hormones

Wellness

5 Ways to boost your energy and keep it up

Are you one of the 31 percent of adults suffering from ongoing fatigue? Tired of being hooked on coffee and "loan shark" energy...

Dental & Vision

How hormones affect your dental health

You know that hormones affect your mood, but did you know they can also impact your mouth? It's true: Hormonal fluctuations...

Parenting Tips & Advice

Manopause: Moms dish on their hormonal hubbies

Aha! Has your man ever made a comment about your, ahem, emotional moments — especially those that have to do with pregnancy,...

Beauty for Moms

Moms and melasma

Many of us have heard the term "The Mask of Pregnancy," also known as melasma, but what does it really mean? Melasma are the dark...

Stress

7 Best ways to bust stress

Fast, ambitious lives can cause anxiety that becomes as much a part of our daily rhythms as our work and lattes. Whenever we are...

Teen Health & Wellness

Sleep and your older child

The change may be gradual or it may seem sudden. You adolescent starts having trouble falling sleep at night (even though you’ve...

Mom & Dad

Love hormones: Nature’s greatest pain relievers

There’s no better treatment for pain than a natural remedy -- and you don’t even have to go to the drugstore for this one: The love...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Dueling hormones: When puberty and menopause collide

Now, more than ever, so many households are experiencing puberty and perimenopause and menopause (I call it PM&M for short) at the...

Conditions

Polycystic ovary syndrome: PCOS, infertility and insulin resistance

Some women have a whole raft of symptoms – excess facial hair, acne, hair loss, easily accumulated “belly fat” and messed-up periods...

Stress

Does stress make you fat?

Metabolism is the latest buzzword when it comes to weight management. Metabolism, or basal metabolic rate, is the number of calories...