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Depression
Nearly 7.1% of adults in the U.S. have experienced depression in their lifetime, with women being affected at twice the rate of men. In fact, depression is now the leading cause of disability worldwide. However, despite its prevalence, depression is still commonly...
The Skinny on Hormone Therapy
Dealing with the symptoms of menopause is never easy. It may feel like you are plugging holes: treating symptoms that can include hot flashes or itching and staying on top of your emotional well-being."Literally one moment you’re fine, and then another, you feel like...
Depression Is Not A Natural Part of Aging
While depression can affect anyone regardless of age, the likelihood of suffering from depression increases with age, life experience, and gender. Recent studies have found that in adults, women experience depression at twice the rate of men because of the...
Endometriosis’ role in infertility: What you need to know
Endometriosis is a common, estrogen-based debilitating gynecological disease. It affects an estimated 10–15% of women during their reproductive years, mostly from the ages of 15 (or as early as a girl’s first period) to 49.The disease is defined as the presence of...
How Cancer and Cancer Treatments May Affect Your Hormones
Hormones are chemical messengers that tell other parts of your body what to do. Examples of hormones are insulin produced in the pancreas which regulates sugar levels, and sexual and reproductive hormones like estrogen and progesterone which are produced in the...
Osteoporosis Is A Preventable Disease – Here’s How to Lower Your Risk
Osteoporosis affects over 54 million Americans. But it’s not an inevitable part of aging. It’s also never too late or too early to begin protecting your bones and preventing this disease. Although it affects more women over the age of 65, osteoporosis can...
Managing Anxiety
No one enjoys feeling anxious. However, it is a natural response to stress that almost everyone feels at one time or another – but that doesn’t mean there is nothing you can do about it. Next time you are feeling uneasy or worried, follow one or more of these...
Five Things You Should Know About Sex After Babies
Whether you are thinking about having kids, are about to have a baby, or just gave birth to one, you may be wondering about sex after delivery. After having a baby, how long should you wait before having sex? Will it feel different? Does it affect a couple’s desire to...
Hypo vs Hyper Thyroidism
Are you not feeling like yourself lately? Do you seem more tired than normal or have you noticed a change in your skin and hair? Is your scale displaying a number you have never seen before? There could be many different reasons for each of these symptoms on their...
Your Last Child Is Leaving for College – Are You Ready for Life as An Empty Nester?
Sending your kids off to college is an exciting time, for them and for you. They’ve made it to the next step into young adulthood. As you watch them pack up their room, clothes, trinkets they can’t live without, you might get a little sad, or a lot sad.Yes, you’ll...
Exercise is the Key to Staying Young, but What’s the Best Type of Exercise After 40?
As we age, several things happen. We begin to lose muscle mass and strength, our bones decrease in density, our cognitive functions (memory, judgment, learning ability…) and heart health can all begin to decline slowly beginning in our 30s and that can continue...
No Fear: Preventing, Treating, and Managing Pelvic Organ Prolapse
The idea of your organs protruding out of your body might sound like a scene from a bad horror movie but the truth of the matter is that it can happen to women as we age, and it doesn’t come with a lot of blood or gore. In fact, pelvic organ prolapse can sneak up on...
Can You Really Eat Happiness? 10 Nutrients to Boost Your Mood
Our brains have chemicals called neurotransmitters that send messages to other parts of our bodies and, work along with our hormones, regulate many bodily functions including mood and emotions.The neurotransmitters serotonin and gamma-Aminobutyric acid (GABA)...
Can Bladder Leaks Happen to Me?
Are you always running to the bathroom, or do you leak urine when you run, cough or sneeze? Bladder leaks affect 1 in 3 women over the age of 18. In the United States alone, approximately 18-20 million women have some form of bladder leaking at some time in their...
The Link Between Dehydration and Heart Disease
Water is the most important nutrient we can give our bodies. As adults, we’re made up of around 60-70% water, more for babies and less for older adults. Water is essential for the health of our cells, organs, and muscles to function properly. We literally can’t live...
Don’t Make Me Laugh or I Might Pee
35 million women in the US suffer from urinary incontinence most of whom experience stress or mixed incontinence. Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI) is the accidental urine leakage during extraneous action or movement. The risk of having incontinence increases...
Bathroom Confidential: The Skinny on Pelvic Floor Bowel Dysfunction
We rely on our bodies to automatically work for us; to breathe, to pump our blood, to fight infection, to process our food. And if there is one process that we prefer to have handled subconsciously, it is our bowel function. But when there is problem with our...
Vaginal Health
Vaginal health isn’t a topic that needs to be relegated to whispers in backrooms or only discussed when there is a problem with dryness, itching, soreness, smelliness…you get the point! Our vaginas define our femininity and deserve thoughtful consideration.It’s time...
Strengthening your Pelvic Floor
Have you noticed an increase in little “leaks” before reaching the bathroom? Do you feel an urgent need to visit the restroom several times a day? Is sex not as enjoyable as it once was? If you answered yes to any of these questions, it may be time to tone your...
Taking Back Your Bladder Control
How familiar does this sound? Laughing with friends: leak. Out to lunch: fifth trip to the bathroom. Coughing from a cold: leak. Stopping off somewhere new: first task scouting out the bathroom situation. If your little leaks and frequent bathroom trips are...
Keto vs Paleo – Crazy Fad Diets? Or a Way to Better Health?
Two very popular diets today are the Keto, or Ketogenic Diet, and Paleo, aka The Stone Age Diet.Neither of these diets are new, although their popularity has risen in the past few years. The Keto diet originated in the 1920s by researchers to treat children with...