The alarm jumped a decade ago with a work by the Women Health Initiative (WHI) on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) as a response to cancer. “But these reports were from the United States where there is another kind of preparation and where there is a higher rate of obesity,” elaborates Christopher Ignacio Garcia, Director of Obstetrics and Gynecology Hospital Sanitas La Zarzuela. Obesity, of course, is associated with an increased likelihood of cancer. “Hormones used in the U.S. were of animal origin. They were not very effective. Synthetic hormones have been manufactured in Europe for years. Our natural substances are identical to humans. Its technical name is estradiol,” says Antonio Gosálvez, head of the reproductive Chiron Gynecology Hospital in Madrid. “But the relationship demonized HRT and permission to use by half of the world,” says Garcia. It includes not only those associated with menopause. Melatonin, known as the sleep hormone, is one of the secrets of the famous. Not only can you sleep better but it also delays the aging of the skin. “We are at the right time. The medicine is like a pendulum. Prior to the 2002 report, HRT was administered to almost all women in menopause. “Then it stopped. And today, with more information, it is recommended only in certain cases and at lower doses,” says Garcia. The same is true of the Atlantic. The Oprah Winfrey defends “new” bio-identical therapy. “They are synthetic hormones such as those found in Europe. Bioidentical – but they renamed because it sounds better,” says Gosálvez. The future looks good: the University of Pisa, for example, has recently developed a pill to combat the loss of sexual appetite and the Spanish University for Medicinal Products approved its use in 2007. “I do not know how my life would be without melatonin. I have taken it for seven years,” says Carmen Barriga, professor of physiology at the University of Extremadura where she also studied. “It is released only in darkness and serves until the last cell of our body knows that it is night.” There’s more. “It strengthens the memory, stimulates the immune response and eliminates free radicals, leading to rejuvenation.” 02. CENTURY RECIPE slows the deterioration not only through the use hormone-based pills, patches and creams. Doctors do not tire of repeating: a healthy diet helps. Also, some foods have hormonal properties. “Melatonin is present in cereals, tomatoes, fish or nuts,” said Barriga. And the cup of the classic milk and honey?” This too. Milk is rich in tryptophan, an amino acid responsible for synthesizing this substance,” he says. 03. BYE, SADNESS – PMS is one of the great unknowns. Until the early ’50s, thanks to research by Katharina Dalton, many thought that it was the fruit of the imagination of women. The University of Umeå (Sweden) just put a pike in Flanders. Its scientists have identified the hormone responsible for the disease: allopregnanolone. “It is the first step in developing a treatment, “says Dr. Timby. 04. WOMEN AND VIAGRA? 98% of women said they would take it if there was a medication to control their sexual appetite, according to a report of the Spanish Association of Andrology, Reproductive Medicine. A group of researchers at the University of Pisa has published a very encouraging study last December in the journal of the International Menopause Society. Scientists have shown that DHEA improves sex life.

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