{"id":2408,"date":"2020-11-25T19:49:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T19:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=2408"},"modified":"2020-11-25T19:49:52","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T19:49:52","slug":"what-does-the-kndy-compound-breakthrough-mean-for-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/?p=2408","title":{"rendered":"What does the KNDy Compound Breakthrough Mean For Women?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In menopause there is no more important time for individualization of management. Hormone testing, weight management, exercise guidance, and anti-aging treatments with effective nutrition and supplements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are a few effective choices for menopausal symptoms such as hot flash treatment, that don&#8217;t involve hormones, but we have mostly only modestly effective alternatives. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>KNDy stans for : kisspeptin neurokinin B dynorphin compounds. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Menopause literally changes one&#8217;s brain. The hypothalamus of the brain which is part to of the control center gets a tangle of extra nerve cells called neurons and these overgrown nerves produce the KNDy compounds that include peptides and an opioid compound. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The theory is that too many of these KNDy compounds and seep over to temperature control center, which then causes hot flashes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three medications that can affect the KNKy production began in development, and two are in clinical trials now. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The research, which is progressing, and which Women&#8217;s Health Practice has been participating in, hopes to show that hot flashes and night sweat treatments will increase overall well being in menopause.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What is important to realize is that there are choices, and we&#8217;d like to consult and see how we can help. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In menopause there is no more important time for individualization of management. Hormone testing, weight management, exercise guidance, and anti-aging<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[241,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hormone-optimizaiton","category-our-gyno-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2410,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408\/revisions\/2410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.womenshealthpractice.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}