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Posted in Botanicals, Dietary Supplements, Fatigue, General, Menopause, Mind and Emotional, Nutrition, Stress on Apr 26th, 2021
Difficulty sleeping/insomnia is one of the most common issues women face and is one of the most common complaints of women going through the menopause transition and the most common sleep disorder in the general population. Insomnia is defined as a sleep complaint that occurs at least three times per week for at least 3 […]
Posted in Botanicals, Dietary Supplements, Endocrine Health, General, Green Tea, Menopause, Menstrual Cycle, Vitamin D on Mar 5th, 2021
Uterine fibroids are the most common benign tumor in the uterus. Most do not cause any symptoms and don’t require any investigation or treatment. But, for some women, maybe about a third, women with uterine fibroids, also called uterine myomas may need a therapy—either to control abnormal uterine bleeding, reduce the size due to pressure […]
Posted in Botanicals, Dietary Supplements, Fatigue, General, Insights, Mind and Emotional, Nutrition, Rhodiola on Feb 17th, 2021
There has been much talk about resilience these last few years, but it’s need has been even more apparent this last year since March 2020. Resilience can be defined briefly as capable of withstanding shock without permanent deformation or rupture or tending to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change. I am mindful […]
Posted in Botanicals, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Depression, Dietary Supplements, Endocrine Health, Fatigue, General, Nutrition, Prevention, Rhodiola on Dec 17th, 2020
Rhodiola has long been categorized as an adaptogenic plant, the same category as Ashwagandha, Panax ginseng, Schisandra and others. These plants are known for their ability to support the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis and by doing so, foster a healthy physiologic response to stress and the release of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH), cortisol and beta-endorphins. Rhodiola also […]
Posted in Dietary Supplements, Endocrine Health, Endometriosis, Menstrual Cycle, Nutrition, Vitamin D on Sep 28th, 2020
We have only a few studies on natural ingredients in endometriosis. I was hoping to see a positive result with this study, but unfortunately, that was not the case. This study was designed to determine if vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acid supplementation improved endometriosis related pelvic pain in adolescents. Women aged 12-25 with surgically […]
Posted in Botanicals, Depression, Dietary Supplements, Menopause, St. John's wort on Aug 14th, 2020
Perimenopause and menopausal symptoms can include hot flashes/nightsweats, insomnia, anxiety, depression, cognitive changes, decline in sexual desire, and skin and mucus atrophy including the eyes, mouth, vulva, vagina and our general skin thinning, wrinkling and drying. That list might seem long enough, but there can be others. The good news is that not all women […]
Posted in Botanicals, Dietary Supplements, Endocrine Health, Menopause, Turmeric on Jul 20th, 2020
The most common symptom women experience in perimenopause and menopause, is hot flashes— day and/or night. They are also called vasomotor symptoms, which are a sudden feeling of heat, burning and/or sweating with a slight increase in body temperature due to increased metabolic rate and vasoconstriction in the periphery. These fluctuating levels of estrogen, and […]
Posted in Bone Health, Calcium, Dietary Supplements, General, Nutrition, Pregnancy, Prevention, Vitamin D on Apr 6th, 2020
The current recommendation for prenatal vitamin D supplementation is 400 IU to 600 IU per day. But could higher doses be any better for the child of a pregnancy? In a randomized trial, higher doses of vitamin D supplementation was analyzed as part of a study in Denmark involving 623 women and their offspring (584 […]
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