Clinicians are facing “huge pressure” with soaring demand for menopause treatment, a leading expert said. It comes as the number of Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) items prescribed in England last year almost doubled before the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Paula Briggs, chair of the British Menopause Society (BMS) and sexual and reproductive health consultant at Liverpool Women’s…
Social Media Pressure Contributes to Increased Use of Hormone Replace Therapy: Expert Says
Women experience “a huge amount of pressure” from social media to seek medical treatment to manage menopausal symptoms, according to a leading expert. Dr. Paula Briggs, chair of the British Menopause Society (BMS) and sexual and reproductive health consultant at Liverpool Women’s Hospital, told The Epoch Times that while HRT is the “most logical and effective method to…
Tapping Into Your Vagus Nerve
Do you know which group of people studies and applies practices based on the intricacies of the nervous system? Athletes. Athletes, especially professional and elite athletes who are at the forefront in biohacking, are quite curious and knowledgeable about improving their vagal tone. Vagal tone refers to the activity of the vagus nerve. This nerve…
The Cash and Consequences of Hormone Therapies
Women approaching menopause today probably have no idea how stigmatized their natural aging used to be. In 1966, a bestselling book called “Feminine Forever,” written by Robert A. Wilson, a Wyeth-funded gynecologist, called post-menopausal women “flabby,” “shrunken,” “dull-minded,” and “desexed.” Ads for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in medical journals accused women of “outliving their ovaries”…
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