Dr. Love includes soy-rich foods and herbs in her daily regimen. Meanwhile, she keeps an eye on the emerging data. She had been taking 25 grams of soy powder every day, for example, until a recent double-blind study suggested 40 grams was optimal. Women are generally disinclined to wait for official answers and prefer to apply their networking skills in an informal menopause information exchange. There are several reasons.
Skepticism is the inheritance doctors have gotten over the last century.
This generation also has a global perspective. Thanks to an enhanced ability to travel abroad or on the internet, women can learn about other cultures and treatments. An internationalization of economics means we're getting an influx of information from cultures that like natural remedies. In China, they don't take Premarin. The danger is that women are doing their own informal clinical trials, and that most doctors cannot keep up with them.