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Hormone Blog
Dr. Liz shares her knowledge about how hormones impact your everyday health & wellness, how hormones relate to cancer, and even how hormones affect your sex life. Not sure where to start? Take a look at Dr. Liz’s artical on The Major Hormones That Affect Your Weight or read her guide for how to Balance Your Hormones to Improve Your Sex Drive.
Being Grateful When we Look in the Mirror
I couldn't wait to introduce you to my friend Naomi Bareket, an NLP expert and Coach. (More coming on what NLP is future emails :)). By way of introduction, here is a short excerpt from her book,...
Brené Brown’s 10 Guideposts For Wholehearted Living
Today I want to share with you, and bestow upon you for your weekend rejuvenation, Brené Brown’s Ten Guideposts for Wholehearted Living. As you read these, which ones resonate? Do any of them make...
Power Does Not Corrupt…
Lately all the craziness in the world has been getting me down. I’ve been spiritually struggling a little bit to do my job. As soon as I sit down with a patient, I’m good. I get into my groove and I...
Don’t Be Suckered By Scary Medical Headlines
News flash! If you cross the street twice, it DOUBLES your risk of getting hit by a car! Luckily for you, this means that in the U.S. (according to information from the Centers for Disease Control)...
This Hormone Does Cause Cancer
Last month I got a call no doctor wants to get. My patient Helen (never real names of my patients) told me she was diagnosed with breast cancer. It is possible to be lucky with cancer, and we think...
Liz’s Laws of Libido
... or, if God can "do over" the 10 commandments, Dr. Liz can give you her "3 Laws of Libido"! Last week at the Golden Gate Theater, I saw "An Act of God" with Sean Hayes. It was awesome and...
Half marathon? It’s official: I’m crazy!
Dear Elizabeth Lyster, Congratulations! You are now registered for the 2016 Divas Half Marathon & 5K in San Francisco Bay - Divas Half Marathon - Divas Half Marathon. Please check the event's...
“You’re Only Old Once!”
Did you think I forgot To send you my blog? My brain got too busy, And into some fog. It got kinda late But it is still Friday! Hope you had as much fun As I did on my day J It will be very...
Do I Get A Mammogram Or Not?
If I could wave a magic wand over all midlife women, I would simply want us all to not be afraid. Breast cancer is one of our biggest fears at this time of life, and with good reason. Even though...
Hormone Therapy: Wrongly Convicted
(Talk given at Toastmasters Club in Foster City, California) Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, You have the opportunity today to right a terrible wrong. I am here today for only one purpose: to show...
Symptoms of Inner Peace
To counteract the "everyday crazies", I pass along to you a lovely piece shared with me by a friend. Symptoms of Inner Peace 1. A tendency to think and act deliberately, rather than from fears based...
Do You Know Someone with a Female Brain?
“The female brain can be a messy place.” – Dr. Liz [See the very end of this article for a note from me added after I wrote this article.] I know you do in fact know someone who owns a female brain...
Is Your Scale Judging You?
You should weigh yourself every day. You should not weigh yourself every day. You should weigh yourself once a week. You should never weigh yourself – just judge your weight by how your clothes fit....
Is Your Brain “On Fire”?
One of my patients recently cracked me up when she told me she is now known among her family as the one whose “brain is on fire”. What??? What she’s talking about is the mental sharpness that she...
A Hormone Expert’s Holiday Eating Tips
There are zillions of articles at this time of year about food and eating, so here is my advice as a doctor and also as a "midlife" woman trying to keep a semblance of a waistline during this most...
Do You Sleep Like a Teenager?
My teenage boys can sleep and sleep. And sleep. I’m envious. My friend’s teenage daughter was recently feeling sick, and literally slept it off. She slept all day, woke up to eat, then was able to...
“How Long Do I Have to Take Hormones?”
“How long do I have to take hormones?” This question comes up with pretty much every woman I talk to about hormone replacement therapy. I am going to approach my answer from a few different angles....
What Inspires YOU?
This week, instead of giving you information, I want to ask you a question. What inspires you? What moved me to write this week about being inspired was an article I read recently about a college...
Belly Fat Combat, Part 4 of 4 – When Hormones Are Too High
“Dr. Liz, I’m not doing anything differently, and I’m getting a belly I never had before!” This is either near or right at the top of the list of frustrating issues I solve with my patients. Over...
Low Hormones – Belly Fat Combat, Part 3
Both women and men reach their peak levels of most hormones in our 20’s. After that, most hormone levels decline, including estrogen and progesterone in women, and testosterone, DHEA and growth...
How to Shed Belly Fat, Part 2: Get Enough Sleep
Last week we talked about how high cortisol causes belly fat to start attaching itself to your body at midlife. You know, that body of yours that used to respond to what “everybody knows” is the...
Here’s how to shed belly fat, Part 1: Lower Your Cortisol
At the beginning of October, we asked this question about hormones and belly fat: How come no one told me this was going to happen? Or, as I start out in Dr. Liz’s Easy Guide to Menopause, quoting...
Safe, Effective Remedies for Menopausal Symptoms
We know that many (maybe most) women experiencing symptoms related to perimenopause and menopause are not getting the help they need. Many people think hormone therapies are not safe or that...
Belly Fat and Hormones: How come no one told me this was going to happen?
A friend of mine (one of those string bean ladies), naturally thin now in her late 40’s, lifts her shirt, pinches her tummy and says, “Why didn’t anyone tell me this was going to happen. I have a...