Vertigo and Menopause: What’s the Connection?
Experiencing vertigo, whether for the first, second, or third time, can disrupt your day and raise a host of questions. Questions you may have spent time typing into search, asking…
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Menopause in the Workplace
Conversations about menopause are emerging in a critical space: the workplace. Menopause may be a time of great transition (the last one, at that), but for many women, it can…
How Phytoestrogens Can Provide Hot Flash Relief During Menopause
Hot flashes indicate approaching menopause as much, if not more, than the end of your monthly cycle. But menopause and uncomfortable symptoms do not need to go hand-in-hand. Thanks to…
What Is VMS?
Picture this: you are out with your friends shopping from store to store when suddenly you feel your face become red and you feel like you’re on fire. VMS (vasomotor…
What is VSM?
Not to be confused with VHS (remember those?), VSM stands for vulvovaginal symptoms of menopause. VSM might explain your vaginal and urinary tract concerns you might not have been associating…
What Women Need To Know About Diabetes
Diagnoses of type 2 diabetes are on the rise in the U.S. And, like many other conditions, diabetes can impact a woman’s health in disproportionate ways. Insufficient insulin or an…
The Most Overlooked Menopause Symptom – Fatigue
When it comes to menopause symptoms, hot flashes tend to get the most attention, but what about the often crushing fatigue that can accompany menopause? Close to 70% of women…
How To Manage Night Sweats
Night sweats are always uncomfortable, often unpredictable, and an invariably frustrating symptom of menopause that 50 to 75% of women suffer with. Currently, medical science doesn’t know the precise cause…
Vaginal Exercises For Pelvic Health
Between your pelvic organs and gravity lies a thin layer of muscles and ligaments called the pelvic floor. During physical exercise, coughing or sneezing, or pregnancy these muscles contract to…
The Lesser Known Symptoms of Menopause
What comes to mind when you hear the phrase, “menopause symptoms?” If you’re like most of us, you immediately think of hot flashes (and perhaps vaginal dryness). But what some…
Can A Woman Have An Orgasm After Menopause?
Let’s clear this up: Women can still reach an orgasm both during and after menopause. It’s a common misconception that once you enter menopause, you lose any ability to orgasm…
What Are The Symptoms Of Perimenopause?
Although premenopause is often used to refer to this time of transition, the proper medical term is perimenopause. Premenopause is the period of time during which women are in their…