It seems that most of us are aware that women begin to lose bone at a more rapid rate after menopause. We're pretty well-schooled in the fact that we need about 1200mg of calcium (1500 mg if not on hormone therapy), 600 mg of magnesium and at least 1000 IU of vitamin D3 daily in order to help our bodies continue to build bone and prevent... Read more
A large and growing amount of evidence on the benefits of vitamin D and the risks of its deficiency has been predominantly ignored until recent years. Vitamin D deficiency has very few obvious outward signs which may account for the lack of attention previously paid. Several years ago a nutrition expert I often consult with told me that, based... Read more
It seems to me that far too many health care providers are jumping to prescribe one of the "bone-building" drugs as the first response for any woman who shows any sign of decreased bone mass, even when they are far from having osteoporosis or even advanced osteopenia (the level of loss before osteoporosis). The drugs, the first of which was... Read more
The facts and the fiction...there are a lot of both. I, for one, am ready for the media to stop replaying various takes on the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) and alarming women with often erroneous, frequently skewed, stories based on that flawed study. The WHI released in 2002 investigated mostly older women (average age 64) who started... Read more
Well, the short answer is yes. The long answer has a few conditions and gets a bit more complicated.
Loss of libido (sex drive) remains a common, usually untreated symptom in postmenopausal women, even though decades of studies universally show that replacement of testosterone has a significant impact on a number of parameters, including desire,... Read more
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