Hälsosam mat för en frisk hjärna

by Mia Lundin on January 27, 2012

Visste du att din hjärna står för bara ca två procent av din totala kroppsvikt? Ändå använder den över 20% av all din energi! Din hjärna konsumerar hälften av det blodsocker som cirkulerar i ditt blodomlopp. Den använder 25% av din kropps näringsämnen och 20% av det syre du andas in. Ändå, och med tanke [...]

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Hypotyreos – Vad är det och vad kan du göra åt det?

by Mia Lundin on January 22, 2012

Hypotyreos, eller underaktiv sköldkörtel, har blivit nästintill en epidemi i vår moderna västerländska kultur med över 59 miljoner drabbade individer. Många kvinnor, speciellt i klimakteriet och efter, lider av hypotyreos. Trots det blir de ofta feldiagnosticerade. Detta beror på att många läkare, även endokrinologer, i allmänhet bara förlitar sig på ett enda test för att [...]

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Timing of HT found key to its risks and benefits

by Mia Lundin on January 6, 2012

by Doug Brunk FROM THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE ENDOCRINE SOCIETY SAN DIEGO — The scale that weighs risks and benefits tips more favorably for newly menopausal women who begin hormone therapy at age 50-59 years and who use it for 5 years, compared with women who start the therapy in their 60s, according to [...]

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Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease With HRT

by Mia Lundin on January 6, 2012

Kate Maclaran; John C Stevenson Authors and Disclosures Posted: 01/03/2012; Women’s Health. 2012;8(1):63-74. © 2012 Future Medicine Ltd. Abstract Prevention of cardiovascular disease has increasingly important health implications as our population ages. Menopause is associated with the development of cardiovascular risk factors and there are many plausible biological mechanisms through which estrogen may confer cardiovascular protection. Despite a wealth [...]

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Estrogen Alone Is Effective for Reducing Breast Cancer Risk, Study Finds

by Mia Lundin on January 6, 2012

ScienceDaily (Dec. 9, 2010) While endogenous estrogen (i.e., estrogen produced by ovaries and by other tissues) does have a well-known carcinogenic impact, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) utilizing estrogen alone (the exogenous estrogen) provides a protective effect in reducing breast cancer risk, according to study results presented at the 33rd Annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer [...]

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HRT and breast cancer risk: a realistic perspective

by Mia Lundin on January 6, 2012

December 2011, Vol. 14, No. 6 , Pages 633-636 (doi:10.3109/13697137.2011.590618) Read More: http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.3109/13697137.2011.590618 J. C. Stevenson, H. N. Hodis*, J. H. Pickar† and R. A. Lobo† National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London, Royal Brompton Hospital, London , UK *Atherosclerosis Research Unit, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA , [...]

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