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Menopause by itself is not a Health Condition •Menopause is normal process that every woman goes through. •A healthy woman, when approaching Menopause does not experience menopausal symptoms. The transition should be smooth and easy.

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Understand what's going on in the body when a woman experiences menopause

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Page 1: Want to know more about Menopause?

Menopause by itself is not a Health Condition

•Menopause is normal process that every woman goes through.

•A healthy woman, when approaching Menopause does not experience menopausal symptoms. The transition should be smooth and easy.

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Yet more and more woman experience Menopause as …

• A serious health problem

•With a radical decrease of life quality

•With debilitating symptoms

•And a number of symptoms that persist even years after menopause

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Conditions that Increase in Risk with Perimenopause and Menopause

•Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke•Osteoporosis•Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease•Arthritis•Autoimmune Disease

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Bottom Line:

• There is a tremendous decline of body functions all of the sudden bombarding you

• Without proper treatment you are at risk for a number of very serious health conditions

• Treatments available are partial and not always effective

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Here is what will happen in terms of physical decline if the condition

is left alone::

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Health During A Woman’s Life

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Are you experiencing some of this?

• Hot flashes• Vaginal dryness• Changes in skin tone• Depression• Poor concentration

and memory• Irregular periods

• Hair loss and thinning• Pain and

inflammation• Weight gain• Decreased memory

and cognitive function• Dysglycemia

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Typical Management of Menopause

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Changes in pro-inflammatory activity after menopause

There is now a large body of evidence suggesting that the decline in ovarian

function with menopause is associated with spontaneous increases in pro-

inflammatory cytokines.

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• This means if you are in or after menopause and you are/were experiencing some or many of the typical menopause symptoms,

you are likely to have major chronic inflammatory processes going on in your body

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This is a huge factor for an increased rate of all those conditions in menopausal women:

•Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke•Osteoporosis•Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease•Arthritis•Autoimmune Disease

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Why do some women have a smoother process than others?

• When the female hormone production starts to fluctuate the adrenal system is supposed to take over.

• The adrenal gland produces a hormone (androstenedione) that gets converted to estrogen in the fatty tissues

• If the adrenal system is strong, it compensates the loss of estrogen and the transition is smooth

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What if the Adrenals are weak?

• There is no compensation for estrogen loss• this will lead to hormone fluctuations in the

body• all the typical symptoms will occur.

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And here they are:

• Hot flashes• Vaginal dryness• Changes in skin tone• Depression• Poor concentration

and memory• Irregular periods

• Hair loss and thinning• Pain and

inflammation• Weight gain• Decreased memory

and cognitive function• Dysglycemia

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In addition potentially devastating mechanisms are getting activated:

• There is a number of factors that cause systemic inflammation in Perimenopause

• Those factors potentiate each other and have devastating effects on cell aging and tissue breakdown

• Hormone replacement is not addressing those mechanisms since they stay active once triggered

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First Mechanism:

• If there is a decline in Estrogen levels (specifically estradiol) in female patients in perimenopause, the inflammatory cytokine system is up-regulated and may stay up-regulated EVEN AFTER ESTROGEN LEVELS ARE RESTORED.

• Depending on pre-existing inflamed areas in the body this up-regulation will determine which systems are most impacted by this process.

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Pre-exisitng Activity? What’s effected?

• Immune activation (which can lead to autoimmune diseases)

• Neuro-inflammation (which can lead to dementia, and many other neurological conditions)

• Free Radicals (increased cancer risk)• Higher stress response (individual loses ability

to cope with stress)• Body fat (produces inflammatory agents)

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Another Disturbing Mechanism

Ever wondered why you are so cranky or bitchy? It’s not your fault! Here is what happens:

• There is a part of the brain that is responsible for having all those overly emotional reactions. It’s called the Mesolimbic System.

• Guess what: that system get’s heavily activated by those processes!

• So you really just can’t help it! What needs to be fixed is the physical environment

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And there is more…

The immune reactions that are happening also cause:

• Tissue destruction (thus the bone loss)• Decreased blood flow (higher cardio vascular

risk)• Decreased synapses (that leads to brain fog,

neurological conditions etc)

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Here is the bad News

• None of those conditions can be successfully treated just with hormone replacement

• Once those things start happening in your body, they pretty much won’t stop by themselves

• Without help the body deteriorates and degenerates at an alarming rate

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And here is the good news:

• We actually have ways to help• We didn’t invent them, and they exist thanks to

amazing neurological and endocrinological research that has been done over the last years

• Sadly very few are practicing this particular kind of medicine so far

• It revolutionizes the way we are able to help in those conditions

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What’s so different?

• We work mostly with nutritional supplements and herbs, as well as life style changes and diet

• The supplements we use are high end and are way beyond what’s typically sold on the market

• The formulas we use are very fine tuned and especially aimed to your individual medical need

• We carefully monitor and manage the process • We use extremely thorough examinations to determine the

right course of supplementation on an individual basis• We take the liberty to switch supplements during the

process to ensure the right course of treatment

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What this does:

• We frequently achieve dramatic results between the first and third month of treatment

• We are able to stop destructive mechanisms in the body that have been on autopilot for many years

• We achieve higher and lasting life quality for our patients

• There are no signs of dependency with the products we use.

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• We use only natural products that are intended to restore health, not manipulate the body in unethical ways like for example some weight loss products do

• We do not use prescription drugs and pharmaceuticals

• Our products are of the highest quality and once balance in the body is restored, we discontinue treatment.

• Our goal is to get you out of our care as fast as possible

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We can help:

• Women who are approaching menopause and want a healthy process without symptoms. We prepare your body so you can have a smooth transition

• Women who are going through menopause• Woman after their menopause, who are still

experiencing symptoms and haven’t recovered fully and just feel like they haven’t been the same since they entered menopause