Articles for topic: News & Research

 

Anti-Ageing Hormones Have Little or No Benefit But are High Risk

The American Medical Association recently published an assessment of the risks and benefits of growth hormone, testosterone, estrogen and DHEA for anti-ageing.

 

More than 50 percent Higher Risk of Asthma on Estrogen-only HRT

French and Mexican researchers found that compared with women who had never used any form of HRT, those who did use it were 21 percent more likely to develop asthma…

 

Why HRT Prescribing Has Fallen in the last 5 years

A study undertaken in 2009 at Stanford University in California found that women who take HRT for more than five years double their risk of suffering breast cancer for every 12 months they spend taking it.

 

Popular Antidepressant Blocks the Beneficial Effects of Tamoxifen in Breast Cancer

Paroxetine may be given under the trade names of Seroxat or Paxil and if taken at the same time as Tamoxifen has an increased risk of death according to a study published on the British Medical Journal website.

 

Matcha Magic for New Year Health

The thing I particularly like about green tea is that it is both energising and calming and because matcha is a fine powder that you mix with hot or cold liquid there is no waste as you have the whole leaf in powder form.

 

According to AnnA – Could Mangos Prevent Cancer?

The researchers documented that the division process cancer cells go through was interrupted by mango extract.

 

Why Yam Is Not Progesterone in Disguise

If you know anything about progesterone you know about the long-running confusion about taking yam cream instead of progesterone

 

Traumatic Brain Injuries May Be Helped by Progesterone

New research done at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, is recommending that progesterone is a viable treatment option for traumatic brain injuries.

 

Early Puberty Is On The Rise

Studies have shown that the average age of puberty is falling fast. Phytoestrogens present in food are boosting oestrogen levels in the population at large and could partly explain this phenomenon.

 
 
 
 
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