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Managing Your Menopause Type® Educational
Class
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Session Three - Your Risks of Disease
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Your Risks
of Disease
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Understanding
how to determine your risks for developing osteoporosis, heart disease, diabetes,
cancer or other age related diseases is an important step in lowering your
risks.
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It's
important to realize that these diseases are all considered "silent
diseases" - meaning they do not have strong symptoms to warn you they
are developing. Each of them can "silently" develop, and only
become evident after the damage has taken place. Osteoporosis may first show
up as a fractured hip. Heart disease may first show up as a heart attack.
Diabetes or cancer may not have symptoms until they are in an advanced stage
of disease.
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Now for the good news.
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Each of
these diseases can be detected early - in most cases long before they cause
major damage or death. Many of these conditions can also be prevented by lifestyle,
dietary and nutrition choices. Once you know how your risks for each of these
diseases can be tested for, you will have greater control over your health
and life.
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The
information you learn from this session will guide you in choosing therapies
that are unique to your individual needs, based on your risks.
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This Session
cannot cover every possible disease, so it will focus on the diseases that
are most common to women as they age. In addition to the tests discussed in
this educational class, you are advised to have a regular medical checkup,
and to see your physician about any health concerns you have.
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The risks for disease that we will
cover first include:
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Osteoporosis (and tooth loss)
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Cardiovascular Disease (Heart Disease
and Stroke)
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Cancer Risks (breast, colon, lung & reproductive)
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Next we will discuss the postmenopausal
risks for insulin resistance and diabetes.
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Then we will
discuss hormonal imbalances. You
will learn how to understand hormone tests, how those tests are analyzed
based upon their relationship to each other, and how hormones are metabolized
and eliminated from the body.
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Since abnormal hormone levels may be associated
with each of these conditions, as well as some forms of depression and dementia, we will also discuss how hormone testing
can tell you about other risks for diseases. The discussion of hormone tests
will include information on the three common methods of testing hormones - serum (blood), saliva & urine.
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What this means to you
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Once you
understand how to determine your risks for disease, and how to make choices
to decrease those risks, you will better equipped to manage your health and
quality of life.
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What's
Next?
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Learn how to
determine your risk for osteoporosis, and what you can do to prevent and even
reverse this debilitating disease.
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The Managing Your Menopause Type® Educational Class
is provided to the public without charge. This information is provided for
education purposes only, and is not intended to prescribe treatment. Consult
a physician, pharmacist or other healthcare professional regarding the
applicability of any opinions or recommendations with respect to your
symptoms or medical condition.
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