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I am a botanist. I got a Master degree on medicinal botany in China, and a Master degree on public health in USA. I think that Western medicine is good for acute diseases, and Eastern medicine is good for chronic disorders. Do you know that herbal medicines are not folk remedies but formal treatments in China? The Chinese pharmacopeia is the only one which collects herbal formulas in the world. Also, Chinese government health ... [More]

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Menopause - What is the Best Diet For Menopause?
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] As women approach menopause, they gradually pay more attention to health than to beauty. After menopause, women are likely lead to the development of osteoporosis, cancers, heart disease and other aging illnesses. Healthy diets reduce risks of diseases, fortify the body's defenses and enhance mechanisms of healing.

Menopause - Do You Know Night Sweats Are More Stubborn Than Hot Flashes?
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Hot flashes happen during day time. Night sweats appear to be the sleep-time equivalent of daytime flashes. They are the most obvious symptoms of menopause.

Menopause - Green Tea is Your Lifesaver During Menopause Treatment
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Do you have to take synthetic or bio-identical estrogen to mask menopause symptoms? Then you should know that the side effects, such as breast swelling and uterine bleeding, bother many menopause women daily who take estrogen.

Menopause - Green Tea is the Secret Healthy Weapon For Menopause
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] As women reach menopause, breast cancer, uterine cancer and ovarian cancer are threatening us. Moreover, in order to mask menopause symptoms, menopause women have to take synthetic or bio-identical estrogen, which is a strong carcinogen. Everyday, due to genetic and environmental factors, some cells out of the trillions in your body may turn cancerous spontaneously.

Menopause Warning - Synthetic and Bio-Identical Estrogens Fuel Cancers
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Your life is in your own hands. You can either fuel cancers by taking estrogen or inhibit cancers by taking cancer-protective diet.

Menopause - Milk is Not Good For Preventing Osteoporosis After Menopause
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] The famous "Got Milk?" advertising tries to convince everybody that milk is the nature's perfect food, which is vital for babies, essential for menopause women at risk of osteoporosis. A woman loses 5 percent of her bone mass per year in the first five years after menopause, and this loss tends to slow down afterward.

Menopause Warning - Synthetic and Bio-Identical Hormones Pollute Your Body
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] As the green trend goes on, people know that the earth can not be polluted any more, as we only have one earth. However, few people realize that you can not pollute your body by chemical medicines, as you only have one body, too.

Menopause is Good For You - For Longevity
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Nowadays, women think menopause is related to hot flashes, insomnia and many other menopausal symptoms. Menopause is so feared and dreaded that most women do not want to talk about it.

Menopause Warning - Bio-Identical Hormone is a Carcinogen Too!
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] It is a fiction not a fact that bio-identical hormones are safe. In fact, they have the same risks as synthetic hormones.

What Causes Menopause - Your Doctor is Wrong!
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Conventional medicine has defined that menopause as a disease of "estrogen deficiency." Just as a diabetic should be treated with insulin, an estrogen-deficient woman should be treated with estrogen. So your doctor solves your menopause problem by adding synthetic or bio-identical hormones to your body.

Menopause Warning - Estrogen is a Carcinogen!
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Hormone replacement is dangerous and even fatal. Since the main function of estrogen is to promote cell division, particularly in hormone-sensitive tissues, such as breasts and uterus.

The Best Menopause Solution - Solve Menopause Problem in 6 Months
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Only cool herbs sails you through the whole menopause transition in 6 months, while hormones need several years. Because cool herbs are for problems, hormones are for symptoms only.

How to Reduce Allergies For Your Children
[Health-and-Fitness:Allergies] Most allergies are caused by lifestyles. External and internal factors both contribute to the problem.

Health - Do Not Blindly Trust Prescription Medicines
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] Since the late 19th century, doctors and patients have taken one-pill-fit-all model for grant. Many patients blindly trust their doctors and swallow all prescription medicines. Unfortunately, drug side effect is a leading cause of death today. There is a saying that a great doctor kills more people than a great general.

