WomenSense - Menopause Hair Formula (SesZenBio & EstroG-100)

Product Notes:

Context: Estrogen and the Aftermath of its Withdrawal

Estrogen is primarily a messenger influencing many bodily systems, tissues and control centres like the hypothalamus, and it also functions as a potent anti-inflammatory agent. Dramatic decreases in its production can bring many unwelcome symptoms you may well be seeking relief from, using a safe natural health alternative like this.

These include vasomotor symptoms (hot flashes and night sweats); vaginal dryness; sleep quality diminishment, or outright insomnia; paresthesia (tingling, numbness, pins-and-needles, or skin-crawling); mood balance, nervousness, and fatigue; joint discomfort and rheumatic pain; and hair loss, thinness, and/or dryness.

Over the years, some individual herbal extracts have been shown to help with one or two of those individual symptoms. But until recently, it seemed unlikely a single one can do it all, especially since not all respond equally. But, as the first video asks, what if one ingredient could do it all? Or at least, one carefully balanced formula, which combines the following two clinically proven proprietary formulations, which WomenSense has been the first company not only in Canada but the world with sense enough to combine:

* SesZenBio™, for the hair - made solely from the leaves of the Hummingbird Tree, the restorative powers of its sustained release biotin is enjoying wide acclaim in products like MaryRuth's Daily Liquid Hair Formula or Gummies for curtailing loss and improving its texture and density; and,

* EstroG-100®, for the rest - made from three herbs familiar to Chinese and Korean traditional medicine, whose synergistic effects for those other menopausal and peri-menopausal symptoms were first recognized, developed and perfected by the Naturalendo Tech Co. of South Korea, and have been established in seven human clinical trials to date.
In popular parlance and formal terms, this trio consists of Korean Angelica (Angelica gigas), Jerusalem Sage (Phlomis umbrosa), and Korean Swallowwort (Cynanchum wilfordii)).

The latter formulation covers a lot of terrain - think of EstroG-100 as the Crosby, Stills, Nash of this space. But as good as it is on providing harmony on a whole myriad of symptoms (on the order of knocking them DOWN a major notch in frequency and/or severity to make life far more tolerable for three-quarters of users*), EstroG has never purported to do much for the scalp or hair in particular. WomenSense was the first company not only in Canada but the world with enough sense to combine that original trio for those other symptoms with a Young for the hair, to make it a full-on quartet to cover all those bases.

* Human trials have found 3 out of 4 women respond well to this exact ratio at the daily dose of EstroG-100, with a major reduction in severity: an average overall symptom drop from 29.5 down to 11.3 on the KMI Score, easing them out of "moderate-to-severe" distress to a "mild, manageable" level.

Divvying Up Rather than Replacing Estrogen's Workload

WomenSense Menopause Hair Formula is a purely botanical blend with a high safety profile devoid of hormonal risks, because its four herbs are not phytoestrogens - that's not how they operate. They do not bind to estrogen receptors to achieve their effects, nor do they stimulate estrogen-sensitive tissues hormonally. Instead of trying to replicate diminished levels directly through mimicry, they manage to shoulder lot of estrogen's burdens in other ways - divvying up some of the signalling, protective or other tasks that estrogen used to take care of amongst its own quartet, which utilize or foster entirely different channels of micro-communication and/or nourishment.

For example, many symptoms like hot flashes and disrupted sleep appear to be due to the hypothalamus performing erratically in the absence of the strong estrogen signals it used to receive. To compensate, the Korean Angelica in this formula (featuring active pyranocoumarins, specifically decursin and decursinol angelate) acts as an adaptogen to reset your thermostat. Instead of trying to jump-start the estrogen signals, it bypasses those altogether, and works via the neuroendocrine system to indirectly fine-tune two other critical central nervous system pathways — serotonin and adenosine — to improve natural feedback loops. That action is complemented by the Korean Swallowwort (whose major active ingredient is called Cynandione A) component, which shortens hot flashes' duration by improving peripheral microcirculation to dissipate heat buildup better at the skin level.

Similarly, keeping all the various types of skin, hair, bone, joint, and other tissues in our body healthy and strong and/or hydrated or lubricated requires two-way communication between those tissues and the brain facilitated by estrogen. Without the brain's go-ahead, normal cellular growth and maintenance can be neglected, leading to dry internal skin; shrinking hair follicles and thinning and shedding hair; and/or painful joint stiffness, particularly since estrogen also has a protective effect against joint pain in pre-menopausal people, whose absence can be sorely missed.

Naturally, this formulation is able cover all three of those remaining bases with its different players:
- first, to ease "menopause arthralgia" pain right at the source the Jerusalem Sage steps in to take up estrogen's protective roles in three ways: blocking inflammatory cytokines, by acting on cellular pathways; preserving cartilage, by blocking the MMP enzymes which degrade it; and rebuilding bones and improving their density, by triggering Runx2, the master genetic switch that directs cells to manufacture the protein scaffolding needed for bone matrix mineralization and locking the calcium into place;
- second, to help keep tissues moistened and to help reduce the severity of skin paresthesia symptoms in half, the Korean Swallowwort uses cellular hydration and microcirculation pathways to stabilize peripheral blood vessels and settle random nerve misfires; and,
- on third, the Hummingbird Tree leaf extract doesn't just instruct our hair follicles to continue to function normally and stave off testosterone's tendency to shrink them like estrogen did - it furnishes them with the best tool they need to do their job: biotin, to rebuild keratin, which can drastically slow down daily shedding and gradually produce thicker, fuller hair. This biotin is delivered in a whole-plant matrix that remains circulating in the bloodstream for up to 19 hours a day to provide nutrients to the hair roots via the scalp capillaries, while also serving as a vital co-enzyme which helps our metabolism convert food into actual energy, which can help stave off deep midday fatigue.

By bringing all four of these targeted botanicals together under one roof, WomenSense Menopause Hair Formula is a unique Canadian blend that doesn't just mask one or two individual symptoms, but steps in to manage the total systemic fallout of estrogen withdrawal with a comprehensive, synchronized approach that takes the burden off your body naturally.