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Extract from Pine Bark Helpful in Reducing Perimenopausal Symptoms

by Sreeraman on August 29, 2007 at 6:13 PM Women Health News

A new study has revealed that ‘Pycnogenol’, bark extract from the French maritime pine tree, reduces common symptoms that women entering menopause experience.

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The symptoms also known as ‘climacteric symptoms’ include hot flashes, depression, panic attacks and cholesterol. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services says that perimenopause is natural for aging, and that it beckons the end of a woman’s reproductive years.

The stage shows the time when a woman’s body begins to move into menopause and can last anywhere from two to eight years.

'Pycnogenol was chosen for this study due to previous research revealing health benefits associated with cognitive function, skin elasticity, nitric oxide stimulation, free radical scavenging and the broadening of antioxidant activity,' said Dr. Peter Rohdewald, Institute of Pharmaceutical Chemistry at Germany’s University of Munster and a lead researcher of this study.

'Achieving these health benefits is key to treating perimenopausal symptoms naturally,' Dr Rohdewald. The randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study was conducted at Ham-Ming Hospital in Taiwan with 155 peri-menopausal women.

Each day, patients either received 200 mg Pycnogenol or placebo, and recorded their symptoms using the Women’s Health Questionnaire (WHQ). The WHQ consisted of the following: somatic symptoms, depressed mood, vasomotoric symptoms, memory/concentration, attractiveness, anxiety, sexual behaviour, sleep problems and menstrual symptoms.

Additionally, patients visited the clinic at one, three and six months following start of treatment. At each visit, BMI, blood pressure, lipid profile and total antioxidant status were recorded.

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