This past week in my office I witnessed two extremes of behavior among my clients. The first woman told me that she announced in couple’s therapy to her husband, “I’m never having sex again with you. I’m fat. I couldn’t care less about sex any more, and I’m done.” You could’ve heard a pin drop. [...]
Is your sex drive MIA? Mine was, for years. Similar to Gena Lee Nolin, the Baywatch actress on our teleseminar today with thyroid expert Mary Shomon, I struggled with baby weight, fatigue, mood problems, and in particular, low sex drive after my second child was born. I didn’t have to wear a red bathing suit on TV [...]
It happened again this week. I saw a patient who is 48 and came to me a few months ago because she felt flat sensually and sexually. Let’s call her Daphne. As part of our work together, I found she had a Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) of 3.1 and a low free T3. In other [...]
10,000 women in my private practice so far. Guess what every one of them wants to know? Single, divorced, pregnant, married, retired, gay – seriously, everyone. They can hardly wait for the door to close. “My sex drive! Where did it go? I want it back.” Inside my office, this question feels safe. Outside my [...]
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