What’s Worse Than Hot Flashes?

Migraine Headaches

What’s worse than having hot flashes? Having hot flashes and migraines! And new evidence suggests that the two are connected and may be affecting women in a dangerous way.   Here’s What We Know Migraines affect more women than men Hormone imbalance...

What Your Menstrual Cycle Length Tells You About Vascular Disease and Estrogen

Estrogen and the Heart, menopause symptoms

Intro There is a lot of discussion about estrogen and its impact on the heart and vascular disease. Is it safe? Is it beneficial? Most of this discussion is related to the use of estrogen in menopause, a topic that is explained clearly and completely in my book, The...

What You Eat Can Lower Hot Flashes and Improve Menopause Symptoms

equol, Food As Medicine, Hot Flashes, Soy

If you’re struggling with hot flashes, you may have heard that soy was helpful in turning down the heat.  I’ve been writing about this for nearly 20 years and if you want to know exactly how soy works and easy to understand explanations of why soy is worth...

Hair Loss and Hair Thinning in Menopause: It’s Common but New Treatments Coming

Hair Thinning

The Problem Does your hairbrush ever look like a bone from a wooly mastodon? We hear a lot about hot flashes around menopause. But another menopause symptom affects about two-thirds of midlife women: hair thinning and hair loss. Combs and brushes full of hair. Circles...

Cannabis for Menopause Symptoms: Will it improve symptoms?

cannabis for menopause, cannabis for menopause symptoms

Cannabis is legal. It’s being used for all sorts of medical issues and conditions. But will cannabis improve menopause symptoms? A study from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada found that one in three women are using it near the time of menopause. Some...

Strength from Within – Remembering 911

Uncategorized

Twenty years ago when the World Trade Centers crumpled under the heat of thousands of gallons of burning jet fuel, it seemed like the world itself was tumbling down. Because everyone I knew was just as affected, what comfort there was often had to be found from within...

Menopause in the Workplace is Getting Attention…Finally

Menopause in the Workplace, working women, workplace issues, World Menopause & Work Day

Worldwide, there are 657 million women aged 45–59 and around half of them are in the workforce during their menopausal years.  Stated another way, half of the people in the workforce are women, and half of the women in the workforce are in perimenopause or menopause....

What Every Woman Should Know About Osteoporosis

Bone Health, osteoporosis

Bone health! Boring, right!? Better to worry about breast health; getting a mammogram and making sure you don’t have breast cancer. Well, that is really important. But as I tell my Menopause Coaching clients, if you are a healthy fifty year old woman, your just...

Letting Go of Negative Thoughts

Stress, Stress Reduction

Are you dealing with any negative thoughts right now that are weighing you down? Most people I know are. Negative thoughts take up a lot of time and energy. Maybe it’s time to let them go. Here’s a poem I wrote about doing just that.    I began...

Tired of Talking about Vaccinations? Read On.

health and wellness, HPV vaccine, Influenza vaccine, Tdap vaccine, Vaccines for Women, Who Needs a Vaccine

With all the talk about vaccinations to stop the current pandemic, a lot of people are forgetting that there are some very important other vaccines… and they are the ones that help keep them well for a number of serious illnesses.   The Advisory Committee on...