Growing Bolder Community

Dear Pharmacist, I took your column regarding hormone replacement to my doctor. He’s never ordered progesterone, just estrogen because of the hysterectomy. For eight years, I’ve suffered with occasional hot flashes, mood swings, insomnia, and I can’t lose weight. Anyway, three days later, his nurse called to say he did some research, and wanted to add bio-identical progesterone to my...

Dear Pharmacist,I am constantly fatigued, my hair is thinning, and I am gaining weight. My doctor says that I have hypothyroidism and prescribed Synthroid. Can you give me more information about thyroid medications and natural ways to help myself? --G.A. Albany, New YorkDear G.A., Approximately 12 million Americans have hypothyroidism. You are lucky if your major symptoms are fatigue, hair loss...

Dear Pharmacist,You mentioned “spirulina” in a recent column as a supplement to help boost thyroid hormone. I’ve never heard of this, is it a vitamin? What else is it good for? --T.E. Chicago, Illinois Dear T.E.,Spirulina is supercool, and it’s a superfood. It’s actually algae that grows in our oceans, springs and lakes. If you viewed it with a microscope you would see beautiful...

American women. It causes more than ten times the number of deaths than breast cancer does.Menopause symptoms are often confused with heart disease and menopause symptoms are generally widely known prom Dresses. Whether there's a link or not between menopause symptoms and heart disease is being researched but without any conclusive evidence to date.Menopause information abounds on the benefits...

WMKV 89.3 FM ON AIR AND WMKVFM.ORG ON THE INTERNET “LIFE AFTER 50” COL FOR 10-18-10 ON AIR -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HELLO AGAIN. THIS IS ALICE HORNBAKER FOR WMKV 89.3 FM BRINGING YOU ANOTHER “LIFE AFTER 50” COLUMN THAT IS HEARD, EXCLUSIVELY, ON WMKV 89.3 FM AND WMKVFM.ORG AROUND THE WORLD ON THE...