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No One Likes To Talk About This Unbearable Symptom Of Aging — But There Are Solutions, According An Expert
Filed 46m ago · Via HuffPost · The Buffoon Desk
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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0
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HuffPost's shopping desk revisits vaginal dryness, a real menopause symptom, with input from a Weill Cornell gynecologist who explains the biology of decreasing estrogen and thinning tissue.
The doctor recommends moisturizers and lubricants as a starting point, with prescription options for more severe cases, but declines to endorse specific brands.
HuffPost then supplies its own shortlist anyway, including an Amazon balm with thousands of ratings, each link tagged with an affiliate code that funds the outlet if you click through.
The full dispatch is available from the source below.
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A doctor gives sound, careful advice and stops short of naming products. Then a shopping team fills in the blank with links that happen to pay the website every time somebody clicks. That gap between the expert's caution and the sales pitch built around it is the whole trick, and it's an old one dressed up in a lab coat.