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Thank you for your interest in the Natural Medicine approach to treating disease and healthy living! Caring Medical is currently a full time Prolotherapy doctor's office, headed by Ross Hauser, MD and we are blessed to fill the needs of patients seeking an alternative to surgery. We are accepting new patients and athletes suffering from chronic pain, sports injuries, and arthritis for treatment with Prolotherapy. Due to this large demand in Prolotherapy, we are not currently accepting new patients for natural medicine conditions, this includes autoimmune conditions, weight loss, menopause, hormones, or cancer. Through the years, we have seen so many lives turn around for the better with some of the methods discussed on this page, and encourage you to seek a Natural Medicine practitioner at www.acam.org.
Menopause refers to any of the changes a woman experiences either just before or after she stops menstruating, marking the end of her reproductive period. Although the average age at which American women cease having their periods is 52, some women will begin to experience menopausal symptoms as early as in their 40s or even 30s.
How does menopause develop?
The natural processes leading up to menopause begin very early during a woman's life. The pituitary gland, a small gland at the base of the brain, signals the production of several hormones, including estrogen and progesterone. These hormones cause the lining of the uterus to thicken and shed throughout the course of a menstrual cycle. During childhood, estrogen and progesterone levels gradually increase to a point that triggers the onset of a young woman's first menstrual cycle.
During the years before menopause, levels of progesterone typically decline, while estrogen levels remain stable or even increase, resulting in a low progesterone-to-estrogen ratio that is also referred to as “estrogen dominance.” Many of the early menopausal symptoms that women feel are due to this estrogen dominance. Menopause technically begins after a woman has not menstruated for 12 consecutive months.
What are the symptoms for menopause?
As women approach menopause, their menstrual periods become irregular. The periods become either closer together and/or further apart. Other common symptoms include achy joints, hot flashes, changes in sexual desire, inability to concentrate and recall things, extreme sweating, frequent urination, sleep disruption, vaginal dryness, mood changes, night sweats and conditions commonly associated with PMS. A woman may have one, some or none of these symptoms. Hormonal changes during menopause also contribute to osteoporosis.
Conventional medical treatments may help relieve the symptoms of menopause, but they do not address the root of the problem. By addressing the normal underlying hormonal physiology of menopause, as natural medicine treatments do, the symptoms associated with it may be alleviated permanently.
Discover why we believe that natural medicine treatments are the best way to treat menopause.
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