Berman Sexual Health

Hormones are powerful chemicals that help keep your body functioning normally, your bones strong, your brains acute, and your sex life potent. Hormones are involved in almost every biological process in your body including sexual reproduction, growth, metabolism, weight control, aging, as well as immune function. Hormones, especially estrogen, play a critical role in our bodies that go well beyond alleviating the typical symptoms we all know of: hot flashes and night sweats. Hormones actually affect your brain, your cognitive ability and mental acuity or sharpness, short term memory as well as mood.

Vaginal dryness is much more than a troublesome nuisance. But given the time constraints of office visits, many patients are understandably reluctant to discuss it, spending their limited time on more pressing questions. However, treating the emotional and physical discomfort that dryness can impose on a woman's life is an opportunity to greatly improve her quality of life. For that reason, it is important to fully appreciate and communicate the potential for good that can come as a result of the right diagnosis and effective treatment for this correctable predicament.

Of all the wondrous miracles of our world, none is more miraculous than the female body. It is to be appreciated, it is to be worshipped, and it is to be amazed with its timely changes that occur throughout a woman's life. One change that is destined and brings a range of emotions from anxiety to elation is menopause. The French say life begins at forty. Something else is on its way as well.

River of Night Sweats! The Fire of Hot Flashes! Terror in the Ovaries! No, these are not summer blockbusters coming to a theatre near you. In reality, these are a few symptoms a woman can experience when the change is at hand. Whoever said being a goddess was going to be easy.