Hump Yoga – How to maintain mindfulness and focus amidst distractions

Aging, Brain Fog, General Health, Memory, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Music and Medicine, Yoga

Do you do yoga? It’s a wonderful practice that can help you both physically and emotionally. Though I’ve co-written A Woman’s Book of Yoga about Kundalini yoga, I’m now learning a new form of yoga called mindful hatha yoga. {Click here to hear...

Discover How and When Menopause Impacts Sex Drive

Menopause, Sexuality

It’s not surprising that both menopause and age can cause changes in sex drive. Have you noticed a change in yours? Worry and confusion about how menopause might impact sex is a pretty common concern for women, especially in midlife. A groundbreaking study in the...

My Hardest Question…

General Health, Menopause, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Uncategorized

As a menopause expert, I get asked a lot of difficult questions. Recently, I was asked a really hard one, and at first I was stumped. Here’s the question. I wonder if you can answer it? Click Here to listen to Dr. Mache narrate over an original soundtrack. When...

Lessons Learned From A Raisin

Memory, Menopause, Mental Health, Mindfulness, Music and Medicine, Stress, Uncategorized

Most people like raisins. They pop a small handful into their mouth and enjoy them for a moment. Maybe pop in another small handful or repeat a few more times.   As part of a mindfulness course I’m taking, we did an exercise that created a different raisin...

Am I Too Young To Be In Menopause?

Early Menopause

One of the myths about menopause is that it happens when you’re older. Women in their thirties and early forties aren’t usually thinking about menopause. It’s not on their radar. So when symptoms like having no energy, brain fog, sensitive bladder,...

Three Words Changed Everything…

Cancer, Exercise, healthy eating, Music, Nutrition, Sleep

I remember it like it was yesterday. It was five years ago, almost exactly. I was waiting with my wife, Sharon in her doctor’s office. After a brief conversation, he got to the point of the visit. (Click here for an audio version of me narrating this post over a...

The Memory Museum – Sometimes we attach value to objects based on when acquired

Aging, Alzheimer's Disease, General Health, Uncategorized

Click Here to hear this post narrated by me over a background of my original music. My mother is a collector. At 92 her memory is still good, but occasionally a fact or two might slip away. But she has a technique to counter that. I call it “tagging.” She...

Do You Really Want to Be Healthy and Happy?

Mental Health, Stress

By: Ed & Deb Shapiro Do you want to be well? Really? Think about it, about what it would be like to have nothing to complain about? To have nothing special about you? We have to be honest. Are we ready to have no specific reason why people should pay us attention?...

The Latest Issue of The Hot Years Magazine is on the Newsstand!

General Health, Heart Disease, Menopause, Uncategorized

Enjoy the latest issue of The Hot Years Magazine! Subscribe F*ree at HotYearsMag.com. Click on title to view here....

Estrogen and Belly Fat – Discover estrogen’s role in Jelly belly

Diet & Nutrition, Estrogens, Menopause, Weight Control

Do you think estrogen causes belly fat? Are you worried jelly belly in inevitable. Belly fat and menopause go hand in hand for many women – but it doesn’t have to be that way.   And the confusion about the impact of estrogen on weight adds to the...