 Let's talk a little bit about menopause support. Some people would like to know about vitamins and supplements that you could take to sleep soundly and help with the night sweats associated with menopause. Okay, well we're going to talk about things that are over the counter right now because there are many, many things on prescription. Certainly work very, very well and talk about things like progesterone, estrogens, testosterone, DHEA. But right now we're going to talk about over-the-counter, safe over-the-counter type preparations. And I think one of the main things you can take is fish oil. Now fish oil works in several ways. Number one, it acts as an anti-inflammatory throughout your entire body. And a good example is things that like arthritis, excessive estrogen in the body. Certainly fish oil will help. Also helps cardiovascular wise, reduces triglycerides. So fish oil I think is a must for anybody, anybody that is having any problem with any menopausal symptoms. Things like magnesium helps dramatically for cramping. Magnesium is a marvelous drug. It's used for more than just cramping. It helps as a supplement and I say as a supplement and not to replace a high blood pressure medicine. Because it helps with hypertension. But again I must repeat, it is not used for high blood pressure, it is used as an adjunct in high blood pressure. That's extremely important. It will also help when one is on opioids or one is on pain medication. It helps to make the pain medication more effective. It helps one to sleep. Many opioid dependent patients are magnesium deficient. So taking magnesium certainly will help. And again I guess one of the most important things is sleep. And by the way the one thing I did not mention before when it comes to stress, when it comes to weight management, when it comes to any of the stressful situations, sleep is by far the most important. And to get eight or nine or ten hours a day is an absolute must for people that are under undue stress. Do you have a preferred type of magnesium, I mean glycinate, citrate, malate, what do you think about that? Yes, let's talk about magnesium because that's very, very interesting. Everybody has heard of citrate or magnesium, well that's magnesium citrate. And certainly one can use magnesium citrate, it has a slight undesirable effect if one might say, it gives you loose bowels and that's something you certainly don't need if you're going to take magnesium. I would recommend the magnesium glycinate, G-L-Y-C-I-N-A-T-E, and certainly professional supplement center has a number, a number of magnesiums that have magnesium glycinate in it that does not cause diarrhea and you get excellent absorption of the magnesium. What type of dosage would you suggest? Probably about six hundred milligrams a day, probably even go up to a thousand milligrams a day on the magnesium glycinate. And you may take it throughout the day by the way, and absolutely when you want to sleep at night, you take it about an hour before you go to bed and that indeed will help with sleep. And I've also heard that it helps with restless leg syndrome, do you have any thoughts on that? There have been reports that it helps with restless leg, but again magnesium is an absolutely great drug because there are so many things, so many things that one can use with magnesium. I think I even have a list here and what they talk about, they talk about things like insomnia, restless leg, stress, back pain, migraine, headaches, nervousness, high blood pressure, hyperactivity, osteoporosis. These certainly are things to consider. There is not strong evidence on all of these, on some of them there are strong evidence that it works, on others it's something that you might want to consider. Well, I think that's great information because most of us know we should be taking calcium, but I do find that a lot of people come in and they're not even taking magnesium. Ah, yes, when one takes calcium, it's a good idea to take magnesium and you want about half the magnesium as compared to the calcium. This helps with the absorption of calcium. Magnesium is an absolutely wonderful, wonderful mineral. We all should be cognizant of what our magnesium levels are and certainly physician can do that. Once you find out, you can then take appropriate action. All right, well thank you. I have another question in regard to the menopause support. What about the dangers in taking progesterone and estrogen for menopause? Well certainly when you say estrogen, progesterone, even testosterone or DHEA, it has to be under the auspices of infusion. So the doctor will be monitoring you on a regular basis. Is too much estrogen good for you? Absolutely not. Is too much progesterone or too much testosterone? Or too much of anything a good thing? Absolutely not. What you're looking for is you're looking for balance and that is the secret, balance. All of your life you've been balanced when you think about it. When one has menses, you go up, you go down, up and down. But as you reach menopausal age, those things don't happen anymore. Your progesterone levels start to fall dramatically and then your estrogen levels start to rise and your testosterone very, very slowly diminishes. So what we try to do is we try to bring you back into balance and that is the secret, balance. As a matter of fact, in life, balance is the secret to everything. I do agree. We have a lot of women that ask about hot flashes. I think that's something a lot of women are going through. And some of the women would like to know, when they first start to have some of those hot flashes, is there something they can start taking right away and hopefully stop those? Yeah, there's a number of things. And the first thing I mentioned before and I said, I absolutely love, love fish oil. And many times, fish oil will reduce that inflammatory process and help to reduce some of the flashes. Things like magnesium, we're talking about the milder things. There is also a progesterone cream over the counter, right? Which they use sometimes. But again, what I would do is before I start taking any of the hormones, I certainly would want to have my levels checked to find out exactly where I am on the hormone scale. So with most of these things, you could start with some of the basics, the fish oil, the vitamin C, magnesium. Those are good for everyone. And then move on to some testing and if you didn't get some good results with their products. Absolutely, absolutely. And again, there are a number of products over the market, over the counter. A good example is, I think Medigenics has one called Estrella, which works very well taking two tablets a day in order to reduce symptoms of menopause. So, okay.