Protecting your skin from the sun’s harmful rays. Ensuring you receive enough vitamin D. It’s possible to accomplish both objectives.
Protecting your skin from the sun’s harmful rays. Ensuring you receive enough vitamin D. It’s possible to accomplish both objectives.
The COVID-19 pandemic has taught us many things, including the value of our relationships—and this extends beyond human connections. Although contact with other people has been limited over the past year and a half, our furry friends have helped fill the gap when it comes to our emotional and mental health.
In fact, a poll from the University of Michigan recently revealed about 10% of all US adults between the ages of 50 and 80 adopted a new pet between March 2020 and January 2021.
Most of us don’t think about our pelvic floors until there’s a problem, and when that happens, nobody is particularly eager to talk about it.
It’s been a long haul since the first cases of COVID-19 arrived… and not just physically. The pandemic has had a significant impact on the nation’s mental health, and women’s mental health specifically.
Because we’ve all been staying home more, stress, a lack of routine and constant access to snacks have created a perfect storm for weight gain. But knowing it’s a perfect storm is the first step in weight maintenance. Now you can make a plan.
To address stress, make sure you’re practicing some form of mindfulness and getting some exercise every day.
Estrogen is a powerful and pervasive hormone secreted mostly in our ovaries. Beginning in perimenopause, our estrogen levels fluctuate and decline until, several years post-menopause, we produce very little, if any, estrogen. This process is natural and sometimes disruptive.
Picture this: You’re at home, enjoying your favorite leisure-time activity without a care in the world. Without warning, your arm goes numb and your drink slips out of your hand. You try to stand, but dizziness drops you back to the sofa. You try to speak, but the words don’t flow like they normally do.
In the confusion, you wonder, “Should I take a nap and hope I feel better in an hour?” Or, you worry, “I don’t want to call 911 if it’s not an emergency.”
When your stress is in overdrive, you might want to reach for a pint of ice cream or a bag of potato chips. While comfort foods definitely feel good in the moment, these choices are often high in fat, sugar and total carbohydrates.
If you recovered from COVID-19 months ago and still aren’t back to feeling like yourself again, you’re not alone. According to the Journal of Infection, more than 50% of all patients who contracted the virus may have symptoms that just don’t go away.