Blood Donations and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Men This study does not support the popular belief that iron overload may be a risk factor for heart disease in humans. The fact that women have lower rates of heart disease than men until they stop menstruating has been attributed to loss of iron during […]
Irregular Menstrual Cycles as a Marker for Risk of Diabetes Articles like this always seem a little surprising for me. The findings of this study are absolutely no surprise to anyone familiar with physiology. Hyperinsulinemia wreaks havoc on steroid hormones synthesis, typically leading to elevated testosterone at the expense of estrogen synthesis. So seeing a […]
Reproductive hormonal dynamics in the perimenopause This is an older article but one I had to throw in just to blow apart standard thinking. So many people (and physicians included0 believe that perimenopausal symptoms are a result of lack of estrogens. The treatment? More estrogen, of course (in the form of equine estrogens foreign to […]
Benefits of soy isoflavone regimen on menopausal symptoms While I’m sure none of you fell over in surprise at the finding of this article, the fact that this appears in Obstetrics and Gynecology is a shocker to me. I wouldn’t have expected anything in this journal on this topic for at least 2 more decades… […]
Menstrual Cycle Irregularity and Risk for Future CVD While this is not a big surprise if you understand physiology, the irony comes in with common medical management of menstrual problems. To my knowledge, I have come across two major treatment approaches: birth control pill and hysterectomy. While the first may seem a little more benign, […]
