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"Postmenopausal women were a subpopulation in a recent investigation that correlated magnesium deficits with an increase in abdominal girth, one of the physical hallmarks of insulin resistance. The postmenopausal women were especially affected—just ask my now postmenopausal wife, and she'll tell you that the battle of the belly-bulge is her number one issue! Investigators also noted a correlation between lower magnesium levels and higher amounts of actual adipose (fatty) tissue within the abdominal cavity." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, postmenopausal women took estrogen along with progestin, a combination that purportedly offered the benefits of the old ERT, for maladies ranging from hot flashes to osteoporosis, as well as protection from heart disease and breast cancer. Risks from this so-called hormone replacement therapy (HRT) were denied or minimized. A survey conducted in 1995 showed that about 38% of women aged 50 to 75 were using HRT. At the turn of millennium, some 55 million postmenopausal women were on HRT.30 Yet there were problems." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"The urine of postmenopausal women has been collected for its abundance of the substances used in fertility treatment. ¦ The urine of pregnant women has also been collected to make fertility drugs. ¦ Last but not least, urine from pregnant horses has been a source of estrogens used in hormone replacement therapy in postmenopausal women. affects more women than men, especially women under the age of 60, causing them to go to the bathroom frequently and even wet the bed at night (nocturnal enuresis)." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"In the animal model, adequate magnesium intake supports insulin sensitivity as well as glucose metabolism. postmenopausal women were a subpopulation in a recent investigation that correlated magnesium deficits with an increase in abdominal girth, one of the physical hallmarks of insulin resistance. The postmenopausal women were especially affected—just ask my now postmenopausal wife, and she'll tell you that the battle of the belly-bulge is her number one issue!" - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Osteoporosis afflicts more women than men, particularly postmenopausal women, since their ovaries are no longer producing estrogen, which helps to maintain bone mass. Osteoporosis is also more common in smokers and drinkers and is associated with chronic obstructive lung disorders, such as emphysema and bronchitis. Additional causative factors include lack of exercise, a calcium-phosphorus imbalance, lactose intolerance, and a diminished ability to absorb calcium through the intestines. Approximately 15 to 20 million Americans suffer from this disorder." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "For women who are already at high risk, it is not recommended. postmenopausal women who take estrogen without progesterone have an increased risk of endometrial cancer (cancer of the lining of the uterus). The risk of developing gallbladder disease is modestly increased during the first year of estrogen replacement therapy. Premature menopause occurs before the age of 40. Possible causes include a genetic predisposition and autoimmune disorders, in which antibodies are produced that can damage a number of glands, including the ovaries. Smoking has also been known to cause early menopause." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"We also know that postmenopausal women who gain weight are at increased risk for breast cancer," adds Doyle. Perhaps the best course is simply to stick with a low-fat diet. In the recent Women's Intervention Nutrition Study, participants who followed a low-fat diet (around 20 percent of calories from fat) reduced their risks of recurrence from breast cancer during the next 5 years by 24 percent. It's possible, however, that the benefit came not from fat reduction itself but from another factor." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial at the University of Toronto, for example, tested the effects of flaxseed in postmenopausal women with newly diagnosed breast cancer. The researchers concluded that "dietary flaxseed has the potential to reduce tumor growth in patients with breast cancer." In another study, mice were injected with human breast cancer cells and fed several different diets, one of which was supplemented with flaxseed. The researchers found that the cancer spread more slowly to the lungs and lymph node areas in the flaxseed-fed mice." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "Then, in another UCLA study, blood samples from 26 postmenopausal women with breast cancer participating in a 13-day program at the Pritikin Longevity Center and Spa that included exercise and a low-fat, high-fiber diet rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains revealed a 20 to 30 percent increase in tumor-cell death at the end of the program. More needs to be known and tested along this front, admittedly, but there's no question that this is very exciting!" - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.) "The researchers also found that women, especially postmenopausal women, with the most isoflavones in their diet had the lowest risk of breast cancer. Strangely, though, the researchers also found that eating soy foods in general did not seem to lower the risk of breast cancer. Think beyond soy." