Thursday, May 1, 2008

Health Trends: What is Environmental Endocrinology and Menopause Medicine?

Health Trends: What is Environmental Endocrinology and Menopause Medicine?
Today, doctors are learning how environmental
endocrinology'the effect of daily stressors like light,
food and crowding on multiple endocrine systems'controls
rate of aging and quality of life. Many aspects of
diabetology and reproductive endocrinology are converging
to become what we call menopause medicine. This elite group
of forward-thinking physicians and researchers from all
over the world are trying to put the scientific method back
into medicine.

Medical practitioners can now participate in an intensive
introduction to the newest emerging specialty of
endocrinology by attending "Two Days Back on Earth," a CME
course on environmental endocrinology, covering how
stressors on multiple endocrine systems control the rate of
aging and quality of life to be held at the GCC
Planetarium, Glendale California. Also known as Darwinian
Medicine, environmental endocrinology covers the use of
hormones, particularly in menopausal women.

The two day CME accredited seminar is attended by
physicians worldwide and provides a maximum 17 credit hours
in category 1PRA.

Today, doctors are being educated about bio-mimetic hormone
restoration therapy (BHRT), currently termed bio-identical
hormone replacement therapy. They are learning about the
following: Insulin and cortisol metabolism over the course
of a lifetime; The interplay of insulin, SHBG and estrogen;
The effect of declining quality of sleep on sex steroid
production and use; The seasonal variation in hormone
fluctuation through shunt physiology; The action of sex
steroids on immunological, emotional and neurological
disorders; How to use and adjust the Wiley Protocol to
solve the common side effects of menopause hot flashes,
migraines, joint pain, incontinence, hemorrhaging,
endometriosis, hypo and hyperthyroidism, fibroids, PCOD,
insomnia, acid reflux, gall bladder disease, thinning skin,
vulvodynia, low libido, IBS, anxiety and depression; The
connection of insulin and sex hormones to cancer;
C-Reactive protein, immunological cardiovascular risk;
Non-genomic actions of steroid hormones in reproductive
tissues; and complex actions of sex steroids in adipose
tissue, the cardiovascular system and brain.

"Since I took this course I have become more keenly aware
of the nuances of hormonal interaction. The certification
course really helps you understand the molecular aspects of
hormonal relationships. The knowledge acquired
significantly assists me in management of patients and I am
constantly amazed at the level of interaction achieved on
the protocol, "said Courtney Ridley M.D., a Houston-based
physician who not only attended the course, but now helps
teach. "It answers the questions being posed regarding
cancer and other dysfunction afflicting not only menopausal
women but those women with significant alteration of cycle
created by interaction with our estrogen toxic environment."


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Writer Kristin Gabriel works with T.S. Wiley who teaches
environmental endocrinlogy and is the author of "Lights
Out" (Pocket Books, 2000) and "Sex, Lies & Menopause,"
(Harper Collins, 2005.) Her bio-mimertic hormone
restoration therapy (BHRT), also known as bio-identical
hormone replacement therapy, is for any doctor or woman
seeking cutting edge therapies for menopause and
anti-aging. Visit http://www.thewileyprotocol.com - where
you will find countless testimonials of women who have
found finally found relief and the ability to increase
libido.

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