Breast Cancer, Early Menopause, General Health, Hot Flashes, Menopause, Sleep, Stress
Hot flashes are never easy to treat, especially if you decide not to take estrogen and progesterone. And two recent possiblities for non-estrogen prescriptions failed to get FDA approval. Now a new study suggests that maybe all you need to do to lower hot flashes is...
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...
Cancer, perimenopause, Sexuality, Stress, Vaginal Dryness
There is good news for women who have early stage breast cancer and require treatment with radiation. Although fatigue is a common experience, only about 6% of women treated suffer from fatigue 1 year later. A new study of 218 Australian women with early stage breast...
Menopause, Narcolepsy, Sleep, Stress
If you feel you’re having a “sleep attack,” it could be narcolepsy. It isn’t caused by anxiety or a mental illness; it’s a nervous system disorder that happens to 1 in 3,000 Americans. Narcolepsy is caused by lower brain levels of a...
Composer, General Health, Hot Flashes, Menopause, Music, Music and Medicine, perimenopause, Sleep, Stress
Is getting enough sleep keeping you up at night? If so, here are seven sleep tips the Sandman approved. Sometimes simple lifestyle strategies and relaxing music go a long way to improving minor sleep disturbances, especially for women as they enter perimenopause and...
