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"In Okinawa people enjoy what may be the highest life expectancy (in 2000 figures that worked out to be 78 years for men and 86 years for women), the most years of healthy life (the Japanese have the greatest number of disability-free years at 72.3 for men; 77.7 for women), and one of the highest centenarian ratios (about as high as 5 per 10,000). They suffer from diseases that kill Americans, but at much lower rates: a fifth the rate of cardiovascular disease, a fourth the rate of breast and prostate cancer, and a third the rate of dementia." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"Note: There is one quiz for women and one for men.) In the box on the right, place a check for each positive answer.Then find out how severe your problem is using the scoring key below. SEXUAL HORMONES QUIZ FOR WOMEN* have premenstrual syndrome. • have monthly weight fluctuation. • have edema, swelling, puffiness, or water retention. • feel bloated. • have headaches. • have mood swings. • have tender, enlarged breasts. • am depressed. • feel unable to cope with ordinary demands. • have backaches, joint, or muscle pain." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"The dosing of chromium recommended by the Institute of Medicine is 35 meg for men and 25 meg for women ages nineteen to fifty years; 30 meg for men and 20 meg for women fifty-one years and older; and 30 meg for pregnant or breast-feeding women nineteen years and older. We have had excellent results with a suggested dosage of 600 to 1,000 meg daily. Cinnamon Since the dawn of human civilization, the aromatic spice cinnamon has been used to enhance food flavor and to manage various health conditions." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Pfizer even conducted testing over a period of eight years to show that Viagra is good for women. They were unable to prove correlation largely because female sex problems are often due to emotions, unlike men whose problem is lack of blood flow to achieve an erection. Pfizer gave up on the trials for women, but many of them still use it. A black market has been established and sales of the drug to women are flourishing. Additionally, the women get the drug from their sexual partners who have legitimate prescriptions." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"The problem for women is some combination of discrimination and ignorance, the latter because presenting symptoms fot females are more varied and less predictable than they are for men. For African Americans, one can only conclude that an unacceptable discrimination is at the heart of these problems. It is all too obvious that emergency services do not work as well for women and blacks as they do for men and whites. CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Critical care is a new medical specialty. The first hospital coronary care units were introduced in thel960s." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"It can also serve as a guide for women of any age suffering from deficiencies or imbalances of hormones. This book will help women to take charge of their own health. Symptoms are not the enemy to be masked by the latest new drug on the market. We must carefully listen to our symptoms. They are feedback from our body that there is imbalance, deficiency, or injury of some kind. Sure, you may be getting older, but you feel lousy because you are out of balance. By understanding hormonal symptoms, you can learn how to bring hormonal balance back safely." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Green vegetables were found to be highly beneficial for men, but not statistically for women. Increased coffee consumption was associated with an increased risk of squamous cell and small cell lung carcinomas in men. Increased consumption of dried or salted fish was not beneficial for men or women. The researchers speculate that processing destroys the beneficial omega-3 oils present in raw and cooked fish. Eat your sushi, especially salmon, herring, and tuna. A Sure Thing?" - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "This makes flaxseed oil or meal a great choice for women who can't use soy or who simply want another source of phytohormones. Pioneering Lignan Research Use of flaxseed as a cancer prophylactic is "an area that I think has a lot of promise," notes Lilian U. Thompson, Ph.D., of the University of Toronto, one of the world's leading authorities on flax's human health benefits, especially in the area of its use in protecting against breast cancer. Amazingly, flaxseed lignans can actually shrink tumors, as demonstrated in animal studies." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"We know, first of all, that she is female: twice as many psychiatric drugs are prescribed for women as men.2 Remarkably, in 2002, more than one in three doctor's office visits by women involved the prescription of an antidepressant, either for a new prescription or the maintenance of an existing one.3 We know that her antidepressants were likely not prescribed by a psychiatrist: most antidepressants are now prescribed by family doctors." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Life for women with children isn't always that simple. Why would a club designed for women not offer a simple service like a baby-sitting area? Because it costs money for additional rental space and payroll for staffing to watch the kids. These are expenses that this type of operation cannot afford. Okay, let's look past this lack of baseline services and amenities to what is actually offered. They must at least have the highest quality equipment and program available since they do not offer anything else, right? Unfortunately not." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"Given how rare it was for women to occupy prominent roles in society at the time, some have seen the mind-cure movement as an important part of the early history of American feminism. In hindsight, we can understand why it could have come to play such a role. Women were understood to be physically frail and prone to illness, but mind-cure offered them a means of conquering their physical limitations. The minds of women were supposed to be more intuitive than rational, but mind-cure taught that these intuitive qualities were the very ones that opened the door to divine power." