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Oct 31 2011

Stress, High Cortisol and Menopause

Tweet Stress can kill you. We’ve all heard this saying, but it is literally true. High stress during menopause can cause high cortisol levels in the body and therefore cause one of the worst symptoms of menopause and that is hot flashes. Even using bioidentical hormone therapy will not help as much as it should.  [...]

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Nov 30 2010

Low DHEA Levels

Tweet DHEA – dehydroepiandrosterone is a steroid hormone like progesterone and estrogen.  It is another hormone in the body that declines as you grow older.  DHEA is known as the “mother hormone.”  The adrenal gland which produces about 150 hormones also produces DHEA.  It is also produced in the brain. Estrogen and testosterone are made [...]

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