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women enter menopause and experience the lack of estrogen, their numbers catch up to the men very quickly.” Replacing hormones
With all of these ominous changes facing women, what can they do to maintain good health? The usual advice of a good diet, regular exercise, and not smoking become even more important, due to the increased risk of heart disease.
Watching cholesterol can help a woman counteract some of the risk; however, the most widely used treatment to relieve the problems associated with menopause is hormone replacement therapy, or HRT.
When taken regularly, HRT provides women with estrogen levels similar to those produced naturally before menopause. The medication also includes progestine, a synthetic version of the hormone progesterone.
Many recent studies have focused on the connection between estrogen therapy and breast cancer, but Dr. Tom
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