Tag Archives: hormone therapy

It’s a frustrating problem! The jeans you could easily slip into before menopause are now hard to button. You haven’t gained significant weight, but your waistline has thickened. An increase in abdominal fat after menopause is an issue many women face. [Read more]

If you have a low-functioning thyroid gland, you know how hard it is to lose weight, no matter how much you starve yourself or try exercise. [Read more]

While most commonly associated with male physical and functional characteristics, the hormone testosterone is present at much smaller levels in females as well. [Read more]

Hormone imbalances, when they occur, usually arise out of a combination of factors, including blood sugar problems, weight problems, stress and high body fat levels. Your lifestyle may affect many of these factors. Making a few simple changes to your life can help your hormones, and take you very far on the road to better health. [Read more]

If your weight loss efforts don’t seem as effective as you would like, it’s possible that it’s your hormones that are to blame. What follows are tips on how to get your hormones into weight-loss mode so that they help in, rather than get in the way of, your efforts. [Read more]

Menopause is often considered as a tricky stage in a woman’s life cycle. You experience hot flashes, nausea, vomiting, a feeling of bloating and insomnia, among others. [Read more]

Many women dread the menopause. Maybe you’ve been told horror stories about hot flashes, night sweats, migraines and loss of libido. Your mother or sister or friends have warned you that it might go on for years and years. Menopause starts to sound awful, so you begin to consider hormone replacement therapy (HRT). But then you read that HRT will give you cancer, or that you’ll be given artificial hormones instead of natural ones. What should you do? Of course the decision is yours, but here are some facts to help you make up your mind. [Read more]

Most people know who Suzanne Somers is. What you may not know is she is almost 70 years old. Amazingly, she looks years younger than her actual age. How does she do it? Here are four simple ways you can achieve “the look.” [Read more]

When people say life begins at 40, nobody points out to the women that they need to get in top shape! A lot of women in their 40s are going through emotional turmoil without any hope on the horizon.  The new saying should be “problems begin at 30.” The working woman. Now that she does […]

Low T, or low testosterone, is one of the more common health conditions that men will experience with age. According to a recent study out of the New England Research Institutes, it is estimated that a full quarter of men over the age of 30 show signs of Low T, but only about one in every 20 have clinical significant symptoms. [Read more]