Navigating Nutrition: How Your Diet Affects Your Medications
Food and beverage choices not only impact your overall healthy, but they may also impact how certain medications work. Learn more here.
Unlocking Hormonal Harmony: A Guide to Balanced Living for Females and Males
Introduction: Welcome to our clinic's blog, where we delve into the intricate world of hormonal balance, wellness, chronic disease management and more. This week, our focus is hormonal wellness. Hormones play a crucial role in our overall well-being, affecting everything from mood to metabolism. In this post, we'll explore how hormonal balance impacts both females and males, and how you can achieve harmony for a healthier life. Understanding Hormonal Balance: Hormones are the
Reasons for Women's Wellness Exams
Introduction Women's wellness exams are important for women's health. This is especially true if you're over the age of 20, since the risks associated with cancer, heart disease and diabetes increase as you get older. Yearly exams are important for women's health. Yearly exams are important for women's health. They help you catch health problems early and ensure that you are up to date with your vaccinations, as well as get a pap smear when needed. A yearly exam includes: An
Say NO to Incontinence!
Urinary incontinence is the loss of bladder control, and no one likes to lose control over any of their body functions. Learn more about opt
What causes ovarian cysts?
Ovarian cysts are one of the most commonly seen problems which cause a female to go to the doctor, emergency room or hospital. Thankfully, the majority of ovarian cysts are not worrisome (benign). In fact, often these cysts may even go away on their own! If ovarian cysts are so common, then what causes them? While most of the time an exact cause is not known, the causes may range from ovulation (follicular cysts) to abnormal bleeding during ovulation (hemorrhagic cyst) to en
Is bleeding after menopause a "big deal"?
A common problem that I see in my office is abnormal bleeding...whether it is associated with puberty, the reproductive years or after the usual age of menopause (when the monthly periods completely stop). This article is going to concentrate on issues with bleeding AFTER menopause occurs. Menopause is defined as having gone a full year without a menstrual cycle. Once this occurs, any amount of bleeding is considered abnormal. Some patients will have only a slight brown disc
Confused about iron?
Everyone has heard about it. Few people understand it. What is iron and what functions does it have in the body? Is iron checked on routine blood tests? The purpose of this article is to give the reader a basic understanding about iron. Iron is a very important mineral that is needed by the human body for many purposes. The most commonly known purpose is for production of hemoglobin which is a major component of red blood cells and is responsible for carrying oxygen to the b
The unexpected symptom of menopause
Menopause is the time of life we always hear about and dread. "The change" is expected to cause things like hot flashes or night sweats, but there are so many other things that we never hear about. The big one that we are often surprised to experience is vaginal dryness. Now, I am not talking about just a little minor dryness either. Sometimes the Sahara Desert doesn't even -egin to describe the type of dryness that some women experience. And intimacy? Just forget about it!
What to do about Shark Week?
Now, I know what you are thinking. What in the world is a gynecologist doing talking about Shark Week? Well, it's probably NOT the Shark Week you are thinking about! Throughout time, women have chosen various creative nicknames to describe that "time of the month". Phrases such as these are used to describe this inevitable time: Aunt Flo is visiting. I've got to take my unpaid leave. I'm down with the girl flu. I'm on a ketchup diet. Time to hail the red moon. The pai
What's the big deal about thyroid?
We hear lots of things about the thyroid gland, but what is the big deal? What does the thyroid gland do? Where is it? This short article is to give you some basic information about the thyroid gland. The thyroid gland is a butterfly-shaped gland located in the front part of the neck. It is located just in front of the windpipe and is very important for hundreds of bodily functions. One of the main functions of the thyroid is to control metabolism or the way the body uses en