Infertility - Low Sperm Count is Increasing
[Health-and-Fitness:Mens-Issues] One of the most frustrating things in life is infertility. When couples discover they are infertile, the first thing they think is that it is woman's problem. In fact, man's problems count for half of the cases.

Breast Cancer - Its Main Culprit is Hormones
[Cancer:Breast-Cancer] Nowadays, women are scared of breast cancer, since about 212,000 women were diagnosed with it in the USA in 2005. Pink ribbon is a women's movement to find a cure for it.

Marriage - How to Strengthen Your Marriage Through Arguments
[Relationships:Marriage] Money, sex, parenting and household responsibilities are topics that couples argue about most often. But it's not what you argue about, but how you go about it that can strengthen or weaken a marriage.

Menopause - Hot Flashes Linked With High Blood Pressure?
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] What causes hot flashes is still a mystery. On April 24, 2006, Newsweek reported that researchers have studied the physiology of hot flashes for more than 30 years but still don't know exactly how or why they occur.

How to Find the Best Treatment For Menopause - Feeling is The Truth
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Menopause treatment is a big confusing issue today. Since most doctors only tell the information about hormone treatments, menopause women have to make the decision by themselves.

Got Infections? Think Twice Before You Take Antibiotics
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] The discovery of antibiotics was the greatest medical success in 20th century. However, the 21st century will be the end of the antibiotic era. Use herbal medicines as the first choice, and keep chemical medicines as the last resort.

Menopause - Don't Take Artificial Sweeteners For Midlife Weight Control
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] As women approach menopause, it is natural to gain weight. You can notice the belly area accumulates more fat; so many menopause women try their best to find sweeteners with fewer calories.

Menopause - Stimulating 350 Sites by Estrogens Makes Bio-identical Hormones Dangerous For Menopause
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Hot summer makes hot flashes unbearable. Newsweek discussed menopause again this month. Oprah Winfrey and Suzanne Somers claim that bio-identical hormones are safe and effective for menopause symptoms.

Allergy - Honey Can Cure Your Pollen Allergies For Good!
[Health-and-Fitness:Allergies] Every year, new allergy medicines are on the market with more hour relief for allergy symptoms. Of course, they will give you stronger side effects. Moreover, all over-the-counter and prescription medicines for allergies are for masking symptoms only without addressing the root cause, so you need them every season.

Menopause - Why Western Medicine Has Limitations to Treat Menopause
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Since 2002, the Women Health Initiative has concluded that risks outweigh benefits from hormone therapy for menopause. Over so many years, experts are still arguing about the shortest duration and the lowest doses without knowing that hormone therapy for menopause is a dead end. Western medicine is based on a one-to-one model: shoot one disease target by one chemical drug, which works great for acute diseases but not for chronic disorders.

Menopause - It is Misleading That Taking Hormones For Short Term Menopause Treatment is Safe
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Taking hormone therapy increases breast density and making it harder to spot breast lumps. It is that screening is not as effective in picking up tumors.

Menopause - Hormone Treatments Might Shrink Brains and Damage Memory After Menopause
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Surprisingly, there is one more piece of bad news from hormone treatments for menopause this week. A study found that, women taking hormones for menopause treatment had smaller frontal brain lobes than women who did not use hormones. The shrinkage in both the hippocampus and frontal lobe regions of the brain will damage both memory and cognitive functions.

Menopause - The Secret Way to Prevent Post Menopause Osteoporosis
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Menopause women haven't realized an inconvenient true: Women take more calcium supplements and Vitamin D fortified milk than ever before, yet women's bone mass is weaker instead of stronger. Every year, over a million osteoporosis-related bone fractures occur in USA. However, experts warned women too much about the danger of exposure to the sun for skin cancer and skin aging.

Menopause - The Secret Way to Lose Weight Forever For Menopausal Women
[Health-and-Fitness:Weight-Loss] To eat less is the best way to lose weight. I have some psychological tricks which can fool your hunger feeling.

Menopause - The Secret Way to Anti-aging For Menopausal Women
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] As menopause approaches, women start to worry about aging. We know no drug can reverse aging. However, a good lifestyle indeed can slow down the aging process.

