Shelley can be found at Shell Tells where she writes about family, society and dumbfounding human behavior. I’ve discovered there’s no good reason to excommunicate yourself from a fine dining experience just because you sweat like a pig in public. Menopause is at best inconvenient but it’s no reason to go hungry. I have a few tips that …
For more helpful tips and women’s health expertise, head to Dr. Allmen’s website, drallmen.com. This post was originally featured there. Over 13 years ago the results of the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) were announced, leading many health care professionals and women to question whether the use of hormone therapy for the treatment of menopausal symptoms like hot …
Dr. Allmen talks about women’s health and can help provide answers to many of your questions on her website drallmen.com. Bioidentical hormones (estrogen, progesterone and testosterone) are often called “natural” hormones, because they are chemically identical to the hormones that women make primarily in their ovaries. They are definitely not “natural”, however. Instead, like all …
November is Alzheimer’s Disease Awareness Month, so it is a perfect time to discuss the differences between normal age-related brain function changes and the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s disease. Does this sound familiar? You walk into your bedroom, stop and look around dumbfounded. “What did I come in here to get?” No idea. Maybe if …
If you are a menopausal woman, chances are pretty good that your sex drive has slowed down since your “roaring twenties and thirties”. Some of you will go so far as to say that you have no interest in sex whatsoever. There is a really good physiological reason for this decrease in interest. When …