Bioidentical Estrogens, estrogen patches, EstrogenBook, Estrogens, Hormone Balance, Hormone health, Hormones, Hot Flashes, Menopause, Menopause treatment, Premature Menopause
If you’re like most women and many doctors, understanding estrogen and hormone therapy is confusing. And even though we now know that estrogen is safe and beneficial for the vast majority of women, a lot of women are left afraid and avoiding estrogen because of...
Bioidentical Estrogens, estrogen cream, estrogen patches, EstrogenBook, Estrogens, Menopause, Menopause treatment, Uncategorized
Are you currently using topical estrogen, or thinking of using a topical estrogen cream, patch or pellets? These forms of estrogen are becoming more commonly used and something I’m often asked about by my patients and by women whose doctors are less familiar...
Early Menopause, EstrogenBook, General Health, Hormone Balance, Hysterectomy, Menopause, menopause symptoms, Premature Menopause
Is menopause the same for natural and surgical menopause? In a word, “No.” These are two very different experiences. As I write in my best selling book, The Estrogen Fix: Natural or spontaneous menopause: When a woman’s ovaries naturally stop...
General Health, Work Life Balance
What do you do in the last 15 minutes before work ends? It’s been a long day. You glance at the clock and see it’s 15 minutes till time to go and you want to wrap things up. Of course, if you start to think about it, the day won’t end for a lot...
Early Menopause, General Health, Hormone Balance, Hormone health, Infertility, Menopause, menopause symptoms, perimenopause
Is perimenopause sneaking up on you? Perimenopause causes infertility and for many women, the first sign of perimenopause is difficulty getting pregnant. But for others, symptoms start happening that at first are hard to explain. Its not uncommon for women to...
Brain Fog, Early Menopause, EstrogenBook, Estrogens, General Health, menopause symptoms, perimenopause, Premature Menopause, Uncategorized
You want to start a family and you’re 30 something years old. No problem. Right? You’ve got years and years of childbearing ahead of you, so what’s the rush? During the first part of my career as a leading fertility expert, I saw thousands of...
Aging, General Health, Menopause, Menopause treatment, Women's Health, Yoga and Menopause
We all know the proverb, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” But elderly farmers in a remote section of China are doing their part to change this old-age adage to, “Yoga each day keeps the doctor away.” A recent story covered in the NY Times (Sui-Lee...
Aging, General Health, Menopause, Menopause treatment, Mental Health
I hope you had a wonderful July 4th! What did Independence Day mean to you? Our country’s independence began on July 2nd, 1776 when the Continental Congress voted in favor of independence from England. On July 4th, delegates from the 13 colonies adopted the...
Causes of Hot Flashes, General Health, Hot Flashes, Menopause, menopause symptoms, perimenopause, Premature Menopause, Women's Health
Hot flashes are the most common symptom of menopause; up to 80% of women have them and 100% wish they didn’t. They’re so synonymous with menopause that the magazine I edit is called The Hot Years. Click Here to get a Free Subscription Hot flashes due to...
Early Menopause, Estrogens, General Health, Hormones, Menopause treatment
Menopause is more common than infertility, pregnancy or cancer. It eventually affects every woman. By 2020, more than 50 million US women will be older than 51 years of age, which is the mean age of menopause. Yet the majority of women avoid menopause treatment...
