Gynecologists report that about a third of women who seek aid for their symptoms end up taking prescription hormones, while another third use bio-identical therapy, and the last third look for natural remedies or simply attempt to ignore the symptoms in their life.

Many women turned to natural products to treat their symptoms after a 2002 National Institutes of Health study that linked hormone therapy with an increased risk for cancer, stroke, blood clotting, and heart disease.

As a result the alternative treatment market increased substantially and now there are over 500 products that are supposedly aimed at treating menopausal symptoms in the forms of teas, tablets, gels, creams, and capsules.

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