Your colon’s main job is to absorb water from residual food as it’s passing through your digestive system. It then creates stool. The colon’s muscles eventually propel the waste out through the rectum to be eliminated. If stool remains in the colon too long, it can become hard and difficult to pass. Poor diet frequently causes constipation, but certain medications and supplements can also be a culprit for constipation.Medications and supplements that cause constipation Opiates - Morphine,…

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Not in the mood? Is it hormonal, is it my partner, or is it a normal part of aging?

Join Host and Author Dr. Holly Thacker as she reads and discusses "Menopause and Sex," Chapter 9 of her book The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Menopause. Dr. Thacker will share common low sex drive symptoms and the different treatment option available.

 

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Sleep is one of the body's basic needs, it restores and preserves our health. When we're sleep deprived, our tolerant for stress plummets.

Women who report the most sleep problems are those in the perimenopausal through menopausal years. Host and Author Dr. Holly Thacker discusses how to get a better night's rest and what not to do during the day that prevents quality sleep at night.

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If there's one line that screams menopause it's, "I'm having a hot flash!"

Hot flashes and night sweats can interfere with a woman's everyday life. Host and Author Dr. Holly Thacker shares ways women can minimize hot flashes and treatment options.

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Nutrition is vitally important at midlife. Our metabolism is slowing down and our muscle mass is decreasing and we can't rebound from the consequences of poor health choices. 

Host and Author Dr. Holly Thacker discusses how women can eat healthy at midlife and control how you look and feel one bite at a time!

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Read Dr. Holly L. Thacker's column on nutrition and menopause.

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Menopause can be associated with a number of changes in the physical appearance, skin can lose elasticity, hair can get thinner and unfortunately belly weight can become a problem.

Host and Author Dr. Holly Thacker shares tips, supplements and treatments to help improve skin and hair during the menopause transition.

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Menopause is not actually a major risk for depression, however the hormonal changes that occur during this time in a woman's life can influence the neurotransmitters in the brain. This can affect a woman's sleep, mood and sense of well-being. 

Host and Author Dr. Holly Thacker shares tips to improve mood during midlife.

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For women it isn't always clear that a specific health symptom is caused by aging, menopause or another health condition. 

Host and Author Dr. Holly Thacker discusses how women can know when a symptom is menopause related and needs treatment from a healthcare clinician.

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Author and Host Dr. Holly Thacker reads and discusses Chapter 2 Symptoms of Menopause from her book The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Menopause.  

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Join Host Dr. Holly Thacker as she reads chapter 1 of her book, The Cleveland Clinic Guide to Menopause where she shares the importance of women seeing the appropriate clinicians during midlife.

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When you hear hormone therapy, do you ultimately think the worst? Twenty years after the Women's Health Initiative (WHI), women are still concerned about the risks of hormone therapy.

Speaking of Women's Health Podcast Host Dr. Holly Thacker discusses the impact the WHI study had on women 20 years ago and how the fear of hormone therapy is still a real issue in women's healthcare.

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There is a new study by Saleh and colleagues published in Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy. The study suggests that hormone therapy (HT) is associated with improved cognition and larger brain volumes in at-risk APOE ε4 women. Dr. Kenjal Kantarci, provides her expert commentary to help put this new study into perspective.Article Summary The risk of dementia is higher in women than in men. The decline of estrogen during the menopause transition is theorized to accelerate development of…

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Join certified Functional Medicine and Women's Health expert Dr. Sobia Khan as she discusses the functional medicine approach to hot flashes, insomnia and other midlife maladies. 

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By: Holly L. Thacker, MDMenopausal hormone therapy has complex cardiometabolic effects. Age, time since menopause, type and route of administration of HT and concomitant disease are all factors in the response to HT and the risk-benefit equation.In general, both estradiol and progesterone are vasodilatory but when given orally can lead to activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system. Activation of the RAAS system can lead to vasoconstriction with some fluid retention and resultant…

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Join Emeritus Professor Philip Sarrel to understand how to Advance Health After Hysterectomy and why estrogen is key to treating symptoms, reducing disease risks and prolonging life in women post hysterectomy.

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CME interview with Women’s Health and Menopause specialist Dr. Camille Moreno on menopausal symptoms, indications for hormone therapy use, the WHI vilification of HT and updated NAMS guidelines on the use of HT.

Dr. Moreno is an assistant professor and medical director of the Midlife Women's Health program at University of Utah OBGYN.

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Join this podcast discussion with menopause expert Dr. Mary Jane Minkin of Yale University School of Medicine. Dr. Minkin reviews all the individualized options for menopausal management, including hormonal and nonhormonal for women, health clinicians and other allied healthvwho want to find the most helpful option for their patients with a particular focus in cancer survivors. 

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In this Speaking of Women's Health Podcast episode, host Dr. Holly L. Thacker talks with recent retiree Lillie McKinney LPN. Lillie was a nurse at Cleveland Clinic's Center for Specialized Women's Health for more than a decade and prior to that worked at several other hospitals in Northeast Ohio.

Lillie was loved by all of her patients and colleagues.

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