A HEALTHIER, HAPPIER YOU AT ANY AGE!
Women’s lives are full of stress. It’s hard to balance work and personal relationships, much less eat right, exercise, and get enough sleep.
We know it’s important to stay healthy, but tend to avoid one big issue: the importance of physical intimacy in women’s overall health. Research shows intimacy can lead to longer lives, and healthier hearts, bodies and brains.
Women need good communication and affection from their partners, as well as knowing how to deal with changes resulting from childbirth, menopause, and illness. One estimate says 20% of couples may be in sexless relationships. Whether in their 20s or their 60s, 44% of U.S. women – 53 million – say they are concerned about it.
Two leading doctors discuss the importance of intimacy in women’s health and options to get back the benefits.
Dr. Leah Millheiser and Dr. Sharon Parish can discuss:
- Issues affecting women’s health (psychological issues, hormonal changes, pregnancy, menopause, illness)
- The benefits of regular positive intimate relationships (longer lives, healthier hearts and brains)
- Why drugs may not be the answer for women as they go through life’s passages
- A new scientifically proven product, Fiera®, that helps increase women’s interest in intimacy without drugs or hormones
About Leah S. Millheiser, MD, FACOG:
Dr. Leah Millheiser, OB/GYN and Chief Scientific Officer, Fiera She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor and the Director of the Female Sexual Medicine Program in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University Medical Center. She is an OB/GYN who has devoted her career to researching and treating all aspects of female sexual health. She has a particular interest in the sexual wellness of cancer survivors. She has served as the principal investigator for many clinical trials in the area of women’s sexual health and has authored numerous publications on female sexual dysfunction for peer-reviewed journals and textbooks.
Dr. Millheiser is frequently invited to lecture, both nationally and internationally and serves as a women’s health expert for television, online, and print media. After completing her residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Stanford University, she became the recipient of the prestigious Women’s Reproductive Health Research Scholarship (K12 award) from the NIH, conducting novel research on the specific patterns of brain activation and sexual response among women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. Her groundbreaking findings were published in the journal, Neuroscience.
About Sharon Parish, MD:
Dr. Sharon Parish, internist and sexual medicine expert and a Professor of Medicine in Clinical Psychiatry and Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College and the Director of Medical Services at the New York Presbyterian Hospital Westchester Division. Dr. Parish is a general internist with a special interest in practice, training and research in sexual medicine. She has designed many educational programs in male and female sexual dysfunction for undergraduate, postgraduate, and graduate medical education and across multiple disciplines. She has authored numerous publications on sexual dysfunction, sexuality communication skills, and sexual health education. She is the Immediate Past President of the International Society for the Study of Women’s Sexual Health (ISSWSH), chairman of the ISSWSH Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee, a member of the ISSWSH Board of Directors (2001-present), and was Chairman of the ISSWSH Education Committee from 2002-2014. . Dr. Parish is the Assistant Editor for Female Medical/Surgical Sexual Health for the Journal of Sexual Medicine. She is a North American Menopause Society (NAMS) Certified Menopause Practitioner (NCMP), and she has a private Sexual Medicine practice at the Weill Cornell Medical Center in New York City.
Interview provided by Nuelle Inc. and Fiera®
