The Hormone Wellness MD Blog: Women's Health

It’s right after the holidays, and many of us are feeling a little toxic, either from what we ate, drank, stressful holiday travel or strained family relations. I went to yoga today and the teacher offered a suggestion that I found especially helpful. Detox. Detox in...

Many of my patients are under the false impression that most breast cancer is inherited. It’s not. Only about 5-10 % of breast cancer is genetic. There are lots of lifestyle changes that you can start right now to lower your risk of getting breast cancer. If you are a...

This week in clinic I saw several cases of genital herpes. Not only were these patients suffering because they had genital sores, their hearts were broken. Sometimes herpes transmission comes from sex that wasn’t wanted. Sometimes it brings up questions of infidelity...

Many women see me for vaginitis and it’s often a result of the whole system being out of balance. Women can have yeast overgrowth in their intestines that needs to get healed before the vaignal sympoms will resolve. But sometimes, women are using products that are...

Fasting has been used across cultures for centuries. Prolonged fasting can prove both physically and mentally taxing. The fasting mimicking diet is a calorically restricted, low protein diet lasting 3-5 days a month repeated for 3 months and then once monthly. The...

First of all, as I am typing this I am having a flashback to adolescence and hearing an older adult barking at me to “change my attitude” as in “I don’t like that attitude young lady!” That is not the message I am going for here. What I want to talk about today is not...