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Menopause can be the worst of times or the best of times. Why not use this hormonal transition to empower yourself? Although still basking in the joys of perimenopause, on that occasional night I wake up over heated, the dream I just had is profound, sometimes a premonition, but always insightful. Menopausal women are some of my most insightful patients. Their hormonal swings serve to highlight life's lessons and those who receive the blessings of such a profound transition journey far on their soul path. I love how eloquently hormones color the canvas of our lives. These tiny biochemical messengers have the power to transform us.

One of my dearest patients shared her menopausal moments with me. Time spent tuning her system with transdermal bio-identical hormones highlighted the void in her life. She had shut down the creative energies in her root chakra by refusing to use her gifts--a talented artist who spent most of her life pursuing what she believed to be more stable means of making a living. My goal in providing hormonal support is to use the bio-identicals to "sing" with the patient until her glands remember the tune and can perform a'capello. In that light, I recommended that this patient begin taking the nutraceutical I developed to balance the hypothalamus (the maestro of the entire neuro-immune-endocrine system). Within months of adding Genesis Gold� to her regime, this repressed artist emerged from hibernation with her own well balanced hormones and creative works multiplying in her office. Today she has her own studio and is one of the most beautifully vibrant women in my practice.

Posted by at June 23, 2008 9:53 a.m.

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Posted by unregistered user at 7/29/08 10:24 p.m.

Please do not post my name or email; thanks! But my daughter has PCOD to the extreme, has had it since puberty and undiagnosed until adulthood! She'd gone as long as 5 years between menstrual periods during her life, finally managed to have a child and is more regular since, with harsh PMS and cramping, headaches; the PCOD worsens and surgery is not a fix for it. Her life is now at risk for diabetes, heart attack, stroke, you name it. She is further suffering all the physical detractions caused by this disease - thinning hair, obesity, skin tags, which has torn up her self esteem.

The cysts are massive and were highly visible during her caesarian delivery - her dr. commented on that, shocked by what she saw. I've heard there's a natural remedy available to stop the progression of PCOD and maybe even put it into remission. What do you know about this, and can she be healed now at 45? A physical healing would sure help her psyche to heal too.

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Posted by Deborah Maragopoulos at 8/2/08 5:52 p.m.

Dear Concerned Mother,

PolyCystic Ovary Disease is a complicated hormonal challenge. The ovarian cysts are signs of the condition but not the hormonal cause. The cardiovascular complications are related to insulin resistance which is in part due to an imbalanced estrogen to progesterone ratio that also leads to ovarian cyst formation. Hirsuitism (male like body hair) and male pattern baldness are indications of elevated androgens (DHEA and unbound testosterone).

I have treated PCOD with natural bioidentical progesterone to regulate menstrual cycles, aryvedic herbs to reduce insulin resistance, and Genesis Gold to balance the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian/adrenal miscommunication that is truly at the root of this condition.

Be Well,

Deborah Maragopoulos MN FNP
Intuitive Integrative Medicine
www.lovedance.com

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