Perimenopause - The Sneak Attack

Irritability, insomnia and overall lack of well-being.  Could it be Perimenopause? It’s the stuff that flies under the radar that ultimately takes us down.  Perimenopause is the classic stealth life-wrecker.  Why?  Because the symptoms seem so vague, sometimes come on so slowly and are so often ignored by our gynecologists and primary care docs that we simply don’t know any better.

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Estrogen – Fights Cancer and Alzheimers?!

This is the puzzled question I get from my patients when we discuss healthy estrogen metabolism.  When you figure out how estrogen breaks down in the liver, you quickly learn that while the type of estrogen you take makes a big difference - what your body does with that estrogen, makes all difference in the world.

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