October is Menopause Awareness Month. The campaigns will cover the familiar ground of flashes, sleep, and mood, and every one of those matters. Another symptom gets far less airtime, though, and it starts in your microcirculation: a bone-deep exhaustion that ignores eight hours of rest and greets you again at breakfast.
Tag: Fatigue
Voices With Vigor: Inflamed & Confused? The Plot Twist of Midlife Immunity
Join Susan Baumgaertel and Kara Wada for an unscripted conversation on autoimmunity, midlife immune health, and the physician-patient perspective on living with chronic immune conditions.
Don’t Wait to Design Your Life
Dawn Baker, MD’s guest post sheds light on how we can take control of our life with simple steps to sculpt the components as we desire. Midlife is a time to give ourselves permission!
What Fills Your Cup?
Quick tips on how to place your own needs first, improve fatigue, simplify your medical care and reclaim your inner wisdom.
When Pillars of Wellness Intersect!
We’ve all heard about the pillars of wellness: movement, nutrition, sleep, stress, social connection—there are many others. The following vignette is based on a recent experience from my neighborhood walks. Can you find how many pillars are in this story AND how many peri/menopause symptoms are impacted?
Walking Women: An Interview
Does daily walking improve your health? Read a great interview with Dr. Susan Baumgaertel by Laura Boulay of One Million Women Walking, and see how the benefits of daily walking apply to menopause symptom management.
Flip the Script!
Tips for flipping the script on being too busy in our fast-paced, 24/7 world.
Do You Laugh at Your Mistakes?
What if you screw up? Making mistakes is part of life, right? Sometimes overthinking things can be quite limiting. If you try to plan for all the potential downsides of doing something, you may never do it at all.