Do you know the difference between when you start menstruating and when your body is trying to stop? When you start having periods the world is out to get you. Ask any teenager they’ll tell you. Everyone else is wrong and just not listening. Unfortunately, when our hormones slowdown, in both men and women, we…
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What is PMS? Premenstrual Syndrome a.k.a Prepare to Meet Satan. When it comes to PMS, almost every woman has something to say about it. Is it that common? Yes! At least 85 percent of menstruating women have at least 1 PMS symptom as part of their monthly cycle (estimated by The American College of Obstetricians…
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Few things are more frustrating than trying and trying to conceive without success. But even though you might not believe it (when it seems everyone you know is having babies except for you), infertility in women is more common than you might think: in the U.S., an estimated 12% of women of childbearing age have…
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What does PMS stand for? Ask around, and you may run into a number of tongue-in-cheek definitions. For example: Pass My Shotgun Pimples May Surface Pardon My Sobbing Puffy Mid-Section Psychotic Mood Shift Unfortunately, these are all pretty descriptive of what it feels like to suffer from pre-menstrual syndrome, the real meaning of this acronym.…
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Three out of four women experience some kind of discomfort in the days before their period, be it mild cramping, mood shifts, breast tenderness, achiness, feeling bloated, or that all-too-familiar desire to stuff your face with chocolate. For most, these symptoms are mild, and/or can be easily alleviated with simple, natural treatments such as changes…
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Once we enter the fourth decade in our lives, we become more prone to certain diseases and physiological conditions that may stay with us for the rest of our lives. These include: heart disease, diabetes, auto-immune disorders, and so on; you are also likely to be more vulnerable to stroke and cancer as the years…
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I want to chat with you today about being proactive in your pursuit of wellness. In America today, we don’t have wellness care, nor do we have health care… we have disease care. Often, by the time we get ourselves to the doctor because something has been bugging us for months (or years) it’s too…
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