Menopause Muscle Loss: Why Lifting Heavy Isn’t Optional A woman came into my office last month frustrated that she “looked the same” on the scale but felt weaker than she had in years. She could not open jars. Stairs left her winded. Her doctor told her that was just aging. It is not just […]
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Hormone Therapy Bone Density: The 69% Difference A patient came to me last year after a bone density scan flagged early bone loss at 54. Her gynecologist had never mentioned hormone therapy bone density protection as an option. Not once, in the ten years since her periods stopped. Instead, her doctor told her
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Perimenopause Insulin Levels Predict Your Hot Flashes A patient told me last month that her hot flashes started at 44, years before any of her friends. She wanted to know why. Her doctor shrugged it off as bad luck, genetics, nothing worth investigating. Nobody had checked her perimenopause insulin levels, and that omission
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Menopause Dementia Risk: What Your Brain Scan Would Show A patient sat across from me last month describing the same three symptoms so many women bring in: word-finding trouble, a foggier memory, a sense that her brain just was not as sharp as it used to be. Her doctor had already run the
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