Friday, March 2, 2012

WOMAN OF THE WEEK: Winnifred B. Cutler, Ph.D. on Pheromones

Dr. Winnifred B. Cutler and her work are highlighted with our distinction, Woman of the Week. This distinction is given to a Woman who has been a leader in Woman’s Issues.

The correct pronunciation is FAIR-uh-moans. What are pheromones, who has them, and what do they do?

Pheromones were first described in animals. They were described as being a substance that helped to promote the species. But did pheromones exist in humans? Scientific research, backed by a peer-reviewed journal, did not exist until around 1986. Winnifred Cutler, Ph.D. spearheaded the transition from animal to human research, compiling an excellent summary of her early work done to date in 1999 (1). Dr. Cutler’s studies on female sexual dysfunction cited several main etiologies: hormone changes leading to pheromone reduction; increased age; and pelvic surgery.

By 2005, there were 4 recognized Classes of Pheromones:

1. Sex-attractant human pheromones

2. Recognition mother-infant pheromones

3. Menstrual synchrony female pheromones

4. Territorial-marking animal pheromones

A more comprehensive definition is found at Dr. Cutler’s Athena Institute, which offers concise education and treatment information. Not only is her personal work highlighted, but a broad perspective of Pheromones is provided. Additionally, information on her Institute, admissions, and medical school admissions articles are offered. We especially are grateful that this website offers an in-depth highlight on scientific, double-blind, placebo-controlled, peer-reviewed journal publication, which is the Gold Standard of scientific research. Her Pheromone definition is as follows:

“Pheromones are naturally occurring odorless substances the fertile body excretes externally, conveying an airborne signal that provides information to, and triggers responses from, the opposite sex of the same species.”

To aid in pheromone-diminished causes of decreased sexual desire, Dr. Cutler has synthesized topical pheromone cosmetics.

We are thrilled to convey this honor to Dr. Winnifred Cutler, who deserves mention and recognition for devoting a lifetime to clinical and bench research that has been published in scientific, peer-reviewed journals. Hat’s Off to You!

Here is a pasted copy of transcript on her Home Page: __________________________________________________

Hormones and
Your Health

Hysterectomy

Menopause

Searching for Courtship

Love Cycles

Menstruation

Dr. Cutler's Credentials

Published Scientific articles

Wellness in Women Over 40 Years of Age

Sexuality and Pheromones: An Overview

Male Sexuality
Sex Over 40: Postmenopausal Women and Attraction

Winnifred Cutler, Ph.D.

Founded Athena Institute in 1986

Dr. Winnifred Cutler, B.S. in Psychology Cum Laude from Ursinus College in 1973, earned her Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979 followed by postdoctoral work in behavioral endocrinology at Stanford University. In 1985 she co-founded the Women's Wellness Program at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. She has published over 35 scientific papers, is co-inventor on 5 patents and author of eight books on women's health translated into 7 languages - including her newest book, Hormones and Your Health: The Smart Woman's Guide to Hormonal and Alternative Therapies for Menopause (April 2009) with essential information for women over age 35 to achieve their 'personal-best' health.

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(Hey! Yay! Another colleague from Stanford and the University of Pennsylvania! Both! Yay!)

Dr. Cutler's website may be viewed at www.athenainstitute.com. Visit! Tweet! Share!

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“Women Helping Women”. That is our encouragement for the day! Now Onward & Forward in 2012!

REFERENCE:

(1) Cutler WB. Human Sex-Attractant Pheromones: Discovery, Research, Development, and Application in Sex Therapy. Psychiatric Annals: Vol: 29(1), pp 54-59; 1999.

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The First Virtual Medical School Online

On January 1, 2012, Dr. Margaret Aranda was the first to develop the concept of a virtual medical school (VMS). Since 2006, she was in a horrific car accident that left her bed-bound with a traumatic brain injury and DI. She became a "professional patient" and saw a myraid of doctors for a variety of brainstem and brain dysfunctions. She knew all too well what it felt like to be a patient, trapped in a body that felt like it didn't belong to her. Eventually, the DI resolved.

She knows common troubles with the medical system: patients not feeling like they are listened to, patients, especially women, being treated as if they have a psychiatric or hormonal problems ("It's all in your head"), patients given topical lipservice when the doctor missed a vertebral artery dissection, and living with dysautonomia. Dr. Aranda kept a Memoir while hospitalized, in Neurorehabilitation, learning how to walk and talk again, and learning how to do simple things like bake cupcakes. The Memoir, No More Tears, A Physician Turned Patient Inspires Recovery is so named because no one thought she would survive, especially with 3 years on a PICC line for fluids. Ah. But no one really knew her, did they?

Then she got better. It took 7 years, but she was better.

She went back to work in a clinic for ?a few days. The next thing she knew, she was back to having a huge migraine that left her incapacitated, but this time was accompanied by ataxia so that she was bumping into the walls. Off to the ER, hypoperfusion to the brainstem #2, and a doctor told her he would catch her if she fell...and had her close her eyes and do finger-to-nose simultaneously and well, she...she shook....and she wobbled.......then she really wobbled some more..........then she completely lost her balance and fell to the hard wood floor. All in one full swoop; no one caught her. The doctor may have his side of the story, but the fact is that she developed another TBI with DI, gave up a position at Stanford, had difficulty titrating the dysautonomia with the DI (sometimes being hyponatremic to 121, other times having acute kidney injury with a GFR of 25%).

She lives quietly at home with her daughter and dogs, taking up her love of writing as a chance that she may never have had. So far, she has written 5 books. Her latest, Archives of the Vagina: A Journey through Time, is part Memoir, part History, part Women's Culture, part Medicine, and wholly Health & Wellness. Meant to take a girl from puberty through menopause and be helpful for Long-Term Care, Nursing Homes, Living Wills, and future planning, all her books can be found at: http://www.drmargaretaranda.tateauthor.com/other-works/

Dr. Aranda would rather speak to children than half the adults she knows, lol, so she wrote two books for her daughter. Little Missy Two-Shoes is always transformed from disliking something (ladybugs, going to school) to learning how to embrace them. Her last book is Stepping from the Edge, the Sequel to No More Tears, and a Workbook with room for write-in answers after virtually every chapter.

Dr. Aranda's Virtual Medical School edifies the transformation from sickness to health as being part of the entire entity of a person: mind, body, and soul. Just as she was taught at Oral Roberts' School of Medicine. She learned to pray with her patients, and still hears that still, small whisper of the Holy Spirit that guides her in prophesying, confirming, and serving as edification for the sick, that Our Lord is alive and well, and He is still in the business of doing miracles. Period.