What Is Premature Menopause?
The menopause, strictly speaking, starts at the time of your last period although the term is usually used to cover a longer time span. The average age at which periods stop is 50 but anything between...
View ArticleArtificial Pancreas in Pregnancy Promises Fewer Diabetes Deaths and...
I wrote earlier this year about the development of an artificial ovary, and now research funded by leading health charity Diabetes UK has for the first time successfully demonstrated the potential of...
View ArticleNatural Progesterone Helps Reduce Premature Births by Half
My colleagues Drs Bond and Coope have for many years recommended natural progesterone to help women both before and during pregnancy and now this new study has identified that pregnant women with a...
View ArticleBeing Pregnant Changes More Than Your Body
Those massive hormone surges are also affecting your brain too and any woman who has been pregnant sees the visible signs, but the invisible ones are there as well and could be being caused directly by...
View ArticleAntidepressants Two-Fold Risk To Babies In Pregnancy
Pregnancy is when women are meant to bloom, and many do as the levels of progesterone rise. However for women who already have a history of depression and are taking selective serotonin reuptake...
View ArticleThe Key Role of Progesterone in Fertility, Conception and Maintaining A...
For a pregnancy to occur the body needs a very specific sequence of events to take place, and all of them in the right order, so timing is a crucial factor. A healthy egg needs to meet healthy sperm,...
View ArticleBaby Blues Now Post Traumatic Stress Disorder?
People love labels, and the psychotherapist Eric Maisel in his book on depression recently questioned the prevalent practice in the USA of labeling everyday events as a ‘syndrome’ or ‘disorder’. He...
View ArticleTips To Help New Mothers Suffering From ‘Baby Wrist’
The time after pregnancy can be difficult for new mothers. The rollercoaster of hormone fluctuations do not help and have been linked to several problems post partum. Progesterone is normally high...
View ArticleAdvice On Preventing Miscarriages
Achieving a successful pregnancy is the first hurdle when starting a family, but sadly it is not always carried to full term. Officially a miscarriage is the loss of a pregnancy that happens sometime...
View ArticleHow To Help Back Pain During, and After, Pregnancy
This is something that most women just put up with, but they simply don’t have to. Progesterone can help with fertility, but once pregnant many women do experience back pain. If you are looking for a...
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