If changes are inevitable in every life, and changes, even positive changes, add stress to our already stressful lives, why don’t we plan for change? Why don’t we take charge of those inevitable changes so that we can minimize disruption in our lives? More specifically, why do some women transition so smoothly through perimenopausal and…
In our earlier discussion about menopause we recognized that this transition, although marketed as a disease of crisis proportions by the pharmaceutical industry, is in reality a normal part of life. Cessation of ovulation and the concurrent decline in ovarian hormone production does not automatically initiate the myriad symptoms associated with menopause. Many women, in…
We spend so much time working with women’s hormone issues we sometimes neglect the role hormone balance plays in men’s health. Without the years of cycling changes women routinely experience and generally without overt short term changes in later life, most men take their hormones for granted (if they think about hormones at all). Much…