Complementary and Integrative Health and Menopause Snapshot can be a place to start if you are searching for evidence-based information about complementary and integrative health and menopause.
Menopause Symptoms
What is known about the use of complementary and integrative health to help ease the symptoms of menopause?
In Menopause: Diagnosis & Treatment – Treatment: Alternative Medicine, published 07 August 2024, the (United States) Mayo Clinic elaborate on:
“There are many alternative medicines that claim to help ease the symptoms of menopause. But few of them have been proved in studies. Some complementary and alternative treatments that have been or are being studied include:
- Plant estrogens, also called Phytoestrogens…
- Bioidentical hormones…
- Cognitive behavioural therapy…
- Black cohosh…
- Yoga…
- Acupuncture…
- Hypnosis…”.
Dietary Supplements
Are dietary supplements effective to help ease the symptoms of menopause?
In Menopause: Diagnosis & Treatment – Treatment: Alternative Medicine the Mayo Clinic also include:
“You may have heard of or tried other dietary supplements, such as red clover, kava, dong quai, DHEA, evening primrose oil and wild yam, a natural progesterone cream. There’s no scientific proof that they work. Some of these products may be harmful”.
Safe or Not
Are herbal therapies safe?
On page one in Complementary & Alternative Therapies: Non Hormonal Treatments for Menopause Symptoms, reviewed November 2023, the (British) Women’s Health Concern note:
“One of the powerful messages coming from the NICE Guideline is that herbal remedies which are not regulated by a medicine authority should not be considered safe for all, as there is much variety in their effectiveness and potency and that there may be significant side effects or interactions. The same warning is given for compounded bioidentical hormone therapy which is also not regulated or subject to the same quality control as conventional HRT”.
Health Care Provider
What if I choose to use complementary and integrative health?
The Mayo Clinic explain
“Talk with your healthcare professional before taking any herbal or dietary supplements for menopause symptoms. The FDA does not oversee herbal products. Some can be harmful or affect other medicines you take, putting your health at risk”.
What is the FDA?
FDA can be an abbreviation for the (United States) Food and Drug Administration.
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