Whether it is heart disease or cancer, arthritis or diabetes, it seems that getting older is linked to an increased incidence of many different chronic diseases.
The menopausal journey adds an extra layer of health risks to some of them, but is also an opportunity to fine-tune healthy living goals in a way that also helps to ward off disease. Knowledge is power.
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I would like to learn more about postmenopausal women and heart disease.
Diane
My existing hormonal autoimmune disorders exacerbate my menopausal health.
Beth
How does the womanly body work after menopause, what changes happen now?
Lorraine
What can I do to stay healthy longer?
Roxy
More Information
Blog posts tagged as chronic disease considerations:- Voices With Vigor: The Best Primary Care
- Feeling Like the Underdog in Healthcare? How to Advocate for Yourself in Midlife
- Voices With Vigor: Trauma Redefined
- Why Your Medication List Is Often Wrong
- Hormones, Then & Now
- Keeping it Real: A Candid Conversation on Caregiving, Connection, and Presence
- Mindset Matters in Young-Onset Parkinson’s
- Beyond The Pills Podcast
- Let’s Talk About Menopause!
- Navigating Autoimmune Disease
Additional Video Links
Resources:
- Although not specific to postmenopause, this is a good summary from the New England Journal of Medicine of “where we are at” after 50 years of better focus on women’s health, especially with respect to chronic disease, including cancer and cardiovascular disease: Women’s Health – Traversing Medicine and Public Policy.
- Considering the importance of nutrition on chronic disease (especially prevention), a great resource is Dr. Michael Greger’s website NutritionFacts.org and his book (with Gene Stone) How Not to Die.
- Along those same lines, the documentary “Forks Over Knives” is well worth watching…and, yes, there is a website too.
- A deep dive (down the rabbit hole) article from Frontiers in Immunology entitled “Vitamins D2 and D3 Have Overlapping But Different Effects on the Human Immune System Revealed Through Analysis of the Blood Transcriptome” gives great information about Vitamin D and many illnesses.
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