By Shalini Hitkari
As women enter midlife, they are met with a magnitude of new health-related challenges and changes. The most disruptive of these can be long, sleepless nights. Even though women entering this transitional period of life often require more sleep, many suffer from insomnia: difficulty falling asleep, trouble staying asleep or inadequate quality of […]
By Marilyn Zink
Women tend to deal with stress differently than men.
There are several signs that indicate a woman is going through stress and it’s time to do something about it.
Hormonal Imbalance
One of these is the hormonal aspect. Women who are stressed will often discover that their hormones are impacted, creating hormonal imbalances that affect their […]
By Denise Galbraith
Every woman experiences physical and emotional changes as a result of hormonal fluctuations. They tend to occur a week or so prior to actual menstruation then diminish as flow begins. Normally these should be mild and tolerable, but for many they are quite disruptive. Severe symptoms may be indicative of a serious underlying […]
By Marilyn Zink
I remember it clearly. I was probably about 12-14 years old at the time. I had a horse that I kept on a farm near our home.
I had to pay the rent so I knocked on the door of the farmhouse. When the farm wife answered, I was mesmerized.
Not because I lacked the […]
Charting is a useful tool for monitoring a woman’s fertility cycles.
Many women note on the calendar when their period starts, but unfortunately too few women understand the signs and symptoms of ovulation.
It really is quite easy to identify ovulation; there is a clear, stretchy, and very slippery fluid produced in the cervix which is quite apparent on the […]