Menopause - Synthetic Or Bio-Identical Hormones For Menopause
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] What is the best hormone for menopause treatment: synthetic or bio-identical hormones? You may choose bio-identical hormones, but you may be wrong. Although body-made estrogens are the best estrogen for menopause, they are totally ignored by medical science.

Menopause - Should Or Shouldn't You Treat Menopause Symptoms?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Many questions puzzle menopausal women as they approach menopause. The first question is should or shouldn't you treat your menopause? One of my friends suffered 10 hot flashes a day, and she refused hormone treatment.

What is the Best Treatment For Your Menopause - Ask Your Breasts
[Womens-Interests:Menopause-HRT] Menopause treatment is still a controversial topic today. Many menopause women will not ask their doctors anymore, yet they ask their friends to find the best treatment for menopause. Nobody knows the answer except yourself, since everybody is different.

Modern Medicine Has a Wrong Assumption - The Human Body is a Machine
[Health-and-Fitness:Medicine] The modern medical practice is warfare on human body based on the assumption that human body is a machine. Over last two hundred years, medical practice follows a war model: Find the enemy and destroy it.

Hormone Replacement Therapy For Menopause - Its History and Future
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Hormone replacement therapy is to treat body's hormone problems by adding synthetic hormones. I traced its history here. Everybody is welcome to discuss its future.

Menopause - It is Sure That HRT Drugs Double Breast Cancer Risk After Menopause
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Recently, a new study reveals that hormone replacement therapy drugs for menopause double the risk of breast cancer. A new good is that quitting the use of HRT drugs causes the increased risk of breast cancer to reduce. I think enough is enough: no more argument about the HRT drugs for menopause.

Nutrition - Food Diversity is the Secret Key For Good Nutrition
[Health-and-Fitness:Nutrition] You are what you eat. Diet cures more than doctors do. American consumers, especially women have been bombarded with to a lot of scientific advice.

Menopause - Do Not Miss the Critical 5 Years For Bone Health During Menopause
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Your doctor may tell you that you need to think about bone health after age 65. In fact, bone problems will show out by age 65 which is too late to reverse bone loss. In 2001, a study published at Bone reported that when menstrual period end, bone loss dramatically speeds up during the first 5 years.

Alzheimer's Disease - Why the Clinical Trial Didn't Show Ginkgo Biloba's Effects On Dementia
[Health-and-Fitness:Mental-Health] Ginkgo biloba does not prevent dementia on very old people, since their brain cells are already dead. However, herbs do prevent Alzheimer's disease at early ages.

Herbs Are Like Organic Fertilizers to the Human Body
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] The human body is a complex ecosystem. Doctors should not over-load the human systems with chemicals drugs as farmers do to our soil. We should learn a lesson from the use of artificial fertilizers in agriculture.

Menopause - Seaweed is a Secret Health Food For Menopause
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Women need calcium for good bone health. The successful "got milk?" ad convinces us that calcium is only in milk...

The Health System is a Sick System - Over 100,000 Americans Are Killed by Drug's Adverse Reactions
[Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Are you shocked by these numbers I found in a magazine and a book? "Each year 2.2 million Americans suffer adverse reactions to prescription drugs.

Menopause - Milk is Not a Healthy Food For Your Menopause
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Menopause women have been brainwashed to believe calcium is only in milk. So in order to keep your bone health, you think you have to get milk every day. I read an old book recently.

Menopause - How to Wash Away Depression With Tears During Menopause
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Menopause women may cry for no reason, although babies cry for good reasons. A small sad situation can make menopause women's tears fall, so many menopause women avoid gloomy movies and books. It is said that dropping estrogen levels cause mood swings, irritability and the blues during menopause.

Menopause - How to Wash Away Depression by Sweats During Menopause
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] No matter menopause causes depression or personality changes cause depression, menopause women suffer more depression than others. It is said that dropping estrogen levels cause mood swings, irritability and the blues during menopause. Mental health experts have long found exercise help combat depression.

