17-06-2012, 06:42
Hi MrsKathryn! I hope your program gets off to a good start, and glad your libido is fixed 
I'd just like to add as a side note on black cohosh, (I'm currently researching for a paper at school on menopause supplements and learning something about NBE at the same time
), that it doesn't seem to have any estrogenic effects, as stated in your link there Isabelle, but studies have shown that it is somewhat effective for treatment of hot flashes and mood through stimulation of serotonin receptors, and so that's probably why it is used for menopause etc and has been thought to be estrogenic previously. Yeah, probably not so useful for NBE though.
see the part on black cohosh
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1764641/?tool=pubmed
and these are a couple of the studies that are cited
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12952416/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12822708/
I'd just like to add as a side note on black cohosh, (I'm currently researching for a paper at school on menopause supplements and learning something about NBE at the same time
), that it doesn't seem to have any estrogenic effects, as stated in your link there Isabelle, but studies have shown that it is somewhat effective for treatment of hot flashes and mood through stimulation of serotonin receptors, and so that's probably why it is used for menopause etc and has been thought to be estrogenic previously. Yeah, probably not so useful for NBE though. see the part on black cohosh
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1764641/?tool=pubmed
and these are a couple of the studies that are cited
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12952416/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12822708/