New research strengthens the idea that estrogen therapy could help to prevent type 2 diabetes following menopause, after it identified the mechanisms by which the hormone helps to control blood sugar levels. In a study of ...
Continue readingDid you know that in many women there is an ANDROGEN DOMINANCE that sets in during Midlife? Yes! In fact, DHEA and Testosterone decrease the flairs of Auto-immune diseases and Allergies! This includes Autoimmune diseases like ...
Continue readingWe all knew our children would grow up... but we never expected many of the other challenges of midlife!
The cost of living continues to increase despite working harder; our parents are aging and need more help, our home seems increasingly more disorganized, and our free time feels like it has dwindled to almost nothing. Everything seems just a bit harder than it once seemed. And we question "How Did I Once Do it All?"
The truth is - it IS harder. The Hormones we once had that were running our brains and bodies smoothly and efficiently, exist now at only trace amounts ...
Continue readingProgesterone is our First Sex Hormone to Decline! And it starts declining years before you're ready! Did you know that Progesterone starts to literally plummet when we hit about 35 years old! .And if that's not enough ...
Continue readingEstrogen improves the elasticity of blood vessels, just as it improves the elasticity of your skin and vaginal tissue. When your heart pumps... Your blood vessels NEED to EXPAND. They expand by the elastic tissue that is inside ...
Continue readingDespite the high number of women experiencing problems related to vaginal dryness only a quarter of women with these problems actually seek treatment. It is still a "SILENT PROBLEM" that many people feel embarrassed to talk about to partners, friends and even their doctors.
Women spend a third of their lives in a post menopausal state and they need to make sure they maintain the QUALITY OF LIFE that they had before the menopause. Vaginal dryness does not need to be treated as an inevitable part of growing older – something can be done about ...
Continue readingBloating is pretty common starting in midlife and there are really quite a number of reasons that can be causing it. When it comes to hormones, bloating occurs because of lower Estrogen production.
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