Early Menopause, Hot Flashes, Hot Flashes, Menopause, Painful Sex, perimenopause, Sexuality, Weight Control
National Menopause Awareness Month is here again and to honor it, I want to tell you how to know if menopause is near. You probably know about menopause. Menopause is defined by doctors as one year after your last period and on average comes at age 53 years and 3...
Depression, Early Menopause, Hot Flashes, Menopause, perimenopause, Premature Menopause, Sleep, Stress
In honor of September is Menopause Awareness Month, today’s blog is on Menopause and Your Mental Health. I’m sure you know women who reach menopause and tip into a mental mess. Estrogen usually gets the blame; levels drop in the years leading up to...
Early Menopause, General Health, Hot Flashes, Menopause, perimenopause, Premature Menopause
In addition to poor sleep, hot flashes and low libido, there is another health issue that a woman with low estrogen in or near menopause needs to discuss with her doctor – glaucoma. A new review article in the journal Menopause shows that low estrogen...
Hot Flashes, Menopause, perimenopause, Premature Menopause
Women are now 51% of all high paying and professional and related occupations and their numbers are growing. As their ages increase, more and more women in menopause and beyond are working. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics reports 68 million women make up half the US...
Early Menopause, Hot Flashes, Hot Flashes, Menopause
If you are in menopause and sitting on your bottom waiting for your hot flashes, mood swings and irritability to get better, it’s time to get up and start exercising. A study in the journal Menopause investigated 176 symptomatic women in menopause age 45 to 63...
Breast Cancer, Hot Flashes, Menopause
It’s new years but hot flashes get old in a hurry. Estrogen can work for most women with low estrogen, but many women can’t take it and others just prefer an alternative route. Fortunately, there are things you can do that help reduce the hot flashes for...
