Have you noticed a decrease in your libido? Are you experiencing hot flashes, insomnia, or anxiety? Are your periods changing: cycles becoming irregular or have they stopped altogether? The symptoms I’m describing are very common complaints during the peri-menopause transition to menopause- a time when your hormone levels are fluctuating or as a patient of …
Continue Reading15 top medical organizations agree on hormone therapy use.
A statement was released recently from the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, the North American Menopause Society, and the Endocrine Society regarding the use of hormone therapy for symptomatic menopausal women. Over the past 10 years, there has been a lot of confusion among experts regarding hormone therapy which led many women to believe it …
Continue Reading“The Female Brain.”
The Female Brain, by Louann Brizendine is definitely worth reading. Brizendine completed her degree in Neurobiology at UC Berkeley, graduated from Yale School of Medicine and did her internship and residency at Harvard Medical School. She founded the Women’s Mood and Hormone Clinic in 1994 and continues to serve as the clinic’s director. The Female …
Continue ReadingThe estrogen conversation.
OK, gal pals. You know, I’m not a doctor. So this is not a recommendation. But I am in a tizzy over the recent article from the NY Times Magazine on April 18, 2010 on estrogen replacement in perimenopausal or early menopausal women. The article is called The Estrogen Dilemma, written by Cynthia Gorley. The …
Continue Reading“Sex and the City” sparks interesting commentary — if nothing else — among reviewers.
OK, so by now you’ve all read the reviews of SATC2 and, sadly, it has become the punching bag of movie critics around the world. But this piece from www.womenandhollywood.com is fascinating in its review of, well, the reviewers. Melissa Silverstein writes that the movie’s shortcomings have served as a conduit for a “pent up …
Continue ReadingWomen’s sexuality changes through life.
Don’t we know it? What you loved when you were 18 might be totally different than what gets you going at 30 and may be completely different than what turns you on at 45. Different life experience make us appreciate new things, new images may become imbedded in our brains, we may become more experimental …
Continue ReadingAnd the survey says……Sex!
Why is it that we need a survey to prove that women are interested in sex? And when we get the data, why is everyone so surprised at the results? A new online survey asked 500 women aged 35 to 49 about their interest in sex, and whaddaya know, 76% of women are “interested in …
Continue ReadingBioidentical hormones.
There is so much confusion and misinformation when it comes to “bioidentical hormones.” Let me see if I can set the record straight. “Bioidentical hormones” does not mean that the hormones are “organic.” “Bioidentical hormones” does not mean that the hormones are “natural.” “Bioidentical hormones” does not mean that the hormones are “not really hormones.” …
Continue ReadingTo use hormones or not to use hormones…
I get asked this all the time by perimenopausal and post menopausal women. And my answer always is…“It depends.” Once upon a time women used to have to suffer with hot flushes, memory loss, loss of libido and sleep disturbances. Then along came the hormone therapy like a white knight on a horse and made …
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