May 2009

MANAGING THE MENOPAUSE WITHOUT HRT: EXERCISE

It is also important to take plenty of exercise to burn off the excess calories and to strengthen your bones. The more bones and muscles are used, the stronger they grow, so from your middle years onwards the new buzz-words in your life should be ‘mechanical loading’, which means giving your bones plenty of work. [...]

HYSTERECTOMY: QUESTIONS OFTEN ASKED

My sex life has deteriorated since having a hysterectomy a year ago, partly bemuse I find it difficult to get interested in sex. I don’t feel comfortable talking to my surgeon about this and I’m wondering who else could help. Loss of interest in sex after hysterectomy may be due to reduced levels of sex [...]

HYPNOSIS AND SLEEP

Highway hypnosis. Since hypnosis is not sleep, what is its relationship to sleep? When a person is driving a long distance on a highway, his eyes are focused only on the highway; he cannot look at anything beyond the highway for more than a few seconds. His eyes and his attention have to come back [...]