- Will Medicare cover all my menopausal tests and treatments? Medicare covers all investigations except bone density scans, and this may change in the near future. – Can premenopausal women increase their bone strength? The reason I ask is that my bone density is low, possibly due to a time many years ago when I [...]
Discussions on sex after menopause tend to focus on one aspect above all others — the physical changes to the vaginal lining, which becomes thinner, less acidic, and more easily damaged with age. A compelling argument against this focus, put forward by Germaine Greer in The Change, is that ‘it has been proved time and [...]
Recent UK research suggests that, although our health is generally better than that of women in centuries past, we seem to be more prone to osteoporosis than our female forebears. A team of researchers examining bones buried between 1729 and 1852 in the crypt of a London church found that the rate of bone deterioration [...]
You may be confused by the distinction made between the ‘natural’ and the ‘synthetic’ hormones of HRT. When your doctor describes a particular HRT hormone as natural, this means that it is broken down according to a normal biological pathway of the body. For this to occur, it must have the same structure as a [...]
It is unusual to experience aches in the muscles that are not the result of over-using the muscles, or of a viral infection such as influenza. However, they are a feature of post-viral syndrome or, if severe, they may indicate a disease known as polymyalgia rheumatica. Tension can produce muscle aches, especially in the neck, [...]
On examining the life-style of such people we can generally find the following basic characteristics. Their life is simple and they are moderate in their ways. They work, but do not go without time spent in rest and relaxation. They do not go short on sleep and know how to retire, in the proper sense [...]
Cancer specialists will tell you that cancer cells are cells that lack oxygen. Doctors specialising in rheumatism, arthritis, diabetes and similar diseases have also pointed to oxygen deficiency in their patients. We must therefore conclude that modern man may have money and all sorts of conveniences but he lacks oxygen. In fact, many diabetics would [...]
Chinese cooks prefer not to boil vegetables until they are soft; instead, they leave them about 20 per cent raw. In this condition they may taste somewhat bitter and so must be properly seasoned to make them more palatable. But the Chinese cooks know their job and prepare their food in such a way that [...]
Some time ago I received a letter with the following query: ‘The other day I read in a book on diet reform that preserved fruits and those bottled hot have no nutritional value. I have been wondering about this, because during the past year I have bottled a quantity of fruit, thinking it would have [...]
If fasting has improved your well-being, do not encourage a friend or neighbour who suffers from Graves’ disease (exophthalmic goitre) or tuberculosis to undertake the same treatment. Such a course would definitely be harmful because you cannot cure these two diseases by fasting. Be very careful, therefore, about recommending a fast to others. A long [...]