"Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them." - Einstein

Situated at the top of the world in the heart of the Colorado Rockies, Alpine Women’s Care offers women of all ages a comprehensive approach to their health within the context of a new wellness paradigm.

Shelley S. Binkley, M.D., is a Board Certified Obstetrician~Gynecologist and author with fifteen years’ experience practicing medicine in Colorado. She has developed a philosophy of fostering wellness through identifying and addressing the complex interplay between physical, emotional, and mental factors. Her relationships with clients, ongoing self-education, and life experiences have endowed her with unique insight.

Dr. Binkley strives to create a warm, personal, caring environment where every woman feels heard and understood. Through her well-woman care she helps families navigate life’s transitions: adolescence, pregnancy and post-partum, perimenopause, and menopause. She has a keen interest in empowering her clients with knowledge about their hormones and management of hormonal issues through the many facets of diet, lifestyle, and hormone or pharmaceutical treatment if necessary.

Just as women must adapt to constant change in their lives, Dr. Binkley has created a practice environment that quickly incorporates and applies intellectual and technological advances in women’s health care. She offers cutting-edge office-based diagnosis and treatments for abnormal bleeding, permanent birth control, and other gynecologic issues such as management of abnormal pap smears. As the price tag of medical care has spiraled out of control, Dr. Binkley constantly searches for cost-effective minimally-invasive treatments for women’s health concerns.

For more information visit: www.drshelleybinkley.com, www.alpinewomenscare.com or call 970-945-4499.

Have you been struck by moments like this? Your coworker makes an innocent comment that annoys you. Your kids are talking and you yell at them to be quiet. You arrive home and your husband gets off the couch to help you unload the groceries and you scream at him. He backs off with a puzzled look and you think, "Who am I? What am I doing?"

Recent research reveals there is a complex interplay governing your mental, emotional, and physical function.

This involves not only your ovarian hormones, but their interaction with your "stress" hormones, your metabolic hormones and your physical nerve cells.

Do certain phases of life make you more vulnerable and if so, how?

Understanding and coping with "PMS" or "perimenopause" or "adolescent mood swings" is not necessarily as simple as whitewashing the symptoms with hormones or anti-depressants. Access this experienced gynecologist’s double insider’s view.

Dr. Shelley S. Binkley has seen hormones from both sides. She puts her experiences together with those of her clients and synthesizes those within the context of modern science to give you the big picture and allow you to:
Get A Grip! On Your Hormones!

You can preview the book at www.drshelleybinkley.com.

Email the author with questions and suggestions for future books at info@alpinewomenscare.com.

Did you know that: breast self-exam is best done AFTER your period?

Mammography screening is recommended every 1-2 years for women ages 40-49 years, annually for women 50 years and older. Some experts recommend a baseline mammography at age 35, then screening beginning at age 40.

Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) infection by one or more HPV subtypes occurs in up to 80% of sexually active women by age 50.

FDA has licensed the first HPV vaccine shown to be effective at preventing infection with SOME genotypes of HPV.

This vaccine offers protections against Cervical Cancer, cervical &, vaginal dysplasia’s and genital warts associated with HPV genotypes 6,11,16,18. It is a 3-dose vaccine series at 0, 2 and 6 months.

Dysplasia means abnormal cells - sometimes a precursor to cancer - sometimes healed by your body’s immune system alone.

This vaccine is recommended for women ages 9-26.

This vaccine also protects against only 70% of HPV related cervical cancer and 90% of genital wart cases.

So, this vaccine is a preventive tool - not a substitute for cancer screening (Annual PAP test) for women. It does not treat HPV infections or cervical cell changes.