Osteoporosis is a health concern for all women as they get older.

Women who suffer an osteoporotic hip fracture have a higher chance of dying from any cause for years after the event. Many of them cannot return to their previous level of independent living.

Regular Heavy strength training, in addition to adequate nutrition and supplementation helps decrease the risk.

The Osteoporosis Nutrient Calculator helps you determine if you need to get more through your diet or supplement to meet the daily recommended intake without over-supplementing.

Consistent, high quality sleep not only decreases bothersome symptoms of menopause, but also is one of the most overlooked opportunities improve our overall health.

Sleep influences your mental, emotional, and physical health; your appetite and body composition; your ability to make healthy food choices; your motivation for exercising and social connections.

Unfortunately, the long-term use of prescription sleep aids is associated with decreased cognitive function AND women do not metabolize these medications well.

My Sleepwell is a very helpful website with free resources to help learn about your areas of opportunity to improve your sleep life without medications.

Heart Disease leads the way in causes of death and will account for 10 times as many deaths as breast cancer.

Reducing your risk includes ensuring that your blood pressure is well controlled.

Unfortunately, women are under-screened AND undertreated BUT self-screening is easy to do.

Click here to learn how to correctly measure your blood pressure to screen yourself for hypertension.

Consider setting an annual reminder for you and your family to self-screen for Hypertension.

There are many ways in which our thinking causes unnecessary worry, anxiety, and sadness.

Fortunately, there is a specific type of counselling called Cognitive Behavioural Therapy that helps us identify our “pitfalls” of thinking, acknowledge, and reframe our situations, and change our thinking to avoid this unneeded stress.

This link provides free, short-term, virtual/online counselling for residents of Ontario. If you have not done CBT, I would highly recommend it.

Bladder incontinence is one of the most common symptoms that women think they just have to deal with.

Yet many of us are not aware that pelvic physiotherapy can improve symptoms that are caused by the pelvic floor muscles being too weak or too strong.

It can also help with pain during sex, in the pelvis, hips, and low back.

Here is a link to find a pelvic physiotherapist in your area to find out more.

Cholesterol matters because it is linked with the likelihood of having a heart attack.

While environment, genetics, age, and sex all play a role in cholesterol levels, so does the lifestyle. Regular exercise and dietary considerations can help improve your levels too.

Here is a link to learn more about dietary ways to improve Cholesterol as recommended by the Canadian Cardiovascular Society.

Note that the DASH, Mediterranean, and Whole Food Vegetarian diets all have great evidence for heart health too.

Did you that more than 2 standardized alcoholic drinks per week increases your risk for breast cancer?

And more than 7/week is associated with a LOT of health problems like heart disease, dementia and cancer?

Click here to learn what a standard drink looks like so you can indulge wisely.

Did you know that Canada has one of the highest MJ use rates in the world?

Or that it can worsen brain fog, memory, reaction time, anxiety, depression, AND heart disease risk - EVEN IF you’re only eating it?

Have a look at Lower Risk Cannabis Use Guidelines to ensure you can indulge wisely.