Hot flashes, weight gain, vaginal dryness, painful intimacy, insomnia, depression, anxiety . . . If you're ready to move on from all these and more symptoms of menopause, you've come to the right place. Your first step is finding a qualified healthcare professional who knows exactly what to do to help you eliminate your symptoms and reduce your risks at the same time.

A mentor of mine has referred to perimenopause as "no man's land." It's a 4-6 year (or longer) period where hormones are all over the place, creating dozens of symptoms and both literal and figurative headaches for both women and their healthcare practitioners. Finding a qualified, experienced provider is the first step toward managing those symptoms, reducing risks, and staying positive.

Missed periods, infertility (from not ovulating), unwanted hair growth, weight gain, anxiety, and many other symptoms wreak havoc on the lives of women with PCOS. It's such a complicated hormonal issue that many doctors simply prescribe birth control pills and hope for the best. Your best first step toward beating PCOS is finding a provider who understands how to treat the root problem, underneath the symptoms. A qualified provider can help resolve all your hormone issues.

The Alzheimer's Association says over 6 million Americans have been diagnosed with Alzheimer's. That number is expected to at least double by 2050. The conventional wisdom still says, "There's nothing you can do." But a growing number of healthcare practitioners and brain researchers have discovered there are strategies that reduce cognitive risk, even for those of us with a family history of cognitive decline. Finding the right provider is the first step toward staying sharp.