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The Function of Isoflavones for Women’s Reproductive Health

Isoflavones for reproductionIsoflavones are substances that are similar with estrogen, but differ in the OH bond. This substance in present in many plants, feeds and vegetables. The active substances are consisting of Isoflavones, lignans, and coumestan, but most of people use Isoflavones in the field of Health. Isoflavones can be found in tempeh, tofu, etc.. In our body, Isoflavones are similar to the hormone estrogen active. Isoflavones are evidenced can stage the inhibisitirosin kinase inhibits the growth and development so that cells can be used as a cancer preventive. In here Isoflavones preventing the inhibition of topoisomerase, i.e, preventing the transcription of DNA replication of DNA that produce protein that is not normal. In addition, Isoflavones have many other role such as cardioprotective, bone turnover, reproduction, etc..
Isoflavones also can prevent breast cancer for women. On ovarion cancer, Isoflavones change the resistance that are happen because of chemo-therapy to help increase the permeability of the cells so it can be repaired again easily and accelerate healing with chemo-therapy treatment. In the reproductive field, Isoflavones shown to improve the reproductive pattern of menstruation, menstrual pain, and duration of menstruation. Read more!

STDs: Diminish the Myths

STD mythsThe facts about sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are pretty straight forward. During sexual activity, more than a half-dozen STDs can be spread from one person to another. Bacteria and viruses are the carrier. The STDs are curable with minor health problems, and some are not which is deadly.
“If you don’t have any symptoms, then you don’t have an STD”. That was a big myth of STDs that exactly not true according to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It has heard plenty of other incorrect beliefs about sexually transmitted disease are happened in the society .

Therefore Debra Herbenick, PhD, sexual health educator at the Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction at Indiana University in Bloomington, announce some facts about STDs.

Facts 1: You cannot always see signs of an STD Read more!

Reproductive Health Tips

Reproductive HealthReproductive health is the salient factor that we should protect. To make sure that our body is healthy and free from disease is our job. Therefore, having a regular checkup with your doctors is very recommended for women (and men). Then, beside having a regular check up, we provide some tips that you can apply in your daily life to help you keep your body healthy.

It is suggested that you have to have a gynecologist. An active sexual life, would be a good reason to push your self having a gynecologist. Don’t hesitate with them. Consult everything that you think is your problem. Ask every questions comes to your mind from care to treatment. Don’t ever think that your question is silly. Just ask it out.

Hygiene is the important thing that we should underline. Therefore, it’s a must to wear a clean underwear to keep your sensitive part clean even though there are many arguments on the merits of feminine washes. Then, remember! For you guys, always wear clean ones! No Side A and Side B underwear wearing. Just forget those disgusting thing. Read more!

Calmens – Fertility Calendar Software

Calmens - Fertility Calendar Software pictureCalmens is a fertility software application, which helps you to plan the gender of your future child, calculate the fertile days (if you intend to get pregnant), calculate the most probable days to conceive a girl or a boy, calculate the approximate day of the baby’s birth, calculate the zodiacal sign of your baby, calculate the safe days for unprotected sexual intercourse, calculate the day of the next menstruations.

Using the natural contraception method (and therefore the CALMENS application) is not recommended for a woman if one of the next situations occurs:

* the menstrual periods are very irregular
* the length of the menstrual period is shorter than 21 days or longer than 39 days>
* the woman works in shifts (day / night) or she changes the time zone Read more!

4WomenOnly – Female Fertility Software

4WomenOnly - Female Fertility Software imageSoftware that calculates the date of ovulation. One of the most power systems for monitoring women’s health. Detect the period most propitious for conception or preventing a pregnancy. Get detailed data about each day of your menstrual cycle, the prediction of your child’s sex, information about your child’s birth date.
Supporting irregular cycles, showing the number of days before menstruation and ovulation, reminders, a calendar for half a year, statistics, export, printing, password protection and much more… Read more!

AiS Bloodays – Fertility Reproduction Software

AiS Bloodays - Fertility Reproduction Software imageBloodays is a calendar intended for adult. The calendar shows the best time for conception and the best time for safe love. The program helps you: 1. to use natural (rhythm) contraception method 2. to plan your life according your physiology 3. to choose the gender of your future baby 4. to calculate days of birth and days of conception.
Bloodays shows all these in a one year calendar. You can print this calendar and use it anywhere. Read more!

Femta – Fertility Software

Femta - Fertility Software pictureFemta is an award-winning innovative female fertility program for women to keep track of their menstrual cycles. Femta calculates the probabilities of becoming pregnant for every day and displays them in charts and a calendar.
You can easily record information on your menstrual cycles, pregnancy, childbirth and lactation. Femta helps you to predict future cycles.

It is the only application that gives you all of these great features: a very easy to use interface; the perpetual calendar with possibility to display from 1 to 36 months simultaneously; five types of charts Read more!

Ovulation Calculator – Fertility Software

Ovulation Calculator - Fertility Software pictureOvulation Calculator is a reliable tool fertility software that determines the date(s) when women are most and least likely to get pregnant, based on their menstruation cycles.
This software uses the method developed by doctors and tested in hundreds of fertility clinics all over the world. The precision rate for this application is 95%, meaning 95 out of 100 healthy women get pregnant if they have sex on the date(s) calculated and if they or their partners do not have any medical conditions that interferes with fertility. The success rate for no pregnancy risk days is much higher.

