5 Warm and Healthy Beach Reads

1. How to menopause: take the lead for your health, recover your life and feel even better than before By Tamsen Fadal

The subject of menopause does not shout exactly ‘beach reading’, but that is the beauty of this book. From the start, author Tamsen Fadal pulls you to her life and her mysterious symptoms – fast heartbeat, sleepless nights, forget how you can pronounce simple words like a broadcaster on live TV – not knowing hormones that were to blame.

Because of her own story and insight from more than 40 experts, Fadal unpacks the countless ways, the perimenopause (the time prior to the menopause) and the menopause influence overall health and daily life.

Chapters also contain tips, advice and recommendations for everything, from brain fog and bone health to sex and dating in midlife.

Fadal’s “Big Sister on Speed ​​Dial” approach helps to answer the call for support, guidance and connection during the menopause.

Read: 7 Menopause tips from the Pros >>

2. Come together: the science (and art!) Of creating permanent sexual connections By Emily Nagoski, Ph.D.

Do you know that all that steaming beach reads about couples that have been together for more than 20 years and cannot keep their hands apart and roll in orgasms? Yes, not either.

But maybe there should be. In Come togetherAuthor Emily Nagoski, Ph.D., says that many of us feel that sexual desire and satisfaction fall in long-term relationships but that is not really the case.

Nagoski tackles wrong information, assumptions and barriers that can keep people of great sex and dive deep into important questions such as why we even want sex in the first place (sspoiler: Iit’s no orgasms).

The approachable-Soms Hilarious Toon makes the fact-based science and a complex nature of relationships easy to understand. And if you feel that your love tank is empty, there is advice about how you can use your sexual competence – and your partners – in the bedroom (or wherever you get it).

After all, you are on vacation.

Read: good sex with Emily Jamea: Holiday Sex >>

3. Grown Woman Talk: Your essential companion for healthy living By Sharon Malone, MD

Really talk: I have never met Michelle Obama, but I feel that I can trust her. So when the former First Lady said Grown woman talking is a “must-read for everyone who cares for their quality of life” I was sold.

For people who don’t have WWMD bracelet, Grown woman talking Offers a mix of personal experience, current data and advice on aging, aging in the healthiest way and how you can get the best medical care when you need it.

The information comes from a great source: author Sharon Malone, MD, is an OB-Gyn, certified menopause practitioner and an advocate for research and education on women’s health in the midlife.

The expertise of Malone gives her a unique perspective on how women can become their “best primary caregiver”, despite the fact that health care has not been created with women in mind – especially women of color. Chapters offer useful tips such as identifying health goals and how you can choose a doctor.

Grown woman talking Is about giving women the information and inspiration to lead your healthiest life. You may notice that you call your caregiver from the beach to make the appointment that you have postponed. It is what Michelle would do.

4. Lift: how women can recover their physical strength and transform their lives By Anne Chaker

Anne Chaker was a 42-year-old mother who staggered with divorce, postpartum depression and the sudden death of her father when she first heard about bodybuilding. It completely changed her life.

In LiftChaker recalls her journey to the world of competitive bodybuilding – Strass bikini and all – and her deeper search for answers about the obsession of society with women who have to be thin and small. Why not strong?

Chaker, an experienced journalist and former Wall Street Journal Reporter finds out in history behind the misconceptions of the body of women and the science behind how strength training changes the body and the brain – it can even save your life.

After reading this Strandloun you want to get a few arm dips on your beach loun.

5. Everything in her head: the truth and the early medicine the medicine teaches us about female bodies and why it matters By Elizabeth Comen, MD

“This book is a tribute to the lives of women: the one they have lived, those who have lost them and those who deserve them.” Yes – powerful things.

Of the dedication to the last page, All in her head Grabs your attention and don’t let go.

Author, oncologist and medical historian Elizabeth Comen makes a compelling story that combines her personal experience in the medical field with the history of women’s health problems in a way that is both easy to understand and difficult to understand.

The result is equal parts shocking, emotional, inspiring and sometimes – completely annoying. (Tip: Maybe you want to go to the swimming pool to take an underwater craze after the history of gynecology.)

Each chapter is devoted to women’s health per body system (skin, blood circulation, reproductive, etc.) and includes a wide range of subjects such as plastic surgery, sexual health and a chapter entitled, nervous: the “Bitches Be Crazy” school

of medicine.

It is not easy to tolerate all the women’s health problems that have been ignored, rejected or incorrectly diagnosed over the years due to bias and lack of interest.

But knowledge is power. And knowing what women have experienced can give you the power not to be apologetic in the demand for quality of life and care.