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The FDA Approves Novel Drug to Treat Moderate to Severe Hot Flashes Caused by Menopause. This is the title of a CNN article that has several misleading components. In fact, the entire article is loaded with misleading information that contributes to the confusion millions of women experience on a daily basis when it comes to menopause.

The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new type of drug to treat hot flashes and night sweats during menopause.

The article...

One of the biggest lies ever told by the Medical Establishment is that estrogen is bad for women, that it causes cancer, and that it should be kept low at all times. There is a general fear of estrogen that stems back generations if you ask anyone on the street, they would tell you that estrogen causes cancer. (Read my post entitled The Truth About Estrogen and Cancer ) I fell for this at the beginning of my career but eventually learned the truth with my own eyes. I have a unique...

Everybody knows estrogen causes breast cancer. The media reports about the Woman’s Health Initiative (WHI) have been abundantly clear. The message is estrogen causes breast cancer. But do we really know that, or have we just been told that? The fear of hormone replacement therapy (HRT), like the Sword of Damocles, looms over the head of all who dare use or prescribe estrogen replacement therapy. The frequent negative media reports on breast cancer as well as Black Box...

According to a report by the venture capital firm Female Founders Fund, there is a $600 billion opening for the business of menopause but I think it is more than that. The report stated that based on an average of $2,000 a year that the 1 billion women expected to be in menopause worldwide by 2025 spend on prescriptions, doctor visits, treatments, devices, and products to address symptoms like night sweats, loss of libido, fatigue, and difficulty concentrating. I believe the...

Before I meet with a potential hormone therapy patient, I review their chart and look through the paperwork to get an idea of what kind of “shape” they are in, hormonally speaking. The first two places I look is at their clinical indicator assessment questionnaire and their current labs. (The clinical indicator assessment is one of the tools we use in the hormone clinic, along with lab work, to determine the hormonal balance status of a woman.)

When I saw the...

One thing I found in my years of research is that you can find a study to support just about anything even when it comes to hormonal contraception use, depression, and suicide. One study from The American Journal of Psychiatry¹ entitled, Association of Hormonal Contraception With Suicide Attempts and Suicide concludes, “Use of hormonal contraception was positively associated with subsequent suicide attempt and suicide. Adolescent women experienced the highest relative risk.”...

I'm 38, my partner rolls his eyes and says I'm too young to go through perimenopause. Is this true?

He may be right that 38 is too young for perimenopause however over the past 20 years as a clinical hormone coach, I've seen the median age of perimenopause go down to where it is not unusual for women to experience Stage I symptoms in their late twenties and early thirties. (There are three stages of perimenopause.)

So what is the cause of this age decline? In order to answer that...

Every relationship you encounter is impacted by the relationship you have with yourself. Every person who comes into contact with you whether it’s your significant other, child, co-worker, friends, or any person you interact with on a daily basis will experience the person behind how you feel in that moment.

How you see yourself in this world and how you feel about yourself in general strongly impacts your relationship with others.

One of the biggest benefits of working in a...

Many women who come into the hormone clinic say they experience hot flashes and night sweats and ask me what causes them. Here is what I tell them...

When estrogen drops too low, the brain realizes estrogen is no longer high enough to protect the body and do its job of regulating all processes, so the adrenal gland kicks in to increase cortisol secretion to excess for added support.

This excess cortisol is enough to cause instability of the blood pressure, appearing as vacillating...