{"id":7260,"date":"2013-07-22T21:06:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7260"},"modified":"2013-07-22T21:06:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T11:06:26","slug":"menopausal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7260","title":{"rendered":"Menopausal? Supplementation with Pycnogenol\u00ae (pine bark extract) improves signs and symptoms of menopausal transition."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought some pine bark extract a while ago to put in my top food bars and nutrition powders.<br \/>\nThe research continues to reinforce the validity of my decisions to incorporate a wide range of very healthy ingredients:<br \/>\nSupplementation with Pycnogenol\u00ae (pine bark extract) improves signs and symptoms of menopausal transition.<br \/>\nA subset of six most common symptoms comprising hot flushes, night sweats, mood swings, irregular periods, loss of libido and vaginal dryness showed a decrease from average 2.67\/4 to 1.45\/4 after 8 weeks supplementation with Pycnogenol\u00ae. Further symptoms related to fatigue, sleeping disorders, concentration and memory problems, dizziness, depression and irritability all improved significantly with Pycnogenol\u00ae. Oxidative stress was significantly lowered after four weeks (P&lt;0.05) and eight weeks (P&lt;0.022) in the Pycnogenol\u00ae group while no significant changes were observed in the control group at any time.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22108479\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/22108479<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought some pine bark extract a while ago to put in my top food bars and nutrition powders. The research continues to reinforce the validity of my decisions to incorporate a wide range of very healthy ingredients: Supplementation with Pycnogenol\u00ae (pine bark extract) improves signs and symptoms of menopausal transition. A subset of six &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=7260\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Menopausal? Supplementation with Pycnogenol\u00ae (pine bark extract) improves signs and symptoms of menopausal transition.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}