Is HRT Essential
By Rachel |
This is a great article from Dr. Elizabeth Thompson • CEO and Founder of NCIM – National Centre for Integrative Medicine that she published on LinkedIn a few weeks ago. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/dr-elizabeth-thompson-ncim_managing-the-menopause-remains-a-hot-topic-activity-7401587191857979392-T3R2?utm_medium=ios_app&rcm=ACoAAAx-nGcBDrq4Fwu2JN7wOsCJx6XtH-InSeo&utm_source=social_share_send&utm_campaign=mail
Women spend £1800 a year combating menopause symptoms!
By Rachel |
That’s a lot of money! 76% are buying vitamins and minerals, 52% supplement and 40% paid for hormonal support. This is from a poll by Clearpay. Skincare products, treatments and smart watches top the list of expensive items with supplements, vitamins and minerals next and lastly hormone support. Menopause is a natural process that most…
Podcast about Homeopathy
By Rachel |
This is a link to a podcast about homeopathy I did recently with Maria Le Masurier. She has a series of podcast on Spotify covering various subjects relating health and lifestyle. Have a listen!
Patronising, unhelpful menopause exploitation!
By Rachel |
Many column inches are being printed about the menopause exploitation just now. Social media discussions are ongoing and television is wading in too with celebrity led programming. This is a natural stage of every woman’s life. Like puberty it is an unavoidable biological process. We should learn about it in school and prepare for it…
Menopause Anxiety
By Rachel |
I was interested to listen to Jeremy Vines BBC2 show today 18/10/23 whilst driving to my clinic. They were discussing women who had experienced irrational anxiety about driving during menopause. In some instances women had given up driving altogether! The solution to this, as ever, was HRT in various guises. Homeopathy can help with exactly…
HRT abuse and mis-use.
By Rachel |
There have been a couple of newspaper articles recently, links below, that highlight the vulnerability of women to the mis-use and abuse of HRT during peri-menopause and menopause. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/19/private-menopause-clinics-prescribing-hrt-twice-recommended/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/12/28/long-covid-may-actually-onset-menopause-women-say-experts/ HRT has become the “go to” drug of choice to cover every symptom of menopause, rather like anti-biotics were for every type of infection. That…
Do Menopausal Women Need to be Prescribed HRT?
By Rachel |
Recently the press has been full of alarmist stories about the lack of prescribed HRT “Menopausal Women refused HRT By GPs as shortages of drug get worse” DT 27.4.22 Even though there are approximately 13 million perimenopausal or menopausal women in the UK, almost half – a staggering 41% of medical schools do not have…
What is homeopathic susceptibility?
By Rachel |
So before Christmas I caught Omicron. As a practitioner it is always interesting to experience symptoms your own patients are be dealing with. This adds to my insight and knowledge. Reflecting on why I caught Omicron is good way of sharing with you the principles of homeopathic susceptibility. In homeopathy we understand that “susceptibility” plays a…