Your Menopause and Hot Flash Troubles
Is menopause to be blamed for female sexual dysfunction or frigidity? What role does it play in this common problem? First of all, it’s important to understand that frigidity is caused by a lot of things that both the woman and the man may not be aware of. To improve their sex lives, the couple [...]
Physiologically speaking, hot flushes are the body’s reaction to a decreased supply of estrogen. Typically this occurs when a women approaches menopause. Every woman’s experience of this important life change is different, unpredictable and highly individual and they all follow their own pattern. In some production of estrogen decreases gradually, producing few flushes. In others, [...]
Most women in their menopausal stage go through hot flashes which is by far the most recurrent symptom of menopause. In the United States alone, two-thirds of women are going through hot flashes throughout menopause. A hot flash which happens to be also known as a hot flush is a passing sensation of heat which [...]
As a doctor, I love being able to refer people to good supplements for their ailments if they would rather not take some expensive medication with potential negative side effects or go through a long, expensive medical treatment. This of course applies to the patients I have that suffer from menopause as well. After gathering [...]
The menopause or a woman’s change of life is a perfectly normal event which occurs in the mid or late forties. It signifies the end of the female reproductive period of life which commenced at adolescence in the early teens. There are several misconceptions about menopause. Many women at this time feel that they are [...]
DHEA is in the news a lot these days as one of the solutions for hot flashes and menopause, among many other things as well. It is sometimes seen as a magic pill that can cure just about anything. The symptoms of menopause such as hot flashes, night sweats, fatigue and insomnia are serious for [...]
When many women first start the symptoms of menopause, they sometimes feel as if they are going crazy. This is really understandable, since the changing hormones in a woman’s body have a direct affect on her mental as well as her physical health. Let’s find out what ways the two are connected. The fluctuations [...]
What is happening to me? You feel your heart begin to race. You experience some combination of sweating, nausea, dizziness, anxiety, headache, weakness, or a feeling of suffocation. A sudden, intense, hot feeling flushes your face and upper body and you begin to perspire, a little or a lot. You may feel a chill at [...]
Post menopausal bleeding can understandably cause alarm to most women experiencing it. If you’re one of them, remember that it’s a common enough symptom to affect as much as 30% of post menopausal women. Still, it doesn’t mean that you can just leave it be. The absence of menstruation for at least 12 months signals [...]
Over the past years, I’ve developed a variety of herbal supplements that effectively relieve menopausal symptoms. Some are delicious teas; others are blends of liquid extracts. In some of the herbal supplements, I recommend using tinctures, which are liquid herbal extracts, because I believe they act more quickly, are more potent, and generally offer better [...]