Hormone Use in Menopause and Male Andropause : A Choice for Women and Men

Preface
Part 1
1. Why do women have the menopause?
2. What are the signs of menopause
3. What is Hormone Replacement Therapy?
4. Why should women consider HRT?
5. Risk Benefit Ratio: Making the Choice
6. Can HRT prevent Alzheimer's disease?
7. Does the Approach of menopause end fertility?
8. Herbal products for Menopause
9. Can phyto-estrogens replace HRT?
10. Sex and the aging woman
11. What is the status of designer estrogens?
Part 2
12. Is there a male menopause?
13. Is testosterone the only androgen?
14. Why should men consider HRT
15. What are the choices for men?
16. The first designer androgen
17. Can men safely use HRT?
18. Should men use non-prescription androgens?
19. Sex and the Aging male
20. Can testosterone help brain functions?
Part 3
Questions and Answers:
The menopause
The andropause
Glossary of Terms
References
Index

Avainsanat: MEDICAL / Gynecology & Obstetrics MED033000