Diet & Nutrition, General Health, Heart Attack, Heart Disease, Menopause, perimenopause, Premature Menopause
Your always hearing people talking about vitamins. The term comes from the words vital and amines – vitamins. These are substances that your body needs to live and be healthy. Vitamin D is the only vitamin that your body can make; the other vitamins must be...
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...
General Health, Nutrition, Weight Control
Here’s an article in USA Today that does a disservice to its readers. The title states that a study in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds no nutritional edge to organics over non-organic food. The two authors reviewed and compiled the results of 17 earlier...
Diet & Nutrition, General Health, Menopause, perimenopause, Premature Menopause, Weight Control
If you’re in menopause and overweight, would it matter if you diet continuously versus some of the time? What if you tried to loose weight for 5 weeks and then you took a break for 5 weeks and just tried not to gain weight for the next 5 weeks. A new study just...
Diet & Nutrition, Early Menopause, General Health, healthy eating, Memory, Menopause, Nutrition, Premature Menopause
Can you change how well your brain works during menopause by what you eat? A new study says yes – at least a little. African Americans, white, Chinese and Japanese women were followed during menopause and their diet was recorded as well as tests of their brain...
Early Menopause, Hot Flashes, Menopause, Sleep
With so many concerns about estrogen and menopause, many women either won’t or can’t take it. That’s why I’ve offered progesterone as a possible option to women in menopause for years. I think the risks are less and it works for many women. Now...
Menopause
There is increasing discussion about divorce in the over 50 couple group – because it is outpacing divorce in other age groups. While the overall divorce rate is declining since the 1980s, divorce among those over 50 is the highest ever – so called...
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...
