Keeping Healthy Habits We all know that March is a month filled with Spring Breaks and road trips galore, but whether or not you’re hitting the road this month, we’ve got a few tips to help keep you on track for bathing suit season! Tip #1: Pack healthy snacks! It’s a whole lot
By Ellen Dolgen – Approximately 70 million Americans suffer from digestive issues.[i] That’s crazy! Afflictions range from Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) to Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), and from celiac disease (the inability to process gluten) to acid reflux (GERD). Even certain cancers and lactose intolerance fall into this category of
By Ellen Dolgen, a Health and Wellness Advocate, Menopause Awareness Expert, Author, Speaker, and Health Blogger – Have you noticed that often you can’t seem to grab a memory or a thought? Do you look at your dear friends and children and blank out on their names? Is your refrigerator
Well, the holidays are officially over. Many of us have spent the last week or so removing holiday decorations, and dreaming up how we can possibly lose the five-to-ten pounds we’ve accumulated thanks to a never-ending supply of eggnog and sugar cookies. (Ugghhhh….). The end of the holidays signify a
Submitted by Hugh Woodward – Houston, TX – Hormones drive many aspects of our lives: how we feel, energy levels, mood, muscle tone, fat, sleep, sex drive, how productive we are and more. Many of the unpleasant signs we are getting older are driven by declining hormone levels as we
By Ellen Dolgen – September is Menopause Awareness Month! We’re so glad there’s a month to bring attention to the needs of perimenopausal and menopausal women. At ellendolgen.com we do this all year long and will continue to make sure you have the information you need to take care of yourself, even
By Dr. Marina Johnson – Menopause simply means the end of a woman’s ability to bear children. In 1900 the average age of menopause was 51 just like it is today BUT in 1900 the average life expectancy for a woman was 50! Women in the 1800’s often died in
By Kelley Conn0rs – The ME in menopause is a journey, or as best-selling author, Gail Sheehy, might say, a passage. Only there are distinct differences from that original publication back in 1976 when Ms. Sheehy was in her late 30’s, and first wrote about the midlife “crisis” as passage
By Ellen Dolgen – When I was a little girl, I used to envy princesses like Snow White and Sleeping Beauty for their charm, their beautiful voices and their ability to communicate with animals. When I entered perimenopause, I started to envy them for a different reason — those brats
By “E” – Menopause is the great equalizer. It doesn’t care what your occupation is, which political party you identify with, what your religious background is, what the color of your skin is, or whether you are in the 1% or 99% economically. Everyone in it is facing the same
By Dr. Angela DeRosa – The media is at it again…scaring women about hormones and doing it in a fashion that I would consider negligent. It seems every week there is a new article or publication claiming hormones are “bad” for women. While it appears from the headlines that these
By Tamekia Reece – It’s something many women both welcome and dread. Menopause. On one hand, it means no more hassles with monthly periods and premenstrual syndrome (PMS). On the other, menopause comes with its own symptoms, many of which women find difficult to deal with. Fortunately, there are things
By Elizabeth Martyn – If you’re a typical 50+ woman, you’ve probably noticed a shift in your body’s shape, away from the hourglass towards the straight-up-and-down. Around menopause, the body starts to lay down stores of fat right around the middle, and it’s then that the much-loathed midlife fat belly
It has been almost 10 years since the landmark large, preventive “Women’s Health Initiative” was released and caused an earthquake of an effect! Millions of women threw out their menopausal hormones. Many women needlessly suffered. Many midlife women felt fine. The women who suffered and were miserable were clearly women who needed hormone therapy
By Dr. Marina Johnson – Because every woman goes through menopause, it’s often not even considered a medical problem. In the past, women were often patted on the head and told “Honey, you’re getting older and you just need to accept it.” As an endocrinologist who’s specialized in women’s health
By E – It’s a cold winter night and the town is buzzing with holiday cheer. The lampposts are decorated with wreaths and red bows, doorways are adorned with just a bit of mistletoe, and the smell of pine trees and cinnamon fills the air. If, as the saying goes,
By Staness Jonekos – The baby boomers may have been the generation of the sexual revolution, but for many slamming into menopause, sex is the last thing on their minds! Both sexes can suffer from a declining libido as we age, but women don’t have a little blue pill to
By Tamekia Reece – Hot flashes, irritability, night sweats and other symptoms of menopause can make you feel downright miserable. Many women think the only relief is hormone replacement therapy (HRT). However, help may be right in your kitchen. Make these superfoods a staple in your diet to help ease
By E – If you’re in your 40’s or 50’s and you have kids in the house, you’re probably familiar with what I like to call “dueling hormones.” This is that ever-so-special time when mom is going through perimenopause and menopause, and her kids are going through puberty, all under
By Barbara Younger – You might think these pumpkins are men but they aren’t! They are Pumpkin Ladies who have pulled their hair back. And guess what? Each one is in the middle of the Roller Coaster Ride-Menopause! You didn’t think pumpkins went through menopause? Just ask these women: Hi
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