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Perimenopause: The Ovary’s Frustrating Grand Finale

Women in midlife increasingly hear the words “estrogen deficiency” spoken as the ultimate in bad news. “Everyone knows” that low estrogen levels cause heart disease, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s and frigidity. Our purpose here first is to put women’s midlife concerns into a new and more accurate hormonal picture. Specifically, to present information about high estrogen levels in the perimenopause; how a woman can tell when her estrogen levels are high and out of balance with progesterone and then we’ll review the many ways a woman can help herself through perimenopause.

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Type: 
Articles
Life Phase: 
Perimenopause
Topic: 
Heavy flow, Cramps and painful periods, Hot flushes, Night sweats, Progesterone therapy, Sleep disturbances

Older Women's Fracture Prevention: the importance of bone formation

Women’s bone health is closely related to the ovarian hormones,

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Type: 
Articles
Life Phase: 
Perimenopause, Menopause
Topic: 
Hot flushes, Osteoporosis and bone health, Progesterone therapy, Sleep disturbances

Daily Perimenopause Diary

For perimenopausal women, including women with regular cycles who have hot flushes or night sweats
You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to read and print them. If you don't already have this program, you can download it for free.

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Type: 
Diary
Life Phase: 
Perimenopause
Topic: 
Heavy flow, Cramps and painful periods, Hot flushes, Ovulation and menstrual cycles, Sleep disturbances

Estrogen’s Storm Season

This fiction book begins as eight frustrated midlife women—from all walks of life—meet Dr. Kailey Madrona, a woman specialist. All are in perimenopause, the long and chaotic transition to menopause. They are as different as women can be—yet they share the mysterious experiences of perimenopause, night sweats, flooding periods or mood swings. We follow these women as they consult Dr. Madrona, learn the surprising hormonal changes explaining their symptoms, get better or worse, and try or refuse therapies. As each woman lives through her particular challenge, we begin to see how we, too, can survive perimenopause!

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Type: 
Book
Life Phase: 
Perimenopause
Topic: 
Fertility, Heavy flow, Cramps and painful periods, Hot flushes, Night sweats, Osteoporosis and bone health, Progesterone therapy, Sleep disturbances

Progesterone (not Estrogen) for Hot Flushes in Perimenopausal and Menopausal Women

In less than a year, two influential articles reporting on consensus recommendations for therapy of “menopause-associated” and “menopausal” symptoms concluded that estrogen (with or without progestin) is the optimal therapy.
The purposes of this article are to propose that progesterone therapy is an equally or more effective hot flush/night sweat therapy than estrogen and to show that progesterone is safer than estrogen or estrogen with progestin (a synthetic cousin of progesterone) therapy.

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Type: 
Articles
Life Phase: 
Perimenopause, Menopause
Topic: 
Hot flushes, Night sweats, Ovarian Hormone Therapy OHT, Progesterone therapy, Sleep disturbances

Perimenopause is a time of “Endogenous Ovarian Hyperstimulation”

“Perimenopausal endogenous ovarian hyper-stimulation” is the exact opposite of “The Myth of the Shriveling Ovary”: High estrogen levels during perimenopause, coupled with characteristically intermittent ovulation, can explain much of the misery of perimenopause.

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Type: 
Articles
Life Phase: 
Perimenopause
Topic: 
Heavy flow, Hot flushes, Night sweats, Osteoporosis and bone health, Progesterone therapy, Sleep disturbances

Daily Menopause Diary

This diary is for women who have gone at least 12 months without a menstrual period
You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to read and print them. If you don't already have this program, you can download it for free

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Type: 
Diary
Life Phase: 
Menopause
Topic: 
Hot flushes, Night sweats, Sleep disturbances

Estrogen’s Storm Season: Stories of Perimenopause

Estrogen's Storm Season

by Dr. Jerilynn C Prior

New second edition available

Estrogen’s Storm Season is now available in BOTH print and eBook (Mobi and ePUB) versions!

All royalties are recieved in our Endowment fund (overseen by UBC) and support CeMCOR's research and future.

It is full of lively, realistic stories with which women can relate and evidence-based, empowering perimenopause information. It was a finalist in 2006 for the Independent Publisher Book Award in Health.

Purchase your ebook copy via our Amazon Kindle or
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Paperback copies (with updated insert) still available here.

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