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Managing Your Menopause Type^® Educational Class
Session Three - Your Risks of Disease
Your Risks of Disease
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.
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.
Now for the good news.
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.
The information you learn from this session will guide you in choosing therapies that are unique to your individual needs, based on your risks.
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.
The risks for disease that we will cover first include:
	Osteoporosis (and tooth loss)
	Cardiovascular Disease (Heart Disease and Stroke)
	Cancer Risks (breast, colon, lung & reproductive)
Next we will discuss the postmenopausal risks for insulin resistance and diabetes.
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.
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.
What this means to you
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.
The extensive Professional Management of Menopause Type^® Seminar is available to healthcare professionals as a component of the Management of Menopause Types® Program. Women are advised to Find a Physician & Choose a Pharmacist that are have been trained in Management of Menopause Type^® Program
What's Next?
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.
This public education class does not provide physicians, pharmacists or other healthcare professional with the extensive training and ongoing education provided within the Management of Menopause Type^® Program.
The extensive Professional Management of Menopause Type^® Seminar is available to healthcare professionals as a component of the Management of Menopause Types® Program.
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