Please note that software makers don’t promote unprotected sex, give no guarantees and don’t imply that this software can help infertile couples; thus, we can’t be held liable for the way you decide to use Ovulation Calculator. Read more!

Ovulation Calendar Pro – Fertility Software

Ovulation Calendar Pro - Fertility Software pictureThe natural way to prevent pregnancy is to avoid unprotected intercourse during your fertile days, and Ovulation Calendar Pro will help by marking the unsafe days on your fertility calendar.
Ovulation Calendar Pro is a handy software tool designed to predict the days that you are most likely to be fertile so that you can achieve pregnancy or prevent it. Several key dates about your menstrual cycle are displayed including a range of fertile dates, ovulation, end of menstrual cycle, and possible due dates.

If you choose to specify a gender preference, the Ovulation Calendar Pro will provide you with tips to help you time intercourse to maximize your chances of conceiving a boy or a girl. Read more!

Hormonal Forecaster – Fertility Reproduction Software

Hormonal Forecaster - Fertility Reproduction Software imageThe Hormonal Forecaster is a Fertility Reproduction Software jam packed with features on both the traditional desktop and Palm handheld versions. From ovulation charting with fertility and menstrual cycle extrapolation to multiple techniques of complex behavioral analysis, the Hormonal Forecaster has numerous features that go well beyond typical software.
It’s all engineered to be as simple, and yet powerful and efficient, as possible.

Some features available are:

* Track Fertility based upon several Natural Family Planning Methods such as the Ovulation Method, the Symptothermal Method, and the Calendar Method.
* Automatically Generate Symptothermal Ovulation Charts based upon Record Cycle Dates, Basal Body Temperatures, Cervical Mucus Observations, and/or Cervical Position. Read more!

Implanon, New Contraceptive Implant Approved

Implanon New Contraceptive Implant pictureAmong the 38 million American women using some form of birth control, some have waited patiently for a new implantable contraceptive device to become available to them. And new contraceptive that is implanted in the upper arm and remains effective for three years will be made widely available in the United States early next year, filling a gap in birth control options for women since Norplant was taken off the market in 2002.
Implanon (etonogestrel implant) a contraceptive implant, about the size of a matchstick, has been approved by the US Food and Drugs Administration (FDA). It is the world’s only single-rod implantable contraceptive.

Implanon is the name of this implantable contraceptive that was launched in 1998, and is already used by 2.5 million women in over 30 countries. It’s designed to prevent pregnancy where it releases a continuous dosage of the synthetic hormone progestin for three full years after a doctor places it under the skin of a woman’s arm. Read more!

Bad Contraception For Bones

Bad Contraception For Bones picWomen who use Depo-Provera, a birth control method that’s given by injection every three months, could be at higher risk of developing osteoporosis than those who use other types of contraception. Depo-Provera appears to reduce estrogen, which plays a crucial part in protecting bone mass.

A recent study of women ages 18 to 39 found that those who used Depo-Provera lost bone mass at the hips at rate of 1.1 percent a year. Read more!

IVF Clinic Offers Free Treatment To Egg Sharers

A NEW IVF clinic in Wales yesterday offered free treatment worth thousands of pounds to women who took part in its “egg sharing” scheme. The London Women’s Clinic in Cardiff (LWCC) made its offer as it opened its doors at Cyncoed Medical Centre in the capital. Suitable women who agree to donate about half their harvested eggs to paying customers could save themselves £2,500 in treatment bills.

A spokeswoman for the clinic said, “To celebrate the launch of the new site, the clinic is offering free initial consultations costing £225 to women under 35 who are eligible as egg sharers for the clinic’s egg sharing programme.
“When accepted, egg sharers would receive free IVF treatment (normally costing £2,500) when they are matched with a suitable recipient. Read more!

Female Androgen Insufficiency Syndrome

There are many potential causes for sexual dysfunction, including depression, anxiety, history of sexual abuse, lack of privacy, relationship issues, ovarian failure, fatigue, etc. It’s unlikely that a singie solution will be suitable for all women, as opposed to men. For otherwise healthy men, the primary sexual dysfunctions related to poor blood flow can be due to many different causes (diabetes, hypertension, trauma, etc).

Despite the lack of promise for a unified treatment for all cases of female sexual dysfunction, there is hope for a great majority of those who might seek help. As noted in the surveys investigating the prevalence of female sexual dysfunction, a vast majority reports a lack of, or decrease in, sexual desire, either with or without other symptoms. Loss of libido is not restricted to women, as men have sought treatment for the same complaint. Read more!

Sexual Dysfunction: For Women Also?

Women Sexual DysfunctionThe understanding of normal sexual function in women, from a medical perspective, is still in its infancy. Only recently have the medical journals been addressing the field with vigor. Sexual function is a complex set of actions and processes and a problem may occur at any stage of the event. Complaints about sexual function are surprisingly common when clinicians take the time to address the topic with patients. Published surveys in the medical literature have documented rates of sexual dysfunction as high as 43 percent among healthy adult women. Read more!