Little-known Secrets about Living with Uterine Fibroids: Natural Remedies and Small Lifestyle Changes that can Make a Big Difference
Uterine Fibroids are a very complex and difficult condition, and their diagnosis often requires a number of tests and clinical exams. However, despite the lack of information available online about the exact cause of this condition, scientists and doctors have stated...
What are the symptoms and how do you reduce uterine fibroids?
The fibroid of the uterus is one of the most common benign tumors of the female reproductive system: it affects women of childbearing age (between 25 and 45 years) compromising the quality of life and femininity. Uterine fibroid is a benign tumor mass that develops...
Everything you need to know when preparing for your uterine fibroid ultrasound
Uterine fibroids: what are they? Uterine fibroids (or myomas) are benign (non-cancerous), solid growths or tumors that originate from the muscle tissue of the uterus. Uterine fibroids affect women of childbearing age as they respond to the influence of estrogen....
Want to make the most of beauty treatments? Go with the flow
We know it. It’s something that arises from deep within. We know it, somewhat unconsciously. But we tend to forget that hormones strongly impact our psychophysical health and when they are in balance the body works a lot better. Making peace with hormones is therefore...
Menstruation has not always been described consistently
A crippling disease. A disease that makes you impure and withers everything it touches. Most likely a cause of hysteria. And finally, a condition that calls for total rest. These are just some of the definitions used to describe menstruation over the centuries....
Time to debunk the menopause myth!
Everyone knows that during menopause the metabolism slows down, right? WRONG! In fact, a recent study published in the journal Science shows that the extra kilos accumulated after the age of 45 are not ascribable to a general slowdown in our metabolism, rather to...
Craftswomen, hunters, painters: that’s who cavewomen were (among other things)
Patriarchy has never represented natural history, nor prehistory: that’s what the book written by French palaeontologist Marylène Patou-Mathis, L'homme prehistorique est aussi une femme (Allary Editions), reveals. The author assures that thinking that women were...
The true story of women in the Divine Comedy
The seven hundredth anniversary of Dante's death has been celebrated throughout all of 2021. These celebrative events were a precious opportunity to remember possibly the most famous Italian author in the world, but also to rediscover the less known details of his...
Financial education can help bridge the gender gap
A women-only bank, for encouraging women’s economic independence, among other things. That’s the promise of a newly-founded Swiss bank, whose aim is to bring women closer to the world of finance, offering them investment assistance and financial education....
Does menopause set us free?
With just a few days to go before the release (on Sky on 9 December) of And just like that, the longed-for sequel to Sex & The City, let’s go back to an old line uttered by Cynthia Nixon joke to introduce a concept that has also been stressed by an renowned...