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This article discusses some of the effects of menopause and ways a woman should protect her sleep, emotions, skin, bones, diet, and choices for using hormones.

Women go through anywhere from five to fifteen years of menopause. These years are especially hard on your body, mind, and lifestyle. When a woman's body naturally begins making and releasing fewer eggs, it also signals her body chemistry to release fewer hormones.

Stress: Can It Harm Fertility?

You probably already know that stress can lead to stomach ulcers, headaches, depression, anxiety, panic attacks, heart attacks, and a compromised immune system—but did you know that stress can also hurt your reproductive system? 

 Both men and women can be impacted, thereby reducing the chances of a healthy conception.

With researchers discovering that the benefits of estrogen are overrated and dangers underreported, it may be time to focus on your thyroid hormones

WOMEN AWAKENING TO HORMONE DISRUPTION

Remember the popular old song by Roberta Flack, Killing Me Softly...?

There is a new epidemic in our midst that is doing exactly that. It is not directly killing people so much as it is draining our life force, leaving us feeling that we're living half a life. This epidemic is gland disruption due to environmental pollution; that's right, it's a slowdown in production and proper utilization of our bodies' hormones due to toxic chemicals, often closely related to hormones in their chemical makeup, that confuse our endocrine systems, causing hormone havoc.

Untreated or improperly treated hypothyroidism can affect fertility in a number of ways.

If you are trying to get pregnant and have been unsuccessful, there is one essential thing you must do before you embark on costly or invasive fertility tests, or spend thousands of dollars for assisted reproduction: make sure your thyroid is functioning properly.