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Isoflavones may also help maintain bone mass, reduce hot flashes in postmenopausal women, and lower the risk of cardiovascular disease. Drink Clean Avoid or limit coffee and tea. Choose organic, decaffeinated coffee and/or herbal teas instead. Try drinking products that have been decaffeinated by a chemical-free water process, such as the Swiss Water Process; otherwise, decaf drinks can be yet another source of toxins. I recommend switching to green tea if you must have your daily cup. Avoid or significandy minimize alcoholic beverages." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"I've treated headaches in postmenopausal women, including migraines, that responded really well to IV magnesium, as have many pain clinics. I also recommend 400 milligrams (mg) of magnesium orally once or twice a day for prevention. (And by the way, for a lot of menopausal women who suffered breakthrough headaches on magnesium alone, adding topical progesterone was the solution.) But what is so special about this mineral that I refer to it so often as the unsung hero?" - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.) "Department of Agriculture, twenty-two postmenopausal women were admitted to a hospital metabolic ward, where they ate a diet of conventional food that contained either less than one half, or more than the recommended dietary allowance for magnesium (320 mg per day). Patients' heartbeats were continually monitored for twenty-one hours, and magnesium levels were analyzed in red blood cells, blood plasma, and urine. When the patients were on the low magnesium diet, red blood cell, blood plasma, and urine levels of magnesium were all lowered." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"The Cholesterol and Recurrent Events (CARE) study randomized 4,159 patients (men and postmenopausal women) with a history of heart attack, giving them either pravastatin (Pravachol) or a placebo.9 Subjects on pravastatin had heart attacks and/or cardiac-related death in 10.2% of cases as opposed to 13.2% of those taking a placebo. One hundred nineteen (6%) patients taking the placebo died from heart disease as opposed to ninety-six (5%) taking pravastatin. However, only seventy-five (3.6%) taking the placebo died from noncardiac causes as opposed to eighty-four (4%) taking pravastatin." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Lupus is rare in postmenopausal women and in men. Estrogen and progesterone probably play important roles in the development of lupus. Estrogen combined with interferon spurs D-cells to develop into activated inflammatory cells rather than staying naive and tolerant. But lupus probably has its earliest origins during fetal development and/or childhood, when many scavenger cells are primed with self-evidence." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"This changes dramatically after menopause. postmenopausal women have much higher levels of homocysteine. Could this explain in part both the increased risk of heart disease and osteoporosis in postmenopausal women?18 The fact remains these women need higher amounts of folic acid, vitamin B6, and vitamin B12. Boron Boron is an interesting nutrient when it comes to bone metabolism. When study subjects took boron in supplementation, the urinary excretion of calcium decreased by approximately 40 percent. Boron also increases magnesium concentrations and decreases phosphorous levels." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"Higher levels of DHEAS appear to be linked to an increased risk for ovarian cancer (in both pre- and postmenopausal women) as well as breast cancer (in postmenopausal women). ?In addition, because DHEA is converted to testosterone, there is concern that long-term use of DHEA supplements may raise the risk for prostate cancer or, in those who have the disease, hasten its progression. It appeared that for old men with a deficit of testosterone, Mg(2+) supplementation during treatment with DHEA can increased the free testosterone concentration and its biological effect." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"The risk of breast cancer associated with HRT in 54,548 postmenopausal women who had never taken any HRT was studied in the E3N-EPIC (National Education System-European Prospective Investigation into Cancer & Nutrition) study. HRT containing synthetic progestogens was associated with a 40 percent increase in the risk of breast cancer as opposed to no increase in risk with HRT that contained micron-ized progesterone. When it comes to metabolic function, studies suggest that synthetic progestogens may worsen insulin sensitivity." - 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.) "Coffee consumption and risk of type 2 diabetes mellitus: An 11-year prospective study of 28,812 postmenopausal women. Arch Intern Med 2006; 166:1311 -16. Pi-Sunyer FX. The role of viscous soluble fiber in the metabolic control of diabetes. A review with special emphasis on cereals rich in beta-glucan. Diabetes Care 1997 Nov; 29(11): 1774-80. Pittas AG, Dawson-Hughes B et al. Vitamin D and calcium intake in relation to type 2 diabetes in women. Diabetes Care 2006 Mar; 29(3):650-56. Pittas AG et al. The role of vitamin D and calcium in type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis." - 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.) "Hormone replacement therapy, insulin sensitivity, and abdominal obesity in postmenopausal women. Diabetes Care 2002 Jan; 25(1): 127-33. Soulis-Liparota T et al. Retardation by aminoguanidine of development of albuminuria, mesangial expansion and tissue fluorescence in streptozotocin induced diabetic rat. Diabetes 1991; 40:1328-34. Tilton R et al. Prevention of diabetic vascular dysfunction by guanidines. Inhibition of nitric oxide synthase versus advanced glycation end-product formation. Diabetes 1993; 42:221-32. Tsunekawa S et al." - 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.)

