Category: Health & Fitness

Navigating Menopause with Poise and Humor  I wish I’d had this book when I was going through menopause! It would have validated all I was feeling and given me some inventive ways of coping with the inevitable changes looming on the threshold of female maturity. In her memoir, Meno-What?  D.G. Kaye speaks frankly about the Read more…

00:0000:00 Dr. Clarissa Hughes is the CEO and founder of The Little Breathing Space and an accredited mindfulness coach & the author of The Mindful Menopause: The Secret to Balance, Vitality and Clarity Through the Change joins eHealth Radio and the Female Health & Health & Wellness Coaching Channels. Listen to interview with host Eric Read more…

Menopause brings a plethora of unpleasant symptoms, from hot flashes to mood swings to weight gain. The drastic hormonal changes you experience create a ripple effect throughout your entire body – including your skin. As estrogen levels in your body decrease, collagen and elastin production taper off. Without these essential proteins, your skin grows thinner Read more…

Chemicals called ‘endocrine disruptors,’ found in everything from soap to plastics, have already been linked to rising cancer levels and fertility problems. Now, new research out of Washington University has identified 15 of these chemicals, and found that women with the highest levels of them in their bodies experienced menopause two to four years earlier Read more…

35 Symptoms Of Menopause – 8 signs symptoms menopause | menopause – sharecare, For 85 percent of women, menopause can really heat things up. the exact cause of hot flashes is unknown, but experts think low estrogen triggers a malfunction in the area of the brain that controls body temp.. Hormone creams ease menopause symptoms Read more…

Can menopause cause your fibroids to disappear? Find out if and how the changes in your body during menopause can be of benefit to you.… This content was originally published here.

Women with periods spend decades dealing with their bloody companions, whether that’s by maintaining a cabinet full of tampons or using birth control to help manage painful menstruation symptoms. Periods can show up during vacations, important work events, when you’re out with friends; they can be heavy, light, short, or lingering. Basically, they can range Read more…

I have shared with you my experiences how thin and worried women often have lower bone mass and tend to lose more bone during the menopausal transition. But there is still much we can learn about this connection. In fact, I have become so interested in this phenomenon that I recently began my own “Thin Read more…

Besides humans, the species presently known to experience menopause are on the whole toothed whales – belugas, narwhals, killer whales and short-finned pilot whales. The new study, by the Universities of Exeter and York and the Center for Whale Research, suggests menopause has evolved independently in three whale species. The new investigation, by the colleges of Read more…

Poor and disrupted sleep are common symptoms of menopause. Insomnia, and changes to typical sleep patterns, are often an early signal of a woman in perimenopause, who is experiencing changes to estrogen, progesterone and other that influence sleep.  So many of my patients cope with other symptoms of menopause that affect sleep. But it’s not always easy Read more…

​​​​​If you’re a woman in her 40s or 50s, you’ve probably given some thought to how perimenopause and menopause might affect your . It’s a topic that comes up in conversation with my patients quite a bit. Sleep affects every part of your life, and has an incredibly broad influence over your health. When thinking Read more…