Oh, boy! 44% of women ages 45-64 say they have problems with desire, arousal, and/or orgasm.  After you’ve gotten some decent sleep, food, and exercise and you’ve made sure that the inside of your vagina  is properly estrogenized (Vagifem), another thing to try is Zestra (drugstores).  Zestra’s botanical oils, applied externally a few minutes before any lubricant, have a way of jazzing up your sensitivity.  To jazz up the mind, try an erotic romance novel like Ann Jacob’s “A Mutual Favor,” a mix of great characters and steamy love.  The lowest possible dose of bioidentical estradiol, prescribed by your doctor as Evamist, may simultaneously cool hot flashes and raise hot feelings.

You clean that cut with soap and water and then you wonder “Should I cover it?”  The answer is YES!  A cut covered with antibacterial ointment or Vaseline and a bandage will heal 40% faster – no need for the boo-boo to breathe.  “Breathing” brings scabs, and scabs hinder healing.

You really can duck the swine — and any other flu that comes along.  First of all, wash your hands already!  I’m astonished when I see the women in my gym handle those sweaty weights and mats and then pick up their kids from the baby sitter without washing their hands!  I’d say in an average day I wash my hands five or six times – after the gym, after errands, before and after eating, before handling anything in my kitchen, before bed.  OK.  Use disinfecting wipes on phones, counters, desktops, doorknobs, faucets, and keyboards.  So then, are you getting your sleep and taking your multivitamin, especially your Vitamins C and D?  Maybe a little extra D?  Those are the basic flu fighters and then there’s oscillococcinum, a homeopathic pill you can buy in drugstores. Why haven’t you heard of it?  Simple – no one can pronounce it. This stuff that you can’t pronounce (you should’ve heard them try on the Today Show) receives rave reviews from doctors, celebrities and people from age 2 to 102!  Taken at the first sign of flu symptoms, this supplement claims to cut your sick time from 3-7 days to 24 hours.  Available worldwide for over 65 years, many independent studies have confirmed that it actually does work!  Coldcalm, which also has many fans, is their product to head off a cold when you or your child feels a tickle.  Movie stars use them before the Oscars, TV people pass it around during intense filming, and you could use it before an important event, meeting, or test.  It couldn’t hurt!

What was that for you? Watching Batman and the Smothers Brothers on TV? Wishing “Joy to the World” with Three Dog Night or goin’ down those country roads with John Denver?  Getting some summer lovin’ kisses in the theatre watching Grease or watching Richard Dreyfuss pursue Close Encounters of the Third Kind?  Whatever you remember fondly from “the good old days,” consider why NOW is the BEST day!  Yes, there is pollution, economic upheaval and a decline in the nuclear family.  The family seen in “Leave it to Beaver” ain’t what it used to be!  But maybe that’s a good thing!  June Cleaver didn’t have the personal freedom, mobility, career and birth control choices that women have now.  95% of all babies worldwide will survive to adulthood! Today’s families will often gather at Great-Grandma’s birthday party with four generations spanning 100 years. In this month’s Boomer Bites, I describe advances in vision, spine surgery, cancer detection, food, sleep aids, even botox.   We must be doing something right!

You may receive a message on your cell that says, “Hey, sorry I missed you, I have something important to tell you, please get back to me at my new number, 809 ——-.”   If the area code is 809, DO NOT return the call. You’ll be calling the Dominican Republic and charged hundreds, if not thousands, of dollars.  This is one of those email forwards that is actually true.  Call your provider for help if you fell for this one.