Infertility: The Child Who Might Have Been

Composer, Health Song, Music and Medicine

National Infertility Awareness Week begins today. It’s been 30 years since I performed the first in-vitro fertilization in Massachusetts, one of the first in the country. I wrote this poem then as a tribute to infertility patients and the invisible loss they...

Colonoscopy Song on Huff Post

Cancer, Composer, Health Song, Menopause, Music and Medicine, Music Composer

Please see my new blog on the Huffington Post. It’s about how a song can save your life.

Sodas Increase Heart Attack, Diabetes

Diabetes, Heart Attack, High Blood Pressure, perimenopause, Weight Control

Sodas were again in the news and this time for increasing the risk of heart attack and diabetes. You can see my blog post about this on FeedingAmerica.org. As you’ll see, cutting back on sodas or cutting them out altogether might be the most important health...

Jane Fonda TED Talk on Aging

Menopause, perimenopause

This is a great video on the topic of aging, or as Jane Fonda calls it, the third act. She discusses aging not as a period of decline, but of a period of possibilities. I think it is a great perspective.    

Having A Baby After 40

Diabetes

I’m often asked by women over the age of 40 my opinion on having a baby. Clearly it’s a personal decision by a woman and her partner. But I have gained a lot of wisdom and experience in this area, so here is my personal position statement on later...

Chinese Herbs Lower Hot Flashes

General Health, Hot Flashes, Menopause, perimenopause

Hot flashes are never pleasant and HRT is not always an acceptable choice. So what other options are there when those sudden feelings of heat with sweating and rapid heartbeat happen to women in perimenopause and menopause. A group of researchers in China randomly...

Menopause Brains Require Eating Healthy

General Health, High Blood Pressure, Memory, Menopause, Omega-3, Weight Control

If you really want a healthy brain in menopause and beyond, a recent study in the Neurology shows that you must eat healthy. It’s not just a single vitamin that causes brain power to dip to cognitive decline. Both good and bad brain health is caused in part by...

Stress & Sleep by Dr. Mache Top Huffington Post

General Health, Health Song, Music and Medicine, Music Composer, Sleep

It’s daylight savings and sleep can be a real issue for many people. Learn how stress and sleep are connected. To help with the problem, I created a music video to help people relax. I was really excited that my post was the featured blog today on the Huffington...

Sleep Attack? It may be Narcolepsy.

General Health, Narcolepsy, Sleep

A new article in the NY Times by Tara Parker Pope suggests doctors don’t diagnose narcolepsy. Narcolepsy is a nervous system disorder, not caused by mental illness or anxiety. It may be due to reduced amounts of a protein made in the brain called hypocretin. It...

Eating Fish is Good For The Menopause Brain

Diabetes, Menopause, Omega-3, Stroke

Fish not only travel in schools. Eating them helps keep your brain smart. Some of the earlier studies on the omega-3 fatty acids didn’t always find that fish oil was good for your brain because they depended on asking people to fill out questionnaires and people...