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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Outside Vitamin D, there is not a lot of data supporting supplements. They are not regulated. You have no idea what you are actually getting. Eat a well-balanced diet with lots of fruits and vegetables.[/quote]
OP here.
I should be more specific here. I am not looking for HRT. I am not suffering from hot flashes and my doctor didn’t recommend it unless I really need it. 
As far as regulating supplements, it’s true, but I’ve learned that turmeric is marvelous for my early arthritis. Now I am looking at collagen peptides for my aging joins.  Most traditionally trained doctors here are not big on supplements,  but you look at other countries it’s different. 
I know that there are providers out there that are more knowledgeable in complementary medicine. 
Help me to find them. 
Thank you.🙏 [/quote]

I respect that you want to go a non-hormonal route, but hot flashes are only one of the symptoms that women experience in menopause. Others can be sleep and mood problems, anxiety, joint pain, dry skin, more frequent UTIs and vaginal dryness, decreased libido and sexual sensation, difficulty coming to orgasm, disappearing labia (really!!) thinning hair, bone loss, increasing cholesterol. Many of those are really well managed with either localized vaginal estrogen or systemic estrogen, or progesterone or testosterone, or all three.

Whether you “really need it” regarding HRT is your decision to make with your doctor’s advice about risks and benefits. Your doctor doesn’t get to tell you whether your symptoms feel bad enough to you, or not.

It makes me so mad that doctors are so patronizing to women about real symptoms they’re experiencing. [/quote]

Thank you for this. I think I might get second opinion on HRT.[/quote]

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