Hormone replacement therapy balances your estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone levels. Since your hormone production slows during menopause, hormone replacement therapy often helps reverse the effects. Hormone replacement therapy relieves symptoms Read More…
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Is Hormone Replacement Therapy the Key to Your Menopause Relief?
Posted in Hormone Therapy, Hormones, Menopause, MonaLisa Touch Chico, Uncategorized Tagged with: estrogen, hormone replacement, hormone replacement therapy, hormone therapy, menopause, progesterone, testosterone
Menopause Before 40 – You Are Not Alone
While the average age for “natural” menopause in the US is 51, women can often experience onset earlier or later. Women experience early menopause for a variety of reasons such as genetics, illness, hormonal imbalance, or medical procedures. Read More…
How can MonaLisa Touch Improve the Lives of Women?
What happens when vaginal atrophy symptoms due to menopause are significantly reduced or disappear completely? Sure, lubrication is restored and the vaginal tissues are healed, but I’m looking for more. What happens for women when these symptoms Read More…
Vitamin D and Magnesium Deficiencies
All vitamins and minerals are important to the human body. Each serves a purpose and works in conjunction with the others to keep your body running efficiently, free of illness and disease. Although it’s hard to say which vitamins and…
Is MonaLisa Touch Safe for Younger Women (20s-40s)?
If you follow our blog posts, you probably know by now that MonaLisa Touch is designed to drastically reduce or eliminate the painful and annoying symptoms of menopause. Vaginal atrophy symptoms like dryness, burning, itching, painful intercourse, and Read More…
More Clinical Trials Happening on MonaLisa Touch
The Michigan Institute of Women’s Health is currently conducting a clinical trial on the MonaLisa Touch treatment. A randomized, double-blind placebo controlled study of 34 participants aims to study the effectiveness of MonaLisa Touch on genitourinary Read More…
Posted in Hormone Therapy, Hormones, Menopause, MonaLisa Touch Chico, Procedures, Treatments, Uncategorized
How Long Should I Take Hormone Replacement Therapy?
If you are taking hormone replacement therapy, you may be wondering, “How long do I need to be taking this?” “Will I be on this the rest of my life?” “When is a safe time for me to stop taking…
Posted in Atherosclerosis, Heart Disease, Hormone Therapy, Hormones, Menopause, Symptoms, Treatments
Why Postmenopausal Women Aren’t Having/Enjoying Sex
Last month Medscape published study results of postmenopausal women who answered questions regarding sexual activity. Researchers wanted to know what factors affected sexual enjoyment. A little more than 24,000 women (average age of 64) completed Read More…
Vaginal Atrophy Symptoms Helped by MonaLisa Touch
I was doing some browsing online looking at the various clinical trials that are being conducted in the field of gynecology– specifically regarding vaginal atrophy symptoms. Vaginal atrophy, as you know from my other blogs, happens because of lowered Read…
Vaginal Atrophy and How it Affects a Woman’s Quality of Life
Vaginal Atrophy is a medical term to describe a variety of physical symptoms that result from reduced estrogen levels in the female body (it usually occurs during natural menopause but is likely to occur after hysterectomy or with certain cancer…