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"This is fertile ground for research and important news for women with a history of breast cancer who are wondering why they developed cancer and what they can do to prevent it from recurring. I try to have all of my patients do polymorphic testing to better understand their metabolic weaknesses and risks. Rarely, women require a test for two specific genes (known as BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes) that are closely linked to ovarian and breast cancer." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"However, a more widely practiced treatment for neurasthenia, at least for women, was total bed rest. Developed by the American neurologist S. Weir Mitchell, the socalled rest cure for neurasthenia involved taking women away from their families, sending them to bed, forbidding them to move, denying them access to any visitors, and feeding them a diet designed to build up their "fat and blood" reserves.6 For men, the cure for neurasthenia was different." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "Many of these news reports mentioned Stanford psychiatrist David Spiegel's 1989 landmark study suggesting that support group participation may have increased survival time for women with metastatic breast cancer. . . . While I did not have metastatic breast cancer, I quickly added support group participation to my cancer survival checklist—giving little thought to whether it would feel good. . . . What I really wanted to do on the cold Boston winter day that the support group met, was to sit home and watch "Oprah" while drinking some Starbucks coffee." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.) "The sessions became a time and a place for women to express some of their deepest fears, what one called "that sense of waking up at three in the morning with an elephant sitting on your chest." She added: "I wonder if I will live to see my son graduate from high school or my daughter get married. I have to keep up a front everywhere else—that's so hard."68 Then things began to unravel. In 2001, a multisite study failed to replicate Spiegel's findings." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"These amounts are pretty paltry; 5 mg isn't even 65 percent of the recommended daily allowance (RDA) for women, and it's less than half of what's recommended for healthy men. (It could reasonably be assumed Natural Prescription for Immune Support Zinc: 30-50 mg* Vitamin C: 1 -2 g Selenium: 200 meg Probiotics: 10 billion bacteria Multivitamin/mineral: Do not exceed 35-40 mg of zinc per day unless you are working with a health-care provider." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Sleep surveys show that nearly half of the people in our country report some sleep problems, but from my experience it seems much higher, especially for women during perimenopause and menopause. Many things affect our sleep, such as stress, foods, medications, temperature, sounds, and light. Even what we do before going to bed is important. Answering e-mails, watching TV shows about crime and murder, exercising, thinking about money and business, or planning the next day's agenda are all activities that are not conducive to sleep." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"Of those, 83% received follow-up care—which was quite expensive, averaging $1,024 for women, and $1,171 for men. "Along with trials evaluating the health benefits of available cancer screening modalities," the authors conclude, "investigations into potential undesirable consequences of cancer screening are also warranted."31 Iatrogenesis is an issue. It is a mistake to assume the safety of a procedure, especially if it is even minimally invasive.32 Any and all screening that uses radiation increases the patient's risk of cancer." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "It is all too obvious that emergency services do not work as well for women and blacks as they do for men and whites. CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE Critical care is a new medical specialty. The first hospital coronary care units were introduced in thel960s. The Society for Critical Care Medicine was founded in 1970, yet it was not until 1980 that physicians could be certified in critical care medicine." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"These studies and the further use of this plant in menopausal women will be discussed in much detail in Chapter 12. for women who have amenorrhea due to hypoestrogenic states, a state similar to menopause, black cohosh will be important in relieving some symptoms. Recent studies even indicate that black cohosh may decrease risk factors associated with menopause such as osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease and may even be effective in preventing bone loss.25-27 Black Cohosh 40-80 mg standardized extract twice daily Rhodiola." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"Here's how the media reported the findings: "Antioxidants do not protect high-risk women from heart disease" (Fox News), "Antioxidants don't lower heart risk" (WebMD), "Vitamins No Magic Bullet for Heart Health" (ABC News), and "Common Vitamins No Help for Women's Hearts" (Reuters). Hidden Beneath the Headlines Sounds pretty bad, doesn't it? Here's what was buried in the data: Vitamin E led to a 22 percent reduction in the risk of heart attack. It also led to a 27 percent reduction in the risk for stroke." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "High-fiber diet: 35 mg or more daily from food or supplements Adequate protein: A good guideline to start with is 30 percent of daily calories or one-third of each plate of food Low-carb diet of moderate calories: 1,400 for women (105 g protein), 1,800 for men (135 g protein) L-carnitine: 1,500 to 4,000 mg Daily exercise: The more the better But here's the thing: Compliance is always an issue in weight loss studies, and not everyone in this study complied with the CLA regimen." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"The sessions became a time and a place for women to express some of their deepest fears," explained head researcher Dr. Spiegel. One participant referred to her fear as "that sense of waking up at three in the morning with an elephant sitting on your chest." She added, "I wonder if I will live to see my son graduate from high school or my daughter get married. I have to keep up a front everywhere else—that's so hard." Spiegel also reported a "good deal of crying in these groups, as well as laughter . . . the groups provided a setting in which they could deal with their fears." - Rick Foster, Greg Hicks, M.D., Jen Seda, Choosing Brilliant Health: 9 Choices That Redefine What It Takes to Create Lifelong Vitality and Well-Being (Get the book.)