"Evidence from the Women's Health Study, a project that monitored the status of twenty-eight thousand initially healthy postmenopausal women, put a new risk factor into the spotlight: C-reactive protein (CRP), a key biochemical substance indicating the presence of vascular inflammation. People with the highest level of CRP had five times the risk of developing CVD and four times the risk of a heart attack or a stroke compared to individuals with the lowest level." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "In contrast, postmenopausal women are four times more likely to have heart attacks. They lose their estrogen protection and also the protection of regular iron release through menstruation. The level of ferritin begins to soar after menopause. For men, this is an issue as well. In 1992, a five-year Finnish study of nineteen hundred men, aged forty-two to sixty, reported that those with ferritin levels above 200 ug/L were more than twice as likely to have a heart attack." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "A lower CoQIO level has also been cited as a contributing factor in breast cancer—a finding that should be a cause for caution when prescribing statins to postmenopausal women, a high-risk population for breast cancer. The bottom line is that statins can work for you or against you. Everyone is unique and has to weigh the potential risk/reward ratio. If you have a family history of high lipids, early heart attacks, and premature death, you may opt to be more aggressive. But suppose you are a young male or female in your forties with no history of heart disease." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "Vitamin C enhances iron absorption and thus may be of additional value to menstruating women, but in men and postmenopausal women this effect represents some concern. You need enough iron in your diet to make a normal complement of red blood cells, but beyond that iron has negative health effects. Free iron, not participating in hemoglobin formation or other iron-requiring biochemical processes, acts as a free radical, promoting the oxidation of LDL and other intracellular and extracellular structures." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"This study followed 2,763 postmenopausal women with an average age of sixty-seven. In this age group, despite small improvements in good cholesterol and some lowering of bad cholesterol, Prempro failed to reduce heart disease, compared with women not taking any hormones. Additional bad news was an increase in blood clots in the veins of the legs and the lungs and a small increase in stroke. So kiss your Prempro good-bye. The Million Women Study recruited 1,084,110 women living in the United Kingdom between 1996 and 2001." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "It is estimated that 40 percent of postmenopausal women suffer from this. When it occurs, the cells that line your vagina shrink, or atrophy, causing your vaginal wall to thin and become dry. This may cause vaginal itching, burning, or bleeding; less intense orgasms; painful intercourse; urinary frequency (often disrupting sleep); or stress incontinence (loss of urine while coughing, laughing, or straining). When the vagina is too dry, bacteria and yeast become imbalanced, and chronic infections, irritation, and discharge can develop." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"A new study conducted by scientists at the German Cancer Research Center Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), collaborating with researchers of the University Hospitals in Hamburg-Eppendorf, provides clear evidence that postmenopausal women with low blood levels of vitamin D clearly have a significantly increased risk of breast cancer. The study was released in April 2008 and published in the medical journal Carcinogenesis." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Adults need 1,200 milligrams of calcium a day, and postmenopausal women and adults sixty-five or older need 1,500 milligrams a day. Vitamin D and Diet Truths You should supplement your vitamin D in a weight-based dose that you adjust according to your vitamin D blood level. Ideal vitamin D levels are between 50 and 70. You may not need any additional calcium in the form of supplements if your diet is acid-base-balanced and your vitamin D levels are between 50 and 70. Vitamin D and Diet Myths Osteoporosis is a disease of aging that begins after menopause." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"Fifty postmenopausal women were randomly assigned to receive either 28.5 mg, 57.0 mg, or 85.5 mg of Rimostil for six months, followed by two months of a placebo. Bone density was measured at baseline, three months, and six months using a DXA scan. (Lipid levels and uterine lining thickness were also measured in this study.) All three doses of Rimostil were associated with a 2.9 to 4 percent increase in bone density from zero to six months in the proximal radius and ulna (closest to the elbow). No significant change in bone density occurred at the distal radius and ulna." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The result is that many menopausal and postmenopausal women continue to suffer from estrogen dominance. Approximately one in every four American women will enter an abrupt, artificial menopause as the result of a hysterectomy. If you are a woman who has had a partial hysterectomy—that is, removal of the uterus only—you can still be estrogen dominant because your ovaries will continue to produce some estrogen and even less progesterone." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

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