campaign has a truly international perspective.
For further information or to download your own copy of the full review please go to www.imsociety.org |
Press Release: International Menopause Society World Menopause Month
The International Menopause Society, in collaboration with the World Health Organization, has designated October 18 as World Menopause Day. In observation of the Day, the IMS and the member national societies of CAMS, the Council of Affiliated Menopause Societies, distribute materials and organize activities to inform women about menopause, its management and the impact of estrogen loss. Since it is not always possible for local societies to arrange activities for this specific day, the IMS has now designated October as World Menopause Month. Local societies can also collaborate with other organizations working in the field of adult women's health, such as societies for osteoporosis and breast cancer, to organize joint events. World Menopause Month can also be a call to implement policies that support research and treatment in the area of menopausal health.
As the world's population ages, there will be increasing numbers of women entering menopause and living beyond post menopause. The potential symptoms of menopause may have a negative impact on the quality of daily life. Moreover, the consequences of menopause can lead to a host of age-related diseases including heart disease and osteoporosis. Nations around the world should continue to educate women about menopause and the benefits of preventive health care.
The IMS hopes that national societies will take the opportunity of World Menopause Month to highlight the increasing importance of menopausal health issues, by contacting the women of their country to encourage them to talk to their doctors about menopause and its long-term effects. |
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New HRT Data Published: New worldwide research on benefits of hormones and heart disease. ACP InternistWeekly Welcome to this week's issue of ACP InternistWeekly, 12 October 22, 2012 an update for internists published every Tuesday by the American College of Physicians.
http://www.acpinternist.org/weekly/archives/2012/10/16/index.html#top
HRT for 10 years appears to cut risk of heart failure and heart attack without increasing cancer, deep venous thrombosis or stroke.
Women who take hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for 10 years after menopause may have a  significantly reduced risk of mortality, heart failure and heart attack without any increased risk of cancer, deep venous thrombosis or stroke, a study found. Danish researchers carried out a randomized trial over 10 years with six years of additional follow-up on 1,006 white, healthy, recently menopausal women age 45 to 58. In the study, 504 received hormone replacement therapy and 502 didn't. Results appeared Oct. 9 at BMJ. After 10 years, 16 women in the treatment group had either died of or were hospitalized for a heart attack or experienced heart failure, compared to 33 in the control group (hazard ratio [HR], 0.48; 95% CI, 0.26 to 0.87; P=0.015). Deaths were 15 in the treatment group compared with 26 in the control group (HR, 0.57; 95% CI, 0.30 to 1.08; P=0.084). There was no increase in any cancer (36 in the treated group vs. 39 in the control group; HR, 0.92; 95% CI, 0.58 to 1.45; P=0.71) or breast cancer (10 in the treated group vs. 17 in the control group; HR, 0.58; 95% CI, 0.27 to 1.27; P=0.17) associated with HRT. This effect lasted for the 16 years of treatment and follow-up. There were two cases of deep venous thrombosis in the treated group versus one in the control group (HR, 2.01; 95% CI, 0.18 to 22.16). There were 11 strokes in the treatment group compared to 14 in the control group (HR, 0.77; 95% CI, 0.35 to 1.70). Researchers wrote, "With the longest duration of randomized treatment and complete and long-term follow up, the present study provides a unique opportunity to study the clinical implications of long term hormone therapy started in young postmenopausal women within three to 24 months of menopause when randomized."
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What Your Mother Never Told You: If your progesterone is too high, and your estrogen too low after your tubes are tied or you are going through perimenopause, then you feel fat, fuzzy, bloated, lethargic and crave sweets.
If thyroid and adrenal hormones are out of balance, you can have many of the same prob- lems.
Disruptive symptoms or health problems that might once have gone unnoticed when women rarely worked outside the home can now get seriously in your way when you are holding down a full-time job, PLUS being a wife and/or mother, PLUS being active in the community, PLUS taking care of older parents! Hormones are part of the body's great communication system to make it work properly, and I believe that measuring ovarian hormone levels should be a routine part of women's health care. You have to get your hormones properly checked if you are going to find answers to what is robbing your energy, aging your body, and sapping your spirit. The good news is that once you understand that out-of-balance hormones can be a major cause of so many health problems, there are many options to help you feel better - from healthy diet, exercise, stress management to bioidentical hormones (many are FDA-approved, check my newsletter for a list), and sometimes other medications. Hormone levels can be checked with simple, reliable blood tests. Download my free booklet to see what they are. Then talk to your doctor and get them done. Get checked out correctly. A saliva test in a pharmacy on on-line is NOT the way to get sound, reliable medical advice. Do it right. Follow the directions in my free booklet, and my books. Work with your physician to get the answers and options right for YOU. Once you know what your various hormone levels are, you can read my books for more infor- mation about what they mean, and all the treatment options to help you feel happy, healthy, strong and savvy.
One of the things I love about being a physician and studying medicine is that I am constantly learning about all the wonderful and miraculous things in our bodies that create us and keep us going, keep us balancing, responding, and accommodating as we live each day. This whole process is exquisitely orchestrated and intertwined. Very few things will throw off this balance in a woman's body as much as the loss of estrogen. That's why I have written my Savvy Woman's GuideTM series: to help you have a quick refer- ence of how your body works, what happens when the hormones go awry, and what you can DO about it.
"But I don't have time to read a book," you say. Well, I know you are busy. That's why I designed the Savvy Woman's GuideTM books to be small enough you can carry them in your pocketbook and read when you are waiting in traffic, when you are waiting at appointments or to pick up the kids....grab these "wasted" minutes in your day and use them to help you learn how to get healthy and full of energy again! Read more on my website, www.herplace.com or my six books, available on Amazon or at your local bookstore. Learn what YOU control to get your health back. Get going, JUST DO IT. YOU are all you've got. Take care of YOU. |
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