"After reviewing 117 studies conducted between 1966 and 2005, an expert panel from the American College of Physicians (ACP), found the data on mammography screening for women in their 40s are so unclear that the effectiveness of reducing breast cancer death could be either 15% or " ... nearly zero." • Researchers at the Nordic Cochrane Centre in Denmark found that for every 2,000 women who received mammograms over a 10-year period, only one would have her life prolonged, but 10 would endure unnecessary and potentially harmful treatments." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Experts now no longer recommend following a strict examination routine, but for women to get to know what is normal, and feel their breasts regularly for signs of any changes. They should look out for a new lump or hard knot found in the breast or armpit, or unusual changes in the size, color, shape or symmetry of the breast and nipple, such as swelling or thickening of the breast. Is there a good alternative screening method? Yes, there is a side-effect free and inexpensive screening technology that is far more effective than mammography." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Preventive Services Task Force could manage in 2002 was a compromise posture, based on "fair evidence" for mammographic screening "every 1 to 2 years for women aged 40 and older." To conclude that the evidence was "fair" required accepting the results of lesser studies to temper the inferences derived from the randomized controlled trials. The American College of Physicians has revisited these and more recent studies (Armstrong et al. 2007; Qaseem et al. 2007) to reach a much more definitive conclusion. The risk/benefit ratio favors informed consent before screening in this age group." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"The 2003 Task Force gave a "B" grade for yearly mammograms for women over forty. A 2002 editorial in the Annals of Internal Medicine maintained that the efficacy of mammograms for younger women is an open question. "The debate is worth following closely," concluded the editor of the journal, "because women are deciding about breast cancer screening, and it's our role to keep them informed as best we can." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"John's wort and black cohosh appears to be especially useful for women who suffer from menopause-related depression, especially interesting since recent research suggests that compounds in black cohosh bind to serotonin receptors in the brain. Another recent study in the journal Gynecological Endocrinology reported that black cohosh is as effective as the low-dose estrogen patch for relieving most symptoms and can also have a positive effect on cardiac risks. "Since 2003 there have been about ten clinical studies on black cohosh, and all were positive," according to Gail Mahady, Ph.D." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Moderate levels are often defined as one drink per day for women and two drinks per day for men. Drinking alcoholic beverages with food and water can also reduce some of the deleterious effects. Special supplementation may be warranted for alcoholics who do not eat enough nutrients. Appendix F: Osteoporosis Osteoporosis is a disease that involves loss of bone strength leading to an increased risk of fracture. Osteoporosis afflicts 25 million people in the United States. Women are six times more likely to have osteoporosis than men. There are no symptoms unless a bone is broken." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Patty and Amon are conscientious people who generally communicate well and support each other, which is extremely important for women going through hormonal changes. Amon suggests that they go to the gym together on days she'd rather skip it. "Patty is one of those people in whom you can see the storm clouds building before it comes," he says. The term PMS became politicized in the 1970s because some felt that it labeled a natural aspect of women's lives as a medical issue and created a perception that all women have a psychiatric disorder once a month." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

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