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Case study

A 51-year-old woman came to see me with menopausal symptoms. Since then, she had suffered frequent migraine attacks with nausea and vomiting, and leg cramps; her contact lenses had begun to hurt her eyes.

As a schoolgirl, she had tested allergic to ‘horse dander’. Ten months before coming to me, her GP had put her on HRT using horse-derived oestrogens. I ordered a blood test, which confirmed her extreme sensitivity to equine products.

Once she’d stopped the HRT, her symptoms vanished, but eventually returned. I then prescribed phytoestrogens and a herbal tincture to stimulate progesterone production. This has now done the trick.

WDDTY Blog Speak

Menopausal symptoms - Q My life is being made hell by hot flushes and night sweats. I am 50 years old and reluctant to take HRT. And now all the herbs have been discredited...

Menopausal symptoms - More plant remedies for the menopause - * Gamma-oryzanol. This naturally occurring mixture of the plant chemicals sterols and ferulic acid esters has proved effective for reducing menopausal...

Alternative treatments of menopausal symptoms - Several doctors have reported success in treating the menopause without drugs. Nutritional medicine experts Drs Stephen Davies and Alan Stewart recom...

Getting rid of menopausal symptoms naturally - Eat a variety of foods and increase your intake of plant foods. This increases the number of different phytochemicals you ingest and decreases the lik...

Phytoestrogens - Hormone heaven or hormone havoc? - Touted as the 'natural cure' for menopause, the high dose plant supplements may have strong oestrogenic effects on the body, with all the dangers of l...

Are phytoestrogens the same as progesterone? - If I understand it (WDDTY, vol 11 no 5) correctly, phytoestrogens can be as ill advised as HRT. What I am uncertain about are saponins, from which pro...

Nausea and vomiting - It's probably surprising to learn that nausea and vomiting in all its varieties from migraines and hangovers to the after effects of anaesthetics all...

Doctors get hrt stroke benefit wrong. - Besides offering hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as a quick-fix solution for menopausal symptoms such as hot flushes, mood swings and weight gain, m...

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