My Menopause Magazine – Mental Health

For most people, elevating themselves to a higher level is extremely challenging. It would be great if we could just buy a ticket, get a pilot to take us down a paved runway, lift off and achieve a new altitude. In my experience, life doesn’t work that way. Getting ourselves to the next level is much more like climbing a […]

At a recent meeting of North American Menopause Society I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Pauline Maki, a professor of Psychiatry/Psychology at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She talked to me about how women can improve their memory and cognition in menopause and perimenopause with the use of estrogen. Dr. Maki discussed how hormones like the ones that […]

We know too much sugar is bad for our waistline.  Now a new study from Mayo Clinic and reported in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease has shown that the people over 70 who ate the most carbohydrates relative to protein and fat approached being 4 times greater risk of developing mild cognitive impairment, which is a precursor to Alzheimer’s Disease. […]

Multiple sclerosis (or MS) is a chronic and often disabling disease. What makes it so challenging for people is that it attacks the central nervous system (CNS), which includes the brain, spinal cord, and optic nerves. For some people, the symptoms can be mild, and the person only has to deal with numbness in the limbs. But sometimes it can […]

If you live to be 90 you will have slept about 30 years of it. Was it a waste of time? Why would we evolve this way if it were totally unproductive? But fear not. You are not squandering 1/3 of your life. Au contraire. According to new evidence, sleep is actually ensuring that the other 2/3 of your life […]

Most of us make New Year’s resolutions. A third of us will break them before the end of January and four out of five will break them eventually. In one survey by Franklin Covey only 23% actually successfully achieve their New Year’s resolutions. With such dismal outcomes, why do we make them at all?  We’d like to do better but […]

Air travel may be fast and convenient, but for many of us, it can be uncomfortable and restrictive due to cramped cabins and sardine-like seating. Franci Cohen, a personal trainer, certified nutritionist, exercise physiologist and creator of Spider-Bands® offered the following tips for comfortable flying, to help you make the most of your next airplane trip by helping you stay […]

You can learn a lot from a garden. Prepare the soil, space plants, thin them out once they grow and weed, weed, weed. It’s amazing how that same philosophy helps us limit stress in our lives. Begin by preparing a list of everything you have to do today. Arrange them in priority from first to last. Focus on the top three. […]

Who are you really; a princess, a ballerina, Wonder Woman, a pirate, witch, goddess, a favorite movie star, or a monster? So often we don our masks and become whomever we want, or maybe someone we think we really are. What aspect of yourself will you be expressing? One year we were two geisha girls in tight kimonos and white […]