Archive for the 'Women's Health' Category

Keeping Track of Fertility Cycles

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

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 […]

Estrogen - Separating Good from Bad

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

By Robin Reid
Estrogens are great hormones!  They are part of what make women feminine and different from men which I am sure most men are very happy about most of the time.  Estrogen has 400 or more important functions in the body and is needed for optimal health for men and women.  Things like:
-          Maintaining […]

Herbs for PMS and Peri-Menopause

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

`By Marilyn Zink
As women get older and closer to menopause, they experience a variety of symptoms in their bodies – symptoms that can make life unpleasant and sometimes downright difficult.
These symptoms include; heavy periods, forgetfulness, fatigue, insomnia, headaches as well as symptoms like bloating associated with menstruation.
There are a number of herbs that can help […]

Healing for Men and Women

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

By Marilyn Zink
Hormone mimicking substances are leaching out of plastics, affecting food and affecting our health.
Our bodies are continually bombarded with ‘xenoestrogens,’ the hormone micmickers, dioxins that act like estrogen in the body which are found in processed foods, pesticides, plastics and pharmaceuticals as well as personal products.
Victoria naturopath Dr. Neil Mckinney says the bisphenol […]