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How Menopause Can Affect Your Endometriosis
It is no secret that when you have endometriosis, you may have a hard time being received, diagnosed, and treated in the healthcare system. Most accounts by women who suffer from the debilitating pain that comes with endometriosis hold that it can be years before a proper diagnosis is given, mostly due to medical practitioners […]
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How To Treat Your Body With Radical Acceptance
Many women spend their entire lifetimes bombarded with messaging – from the media, peers, and even well-meaning friends – encouraging them to alter their appearances to fit mainstream beauty standards. Whether it’s as advert as the “heroin-chic” advertisements that were in every glamorous magazine throughout the 1990s or a colleague sharing a low-cal lasagna recipe, […]
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What Early Menopause Taught Me about Femininity & Self-Worth
Menopause is a hurricane that strikes women in their forties and fifties. Imagine my horror when the gynecologist said it would hit me after two years! 34 is too young for menopause, right? Oh well. I did see it coming. Before the diagnosis, I did a fair amount of research, and my symptoms indicated that […]
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Not Your Mother’s Gym
If you haven’t hung out at a gym or fitness center lately, it’s time for another look. We still have a long way to go, but many gyms are changing in ways that make them safer, more welcoming spaces for women in midlife. Here are a few pleasant surprises that gyms have in store for […]
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Testosterone Deficiency in Perimenopausal and Menopausal Women
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) is now routinely prescribed for women suffering adverse effects during perimenopause and menopause. What HRT doesn’t address is the decline in testosterone production. That’s right, the hormone that is often considered to be male is produced in females too, albeit at a much lower level. According to Newson Health, three times […]
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The Book that Changed How I View Midlife
After popping out my second and final baby, I sunk into a deep depression. Through tears one afternoon, I tried to explain to my husband what was circulating in my brain. “I’ve hit all the highs,” I moaned, “All that’s left is for me to get old and die. There is nothing left to look […]
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How Pets Are Therapeutic For Women Experiencing Menopause
Scientific research has proven what most of us already know—that pets are good for our physical and mental health. But what about the benefits of pet ownership during menopause? The “change of life” brings numerous challenges, including depression, anxiety (intensified with the onset of hot flashes), insomnia, rapid mood swings, and overall discomfort. This leaves […]
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Can you get pregnant during Perimenopause?
“Yes, You Can Still Get Pregnant While Perimenopausal” It is no secret that as you age, it becomes more challenging to conceive naturally; this is where the term biological clock comes from. Your body is full of cells that work on some form of the internal clock; this internal clock regulates the function of your […]
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Bioidentical Hormone Therapy: What is it, and how can it help women to feel more balanced?
As a woman, we frequently feel out of balance and uncomfortable due to first having our periods and then peri-menopause and finally menopause. The hormones in our bodies constantly shift, causing us to gain weight and feel cranky or tired. But what if there was a method to measure and rebalance these unstable or dwindling […]
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Keep Your Posture Healthy in Midlife
When I was much younger, nothing pained my heart like seeing older adults struggle with their posture or movement. It made me scared of aging. How do you look so fit and great at a young age, only to start having a not-so-good posture in midlife? Over time, I started seeing other people in their […]
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10 Things You Can Do Now To Age Gracefully
Aging gracefully is all about staying young at heart. Of course, there are plenty of common sense things you can do now to reduce the signs of aging, such as staying hydrated, avoiding nicotine, and limiting alcohol intake. Stress is also a significant factor in aging, so daily meditation is a simple way to calm […]
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Why Can’t Menopause Be Treated Like Pregnancy?
Suppose you’ve been through a pregnancy since the invention of the internet. In that case, you’ve probably found yourself going down the rabbit hole of week-to-week progress of the baby growing inside you, rich with details about the baby’s size (a grain of rice! a pea! a walnut!) and what’s happening to your body. There […]
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Pelvic Organ Prolapse – A Condition You May Not Know You Have
There is a women’s health condition that is so rarely talked about that many women suffering from it do not even know that they have it. Vague symptoms like low back pain, discomfort or a feeling of pressure in the vagina, urinary issues, constipation, and painful sex may be brushed off as a normal part […]
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