Real Women on Health meets up with Hay House emerging health and healing leaders! We have two super-dynamic on-line radio shows coming up with Emerging Next-Generational Leaders who are embraced by Hay House, the international leader in publishing self-help and motivational content at its first I Can Do It IGNITE! conference in San Jose on March 17-18. [...]
In our last on-line radio show on “Designing the Second Half of Life“, one of our callers described a common symptom of menopause known as ”brain fog”. After doing some research on this, here’s what I’ve discovered: 1. Estrogen replacement therapy is the first “remedy” you can consider if you don’t have a risk of [...]
How Do You Know When You’re Done Having Kids? Our real woman on health patient, Tracey, explained to us last week on our radio show that she wanted to be able to enjoy her two children – a boy and a girl – and with both her and her husband working, “we decided that [...]
I must have holiday jingles on my mind cuz they’re invading my mindspace even here on our blog. But, seriously, did you, in fact, know there are at least 17 forms of contraception today? And that several of these options can do more than just prevent pregnancy. I’ve recently learned about this one surgery-free option [...]
Have you noticed that today’s women are having fewer children today and working more? Seems like a correlation to me! The drop, in part, is due to the fact that more and more women choose to work and have to work to support their families. We question how “thin” we can spread ourselves without cheating [...]
“It is imperative that women do their homework when evaluating options for treatment of pelvic organ prolapse. Transvaginal mesh procedures play a pivotal role in preventing additional surgical intervention down the road but it is vital that they are performed by physicians who have been adequately trained,” said Sherrie Palm, Founder and President of the [...]
I stumbled on an interesting article in the New York Times titled “When Sex Leaves the Marriage” and, ironically, just this past weekend my girlfriends and I half-heartedly joked about the loss of libido as part and parcel of being over-50. The way the conversation went, I think we were talking about the sex-starved marriage [...]
Forty years ago, a group of twelve women banded together to dovetail on the women’s movement, and specifically in the area of women’s health and human rights. Their organization became known as the Boston Women’s Health Collective that then became a women’s health movement fueled by the book “Our Bodies, Ourselves”. We thank Judy and [...]
Look around at passengers on your commute, your teenage children or even your co-workers as casual screen swiping seems to be more the focus of smartphones these days than voice communication! But have you ever considered such applications to be more than just games or productivity tools? With more and more consumers turning to so-called [...]
The Uterine Health Companion is good medicine. Because it’s written from the perspective of a medical anthropologist with cross-cultural experience, it highlights how very skewed the Western medical view of the uterus really is. I highly recommend this book.” –Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom What if you found out that deep [...]