They tracked which women went on to develop high blood pressure at least a year after starting treatment. The University of Calgary team examined health records of more than 112,000 women ages 45 and older who filled prescriptions for at least six months’ worth of estrogen-only hormone treatment between 20. High blood pressure further increases that risk - but it’s not clear whether there’s a link with hormone therapy for menopause symptoms.Ĭanadian researchers wondered if the way hormones are absorbed - orally, vaginally or through the skin - could play a role. It’s a single, beautifully realized vision with edge and a true heart.WASHINGTON (AP) - Women often use hormone therapy to relieve hot flashes and other menopause symptoms - and new research suggests patches or creams may be safer for their blood pressure than pills.Īs women’s bodies produce lower levels of reproductive hormones during menopause their risk for heart disease rises. “Captain Fantastic” is the second feature from writer-director-actor Matt Ross, and it’s no flash-in-the-pan success. This struggle between the individual parent and society’s expectations is one without an easy resolution. He, on the other hand, clearly loves his family deeply and genuinely thinks that his way is the best way. While the kids seem happy, all outsiders are pretty much in agreement that Ben is unfit to parent. Things get especially tense when they meet Ben’s sister (Kathryn Hahn) and her family and disrupt their suburban normalcy. The younger children have been so sheltered that they’ve never heard of Coke or Nike or seen an obese person. They pack up their rickety green school bus and venture from their ivory tower to go south into the depths of the America that Ben hates. The death forces the family members out of their little paradise and into the real world to attend Mom’s funeral in Arizona - even though Leslie’s grieving father, Jack (Frank Langella), has threatened to arrest Ben if he shows up. Ben finds out early in the film that she has killed herself, and he shares the news frankly with his kids. But we never get the chance to really meet her. The kids miss her dearly, and her absence is becoming an issue. The children’s mother, Leslie (Trin Miller), has been hospitalized for three months with severe depression. There’s something more serious festering, too. I’m a Maoist!” Bo says in an angsty teenage huff at one point. Still, cracks are starting to show in this little family unit and not just because normal hormones and attitudes are emerging. And, for the most part, they worship their father and their lifestyle - Noam Chomsky Day and all. Ranging in age from single digits to late teens, the six children, Nai (Charlie Shotwell), Zaja (Shree Crooks), Rellian (Nicholas Hamilton, who resembles young River Phoenix), Vespyr (Annalise Basso), Kielyr (Samantha Isler) and Bo have been molded in Ben’s very specific image. They are survivalist philosopher kings - highly educated and extremely self-sufficient. Primitive though the ritual may be, these siblings are not. After the eldest, Bo (George MacKay), slaughters an animal, Ben tells him that he is a man now. We meet the family members in the midst of a hunt. “Captain Fantastic” is about the fantasy of being able to create a perfect world for your children, and the crushing realization that such control is ultimately impossible.īen (Viggo Mortensen) pursues this ideal in a particularly extreme way - by removing his family from society altogether and creating his own little utopia in the Pacific Northwest wilderness. Watch Video: Trailer: 'Captain Fantastic'
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