Symptoms / Experience Changes

Ovulatory Disturbances: They Do Matter

For the woman who isn’t trying to get pregnant, does it matter if an ovulatory pattern is normal? Recent studies indicate that it does. One study showed that women with only one nonovulatory cycle a year lost an average of 4% of their spinal bone. Strong evidence suggests that lack of cyclic normal progesterone is…
Progesterone Therapy for Menopause

“Bio-identical” is the trendy term for therapies we’ve used for a long time. Bio-identical therapies include Prometrium ® , Estrace ® , Estradot ® , Androgel ® , Climara ® and Estragel ® to list a few examples. It simply means hormonal therapies that are identical to ones that the human body makes. The purpose…
The ABCs of Osteoporosis Treatment

There are many practical ways you and your health care provider can treat osteoporosis (weak bones). Prevention is about more than drugs! Your life and health matter. Below are ways you can prevent fragility fractures, broken bones occurring with a fall from standing or lesser amount of force. “A” Is For “Active” Bones are strengthened…
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…
Estrogen Deficiency: The Wrong Idea About Menopause

The largest and best-controlled trial testing whether hormone “replacement” therapy prevented heart disease was stopped three years early in July 2002. The Women’s Heath Initiative (WHI) study included over 16,600 healthy menopausal women without symptoms. These women were randomized to daily conjugated equine estrogen (Premarin, 0.625 mg) plus medroxyprogesterone (Provera, 2.5 mg) or an identical…
Daily Menopause Diary©

CeMCOR’s Daily Menopause Diary© is meant for women who have gone at least 12 months without a menstrual period. The Diary is available in both print and digital formats, with instructions provided. You will need the free Adobe Acrobat Reader to read and print the PDF of the Diary with instructions. We have also developed…
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…
Help for Anovulatory Androgen Excess (AAE)—Challenge PCOS!

Dr. Jerilynn Prior is a Professor and physician at the University of British Columbia and Celeste Wincapaw is a Vancouver woman and member of the Community Advisory Council for the Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research. Because Celeste is interested for personal reasons and has questions about “polycystic ovary syndrome” (also called PCOS but…