Complementary and alternative therapies explained - a British Menopause Society video

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1) I don't feel like any complementary therapies have been explained helpfully here, despite the title. The message I'm getting is don't take St John's Wort or Black Cohosh. Why isn't this video being recorded by someone qualified to lecture in complementary therapies? 2) Last time I checked oxytocin causes breast milk production and let down, not the opposite as you state 3) Thanks for letting us know that CBT doesn't take all your problems away 4) Of course there are few grade A, RCT /longitudinal studies. Who would fund them? 5) To quote the WHI study which was famously flawed and has caused more issues for menopausal women than it has helped, is laughable. 7) Despite the title, you actually talk more about HRT, SNRIs, vasodilators and anticonvulsants than complementary therapies 8) I hardly think Vagifem comes under 'complementary therapies'. It is listed in the Electronic Medicines Compendium: www.medicines.org.uk/emc/product/5719/smpc#gref I could go on, and this is a just a 10 minute clip! Please consider taking down and re-recording with more helpful content on complementary therapies, advising front and centre, that people should go and see a qualified, insured and professionally regulated therapist who will tailor a treatment, whatever that is, to the individual patient. A combined approach can be extremely effective for many patients. Regards, Rachel Boon Naturopath & Herbalist BSc (Hons) Human Biology Dip CNM Herbal Medicine Dip CNM Naturopathic Medicine