Aging, AMH, BRCA, Breast Cancer Treatment, Causes of Hot Flashes, Early Menopause, General Health, Hot Flashes, medication induced menopause, menopause symptoms, Menopause treatment, Mental Health, Premature Menopause, surgical menopause, Vaginal Dryness, VAGINAL PAIN
Menopause always comes with challenges. When you are 50ish, the symptoms come on gradually. But when you are younger and still have normal or relatively normal hormone levels, treatment causes an abrupt drop in those hormones, and that causes you to be catapulted into...
Breast Cancer, Estrogens, Painful Sex
The secret is out of the box – half of all menopausal women suffer from vaginal dryness or painful sex. And when women want to use a local estrogen on their private parts to ease the pain and heal the tissue, nothing could be safer. Yet the Federal Government requires...
Breast Cancer, Cancer, Early Menopause, Estrogens, Hot Flashes, Menopause, perimenopause
I recently returned from the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine where I had the opportunity to interview Richard Santen, one of the leading authorities on estrogen and breast cancer. Today I’d like to share with you information on...
Bioidentical Estrogens, Birth Control, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Estriol, Estrogens, Weight Control
Today I want to talk to you about something you probably have heard a lot about, and that’s bioidentical estrogens. You may be wondering what bioidentical estrogens are, and you may be wondering if they are really safe. Are they safer than the regular ones you get in...
BRCA, Breast Cancer, Cancer
At this year’s Annual Meeting of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology I interviewed Dr. Noah Kauff, Director of Ovarian Cancer Screening and Prevention, at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, to discuss who should receive genetic cancer...