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Healthy Living/Women's Health Issues
Research appearing in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (February 2009, 15(2): 129-132) compared the effect of ginger, mefenamic acid and ibuprofen on the pain of dysmenorrheal. The subjects of the study were 150 students over...
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Healthy Living/Women's Health Issues
A number of studies have shown natural therapies to be effective for women suffering with dysmenorrheal. Research appearing in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (February 2009, 15(2): 129-132) compared the effect of ginger,...
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Healthy Living/Women's Health Issues
Lignans are phytoestrogens with antioxidant activity. Lignans are from the cell walls of plants and are found in a variety of foods, including flax seeds, soybeans, whole grain cereals, rye, broccoli, pumpkin seed and some berries. A recent...
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Healthy Living/Women's Health Issues
Hesperidin is a bioflavonoid that is found in citrus fruit. It offers similar nutritional support to other bioflavonoids, like quercetin. It acts to support the vascular system by strengthening the capillaries and it also acts as an antioxidant. In...
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Healthy Living/Women's Health Issues
According to a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine (1999;341:549-555, 601-602), if a woman is pregnant and has an underactive thyroid, the IQ of the child may be adversely affected. Children between the ages of seven and nine,...
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Healthy Living/Women's Health Issues
A double-blind, placebo-controlled study appearing in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology (2005; 105(5 Pt 1): 1074-83) looked at the effect black cohosh had on menopausal symptoms in 304 women. The women were given either a standardized extract of...
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Healthy Living/Women's Health Issues
A study appearing in Toxicology Science [2001; 59(1):147-59] demonstrated that animals with elevated serum levels of dioxin and chemicals similar to dioxin had a high prevalence of endometriosis, and the severity of disease correlated with the serum...
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Healthy Living/Women's Health Issues
Taking antidepressants can create sexual dysfunction. A study appearing in the Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy (April-June 1998;24(2):139-143) looked at ginkgo biloba extract as a way to help these patients. The study was an open trial that...
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