Russell Crowe stars as the legendary figure known by generations as “Robin Hood,” whose exploits have endured in popular mythology and ignited the imagination of those who share his spiri… read more read more…t of adventure and righteousness. In 13th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and [...]

I first started researching osteoporosis because of two personal experiences that ignited my interest in bone health. The first was my grandmother’s death at the age of 102 after a hip fracture. The second was when I was told at the age of 36 that I had receding gums, which I knew was an early [...]

You’ve probably heard that women are prone to losing bone during menopause. For the most part, nature has provided healthy women with ample bone mass to accommodate this perimenopausal and menopausal bone loss, but some women can end up with dramatically less bone mass than when they began the transition — up to 20% for [...]

These days we have so many health concerns to think about that many women who haven’t suffered from a bone fracture or been diagnosed with osteoporosis or osteopenia are of the mind that, if it isn’t broken, why fix it? Well, one good reason to stay on top of bone health is that osteoporosis is [...]

Over the years I’m sure I’ve lost over 100 pounds — the same 10 pounds ten times! And my patients tell me the same thing. On any given day about half of all American women (and girls) are on a diet. We spend an estimated $30–40 billion a year on diets and weight-loss products. But [...]

It’s been said that the brain is the most important sexual organ, and it follows that your beliefs about sex and what sort of behavior is “age-appropriate,” can alter your sex drive. We believe that desire and satisfaction depend as much on emotional and psychological factors as on the purely physical — sometimes more so. [...]

Most of us know that chronic stress isn’t healthy, but we may not realize the toll it takes on libido. The body interprets ongoing stress as life threatening, so naturally, survival is prioritized ahead of pleasure. Stress over-burdens the adrenal glands, “stealing” the substances normally used to make estrogens and testosterone, both vital to desire [...]

Some women go on prescription testosterone in hopes of experiencing rapid improvement in sex drive and sexual response. But based on experience with over 100,000 patients in the past 25 years, testosterone should only be prescribed after careful, thorough evaluation and testing, to verify the need. For women, there does not seem to be a [...]