Menopause Treatments
Until 50 years ago, the medical community had no tools with which to fight menopause and perimenopause symptoms. Clinical research eventually hit upon the idea of extracting hormones from female horse urine. Though not biologically similar, these estrogens were directly injected into human test subjects in an effort to replace reduced estrogen levels in pre and postmenopausal women.
This practice went on unabated for the next thirty years until the most comprehensive clinical trials of its kind were conducted on hundreds of thousands of perimenopausal and menopausal women (using HRT) for what was originally conceived as a five-year time period.
The entire study was interrupted and concluded in just three years due to the fact that HRT was causing a severe spike in the number of test subjects succumbing to heart disease and cancer.
Though the evidence is conclusive and irrefutable, the medical community still advocates HRT, though for a protracted time period.
Since that time, “bioidenticals” have come into vogue, though no conclusive scientific evidence exists as to their safety and efficacy.
Mistrustful of the medical community and the large pharmaceuticals that push the drugs that they advocate, many women search for safe and effective alternatives to these treatment plans.
When funds exist, free thinking (not for profit) research centers like the Mayo Clinic in St Paul, Minnesota) have begun to test all natural plant derived alternatives to HRT and bioidenticals.
A 2007 Mayo Clinic trial found that the phytoestrogens contained in flax hull lignans significantly reduced the number and intensity of hot flashes, night sweats, and other common menopause symptoms.
Additional research has indicated that concentrated flax hull lignans can be as effective as HRT in eliminating hot flashes, while remaining entirely safe, even with prolonged use.
FemFlax® is an all-natural flax hull based supplement and offers the full-spectrum bioavailability of 27 flax hull lignans. Concentrated, FemFlax is ten times as potent as the dose administered to the Mayo Clinic test group, and without side effects.