Menopause - Why You Should Quit Soda Drinks at Menopause
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Menopause women should know the corrosive effects of soft drinks. Since menopause, your bones can not afford the damage caused by soda drinks. Moreover, soda and other sugar-sweetened drinks have become the largest source of calories in the American diet.

Menopause - Do You Know the Cumulative Effects of Estrogen After Menopause?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Today's menopause women have been exposed to one form of estrogen after another since your youth. Estrogen is like a doll and pharmaceutical companies put her in many dresses: DES, birth control pills, synthetic estrogen and bio-identical estrogen. Decades ago, DES, a synthetic estrogen, was used in an attempt to prevent miscarriage; some hospitals routinely gave new mothers shots of DES to suppress their milk supply often without telling women what they were taking; and DES was used as a "morning-after pill" intended to prevent pregnancy after unprotected sex.

Menopause - Do Menopausal Women Really Need to Do Mammograms Every Year?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] As women approach menopause, breast cancer is the greatest fear that they face. In order to prevent breast cancer, most menopausal women take mammograms every year, as their doctors recommend. Following are facts you should know before you do your next mammogram.

Menopause - How to Avoid a Hysterectomy Hoax During Menopause
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] For many menopause women, the first sign of approaching menopause is the change in the menstrual cycle. Many doctors may not know that heavy, irregular bleeding simply reflect hormonal instability in women peri- menopause. A doctor once gave a speech: "After the last planned pregnancy, the uterus becomes a useless, symptom-producing, potentially cancer-bearing organ and therefore should be removed.

Menopause - Why Neither Synthetic Nor Bio-Identical Hormones Meet the Dynamic Hormone Needs
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] During menopause, although the hormonal fluctuations are gradually reducing, the production of hormones is still a dynamic process, which is constantly responding to changing body needs. Hormones are action messengers for an interrelated, ever-changing network of organ-system commands. So, they must be continually produced for moment-to-moment situational needs.

Menopause - Do You Know Menopause is an Intelligent Design For Longevity?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Many menopause women think menopause is a design error of Mother Nature. If you understand that the shedding of leaves in autumn is a protective mechanism for the coming winter, you can understand menopause is a smart design for longevity. Menopause is a physiologic phenomenon that is protective from the undesirable reproduction and the associated growth stimuli.

Menopause - Do You Know These Truths About Hot Flashes?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] In truth, women are estrogen dominant instead of estrogen deficient in Western populations. Hot flashes are not caused by estrogen deficiency; so far, we do not know what causes hot flashes.

Menopause - Do You Know These Myths About Hot Flashes?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Hot flashes are not caused by estrogen deficiency. Besides estrogen, cool herbs can reduce hot flashes in 1 month without even a breast swelling side effect.

Menopause - How to View Menopause to Be As Beautiful As Autumn
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] What is your favorite season? Is it spring for the flowers? Summer for the breezy nights?

Menopause - Are Menopause Symptoms Really Caused by Estrogen Deficiency?
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Before the 2002 Women's Health Initiative study, most doctors attempted to push synthetic estrogens into all menopause women, because the current assumption was that menopause is an estrogen deficiency disease. Menopause women are bombarded with this concept in pharmaceutical estrogen ads, mainstream media and their doctors.

Menopause - How Marriages Survive This Midlife Crisis
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] The most valuable of arts is the art of living. From the beginning to the end, marriage is an art with ups and downs.

Menopause - Why Neither Synthetic Nor Bio-Identical Hormones Are Safe For Menopause Treatments
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Both synthetic and bio-identical hormones are carcinogenic. Menopause women should avoid all hormones for menopause treatment.

Menopause - Temporary Solutions Or Lasting Benefits For Your Menopause Symptoms
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Hormone treatments are temporary solutions for your menopause. Lifestyle approaches and alternative approaches will have lasting benefits for your menopause symptoms.

A Time-Tested Approach For Menopause
[Health-and-Fitness:Womens-Issues] Why do you get hot flashes but others do not? The body has a built-in mechanism that produces all hormones needed throughout lifetime, so some women can go through menopause smoothly. However, you get hot flashes during menopause as your built-in mechanism lies idle inside your body.