Today, doctors are learning how environmental endocrinology'the effect of daily stressors like light, food and crowding on multiple endocrine systems'controls rate of aging and quality of life. Many aspects of diabetology and reproductive endocrinology are converging to become what we call menopause medicine. This elite group of forward-thinking physicians and researchers from all over the world are trying to put the scientific method back into medicine.

Medical practitioners can now participate in an intensive introduction to the newest emerging specialty of endocrinology by attending "Two Days Back on Earth," a CME course on environmental endocrinology, covering how stressors on multiple endocrine systems control the rate of aging and quality of life to be held at the GCC Planetarium, Glendale California. Also known as Darwinian Medicine, environmental endocrinology covers the use of hormones, particularly in menopausal women.

The two day CME accredited seminar is attended by physicians worldwide and provides a maximum 17 credit hours in category 1PRA.

Today, doctors are being educated about bio-mimetic hormone restoration therapy (BHRT), currently termed bio-identical hormone replacement therapy. They are learning about the following: Insulin and cortisol metabolism over the course of a lifetime; The interplay of insulin, SHBG and estrogen; The effect of declining quality of sleep on sex steroid production and use; The seasonal variation in hormone fluctuation through shunt physiology; The action of sex steroids on immunological, emotional and neurological disorders; How to use and adjust the Wiley Protocol to solve the common side effects of menopause hot flashes, migraines, joint pain, incontinence, hemorrhaging, endometriosis, hypo and hyperthyroidism, fibroids, PCOD, insomnia, acid reflux, gall bladder disease, thinning skin, vulvodynia, low libido, IBS, anxiety and depression; The connection of insulin and sex hormones to cancer; C-Reactive protein, immunological cardiovascular risk; Non-genomic actions of steroid hormones in reproductive tissues; and complex actions of sex steroids in adipose tissue, the cardiovascular system and brain.

"Since I took this course I have become more keenly aware of the nuances of hormonal interaction. The certification course really helps you understand the molecular aspects of hormonal relationships. The knowledge acquired significantly assists me in management of patients and I am constantly amazed at the level of interaction achieved on the protocol, "said Courtney Ridley M.D., a Houston-based physician who not only attended the course, but now helps teach. "It answers the questions being posed regarding cancer and other dysfunction afflicting not only menopausal women but those women with significant alteration of cycle created by interaction with our estrogen toxic environment."