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Documenting Ovulation with Quantitative Basal Temperature (QBT)

If our cycles are regular – about a month apart we assume we are ovulatory – meaning releasing an egg and making normal amounts of progesterone. However, ovulation is highly variable for all women. Progesterone raises our first morning (or basal) temperature a little bit. But so do many other things. Thus “basal body temperature”…
Perimenopause is a time of “Endogenous Ovarian Hyperstimulation”

“Perimenopausal endogenous ovarian hyper-stimulation” is the exact opposite of “The Myth of the Shriveling Ovary”: High estrogen levels during perimenopause, coupled with characteristically intermittent ovulation, can explain much of the misery of perimenopause. My hypothesis is based on the assumption that inhibin production decreases while there are still viable follicles (capable of producing both estrogen…
Preventive Powers of Ovulation and Progesterone

This series of articles, originally published in the CeMCOR newsletter, illustrate the importance of ovulation throughout women’s reproductive life. Scientific evidence shows that ovulation (and therefore an approporiate progesterone level) is necessary for the optimum development and functioning of several physiological systems in women’s bodies. The articles explain what ovulation is and address some of…
Very Heavy Menstrual Flow

When a period (meaning menstrual bleeding) is very heavy, or you are experiencing “flooding” or passing big clots you have what doctors call menorrhagia. We’ll skip the fancy term and just call it heavy flow. The purposes of this article are to define what is expected or “normal”, what we mean by very heavy menstrual flow,…
Ovarian Hormone Therapy for Women with Early Menopause

We hear a lot of things about hormone therapy (often wrongly called Hormone Replacement Therapy or HRT) (1). Most of the time when “HRT” is used it is referring to the treatment of women who had natural (not surgical) menopause at a normal age. Before about 1998 we believed that estrogen made everything better, but…
Estrogen’s Storm Season Book

**UPDATE** The 2017 Edition of Estrogen’s Storm Season is now available as an eBook (in both Amazon Kindle and ePUB formats)! Please see below for purchase details. For those who have purchased or received earlier paperback editions, we have created an insert with updates that relates to CeMCOR’s unique but evidence-based view of the phases…
Perimenopause: The Ovary’s Frustrating Grand Finale

Women in midlife increasingly hear the words “estrogen deficiency” spoken as the ultimate in bad news. Everyone knows that low estrogen levels cause heart disease, osteoporosis, Alzheimer’s and frigidity. But as Dr. Susan Love, the influential breast surgeon, feminist advocate and now deceased author of Dr. Susan Love’s Hormone Book asserts, “If estrogen deficiency’s a…

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Documenting Ovulation with Quantitative Basal Temperature (QBT)

Perimenopause is a time of “Endogenous Ovarian Hyperstimulation”

Preventive Powers of Ovulation and Progesterone

Very Heavy Menstrual Flow

Ovarian Hormone Therapy for Women with Early Menopause

Estrogen’s Storm Season Book

Perimenopause: The Ovary’s Frustrating Grand Finale