The Pros and Cons of Hormone Replacement Therapy for Early Menopause Symptoms
There’s been a lot of discussion in recent years over the issue of natural hormone replacement (HRT) and in particular the effects it has on the circulatory system of women.
Prior to undergoing the menopause, women have a much lower risk of developing cardiopathy than men of the same generation. If a woman were to have a heart attack under the age of fifty, on the other hand, they would be at greater risk of fatality than men. Nobody knows why this is.
We do know that those who still create estrogen in their ovaries have a substantilly lower danger of developing coronary artery disease, and thus in less danger of suffering a heart attack, compared to women of comparable age whose ovaries no longer function.
The estrogen produced in the ovaries would seem to decrease the risk of heart disease. It is very rare for a woman who hasn’t experienced the menopause to die of a heart attack. These are some of the reasons progesterone cream was developed, to help reduce these dangers of health issues during and after menopause.
The reason for this is that estrogen has an effect upon the muscles of the heart, improving heart function and allows it to function more efficiently. Research has also show that it can also have an important effect on the blood vessels around your body, and specialist estrogen receptors are found in the tissue surrounding blood vessels. Estrogen causes the tissue surrounding your blood vessels to loosen and thus keep the blood vessels flexible and dilated, and the blood pressure low. Estrogen is thus a essential ingredient in natural remedies for menopause, and is normally combined with similar herbs for menopause including black cohosh.
If your blood-estrogen level drops, the muscles surrounding the blood vessels narrow, raising blood pressure and reducing the flow of blood. Raised blood pressure can cause damage to your blood vessels – this damage most seriously affects the arteries, which are pivitol in transporting blood around your body. These damaged surfaces then cause fat to stick to them, this can cause major blockages to develop over time, eventually causing a heart attack or possibly even a stroke.
The mechanism by which hormones affect the circulatory system is presently not fully understood and is scientific research~an area in which scientists continue to work}
The Trouble With Cholesterol
We know that there are two different types of cholesterol circulating in our blood and that the low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, or LDL, is the most harmful one. Following menopause, the amount of bad cholesterol present in your blood rises and the amount of healthy cholesterol falls. Having high levels of bad cholesterol can cause atherosclerosis and hardening of the artery lining. However, the beneficial type of cholesterol actually protects against heart disease by removing LDL cholesterol from the system. Estrogen helps us to keep cholesterol at bay and create the proper ratio of LDL to HDL cholesterol.
Following the menopause, blood cholesterol levels tend to rise and so do insulin levels. Insulin is not only important for influencing blood sugar levels, but it also helps to control lipid metabolism.
One of of the major effects of estrogen is that it actually lowers insulin levels; when estrogen levels fall of the menopause}, insulin goes up, consequntially so will the posibility of you becoming diabetic – an additional risk to add to heart disease. Those treated with estrogen after menopause are not at as succeptible of developing diabetes.
Alternative Medicine Herbal Remedies : What Is Black Cohosh Root Used For?
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