While there is little doubt that the "symptoms of menopause" are triggered by hormone imbalances or deficiencies, there is great disagreement as to why these imbalances or deficiencies occur. Modern medicine, of course, holds that they are part of Nature's plan. But, if that were true, every woman, in every culture, throughout all of history, would have suffered more or less equally at this time of life, and medical texts from every era would be stuffed with reports of it. The truth, however, is that menopausal distress was relatively rare before the industrial age. And, in many simpler, less industrial cultures, it still is.

These facts make it clear that hormonal imbalances do not "just happen." Instead they are the logical outgrowths due to the epedemic of today's poor diet, extreme stress, and nearly constant exposure to synthetic chemicals. Thus what we call the "symptoms of menopause" should perhaps be renamed the "symptoms of modern lifestyle that appear during premenopause or at menopause."

For many years, physicians have prescribed powerful hormone drugs to help women overcome hot flashes and other mid-life discomforts. Meanwhile the health food industry has offered the weaker, but safer variety of hormones from soy, wild yam, and other plants. But, from a holistic point of view, this is not enough.

Traditional Chinese Medicine explains that modern diet and lifesyle impair the function of various organs and glands. One of the effects of this is that such organs and glands are prevented from producing and distributing hormones as they should. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, the Kidney system includes the kidneys themselves, the adrenal glands, and the entire genito-urinary-reproductive tract. In the years preceding menopause, the ovaries produce progressively less progesterone, until finally, they shut down completely. At this time, the adrenals become our primary progesterone source. If these glands are weakened by stress, diet, etc. they may be unable to meet the body's needs, hence the uncomfortable symptoms of pre-menopause, and menopause.

The tonic herbs in Pro-Fema form a superb balancing tonic for all the body's major organ systems, with special emphasis on the Kidney and Heart systems. This herbal and multiple formula is one of the finest midlife support systems ever offered, and helps to provide comfort from midlife discomforts more quickly-and completely-than other supplements.

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Complete vitamin, nutritional and herbal support for pre-menopause and menopausal women.

Ingredients:

Vitamins: A (15,00 IU), D (600 IU), E (400 IU), C (1000 mg), B-1 (thiamin 45 mg), B-2 (riboflavin 51 mg), B-3 (niacinamide, niacin 100 mg), B-5 (calcium pantothenate 100 mg), B-6 (pyridoxine HCL 60 mg), B-12 (methylocobalamin 200 mcg), Folic Acid (1000 mcg), K (photonadione 40 mcg), Biotin (300 mcg)

Minerals: Calcium (fumarate, citrate ascorbate 1000 mg), Magnesium (oxide, malate 400 mg), Potassium (malate 49 mg), Zinc (citrate 25 mg), Manganese (glycinate 10mg), Copper (bis-glycinate 1.5 mg), Selenium (l-selenomethionine 200 mcg), Chromium (niacinate 200 mcg), Iodine (kelp 150 mcg), Molybdenum (glycinate 25 mcg), Vandium (glycinate 25 mcg), Boron (glycinate 3 mg), Silica (horsetail herb 500 mcg)

BioFlavonoids: Hesperidin Complex (50%, 600 mg), Rutin (saphora jaoponica, 50 mg), Quescitin (saphora japonica 50 mg), Naringen (superfood base, 4.5 mg), Eriocitrin (superfood base, 2.5 mg)

Isaofavones (by average): Daidzein, daidzen (12 mg), Genistein, genisten (8 mg), Puerarians, biochanins (12 mg)

Co-Nutrients: Choline bitartrate (100 mg), Inositol (40 mg), Lecithin (35 mg), Chlorophyll, mixed carotenoids (10 mg), Gamma oryzonaol (rice 50 mog), Octocosonol (spinach 300 mcg).

Plant Enzymes: Protese (HUT 6000), Amylase (DU 2000), Cellulase (CU 600), Lipase (LU 60).

Super Foods: Spirulena vegetable plankton (720 mg), High desert honeybee pollen (280 mg), Wheat, Barley, Oat and Kamut grass juice powder blend 33:1 (130 mg), Norwegian Kelp (4.5% Iodine 36 mg).

Herbal Extract: Chaste tree 5% flavones (80 mg), Siberian Ginseng (40 mg), Black Cohosh (40 mg), Coleus forskolii (75 mg), Dong Quai (48 mg), Licorice root 12:1 extract (40 mg), Burdock root 4:1 extract (60 mg), Rehmmania 40% b-pachyman (20 mg), Poria Cocos 1% catapol (40 mg), Wild Yam Root 6% diosgenin (24 mg), White Mulberry 4:1 extract (60 mg), White Peony 4% paenoflorin extract (20 mg), Ginger 5% ginerois (20 mg), Pueraria omiensis 50% isoflavones (64 mg).

Note: ProFema also provides scores of amino acids, lipids, trace elements, matabolic pigments and other factors that are present in its base of superfoods and herbs.

Item Number: PEL401           Brand:  Pure Essence Labs

Size: 180 tablets (Manufacturer's suggested dosage: 6 tablets, two with each meal, or three with breakfast and lunch)

Price: $40.00