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Menopause is finally in the spotlight — but most women still don't understand what's happening to their bodies in their late 30s, 40s, and beyond. Even worse, many doctors misdiagnose or dismiss symptoms like brain fog, night sweats, weight gain, and mood swings as “just stress.” About Dr. Alicia Robbins: Dr. Alicia Robbins is a board-certified Gynecologist and Lifestyle Medicine physician, founder of The Elm, and creator of The Robbins Method. She is recognized as a leading voice in perimenopause and midlife health, dedicated to providing compassionate, proactive care and rewriting the narrative on women's midlife. *** Subscribe to The Neuro Experience for more conversations at the intersection of brain science and performance. I'm committed to bringing you evidence-based insights that you can apply to your own health journey. *** A huge thank you to my sponsors for supporting this episode. Check them out and enjoy exclusive discounts: Function Health Visit https://www.functionhealth.com/louisanicola and use code NEURO100 or use gift code NEURO100 at sign-up to own your health. The first 1000 get a $100 credit toward their membership.  FIGSYou can get 15% off your first order at https://www.wearfigs.com with the code FIGSRX.  Honeylove Save 20% Off Honeylove by going to https://www.honeylove.com/neuro. Cowboy Colostrum Get 25% Off with code NEURO at https://www.cowboycolostrum.com. AquaTru Go to https://www.AquaTru.com now for 20% off (your purifier) using promo code NEURO. AquaTru even comes with a 30-day best-tasting water guarantee.  Brickhouse Nutrition Get 20% off when you enter NEURO at https://www.takelean.com. *** I'm Louisa Nicola — clinical neuroscientist — Alzheimer's prevention specialist — founder of Neuro Athletics. My mission is to translate cutting-edge neuroscience into actionable strategies for cognitive longevity, peak performance, and brain disease prevention. If you're committed to optimizing your brain — reducing Alzheimer's risk — and staying mentally sharp for life, you're in the right place. Stay sharp. Stay informed. Join thousands who subscribe to the Neuro Athletics Newsletter → https://bit.ly/3ewI5P0 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/louisanicola_/ Twitter : https://twitter.com/louisanicola_ Follow Dr. Alicia Robbins The Elm: https://theelmgreenwich.com/ Instagram: @aliciarobbinsmd Topics discussed: 00:00:00 — Intro 00:01:32:10 — Menopause is “in the spotlight”; what's actually happening with women's hormones ~35+ 00:02:43:11 — Ovaries as the primary source of estrogen/progesterone/testosterone 00:11:32:08 — Estrogen's role in the brain 00:13:15:05 — With estrogen loss, chronic low-grade brain inflammation 00:15:12:17 — What replaced HRT: rise in sleep aids, antidepressants, and benzodiazepines. 00:32:55:20 — Women's testosterone: low “total T” numbers, variable symptoms/benefit; brain fog and fatigue are multifactorial. 00:33:38:00 — Practical regimen notes: layering hormones; balance affected by stress/cortisol 00:44:14 — Longevity hype vs reality: trendy biohacks vs basics like walking, resistance training, and consistent diet 00:44:34 — Cultural/societal neglect of women's midlife health; undervaluing cognitive preservation in women 00:45:10 — Lack of specialty in menopause medicine; OB/GYN training gaps; bias toward fertility/pregnancy funding 00:47:20 — Emerging shift: younger physicians and social media spreading awareness 00:48:15 — Longevity basics reaffirmed: lifestyle interventions are more impactful than costly interventions 00:49:00 — Empowering women to advocate for care 00:50:12 — Future outlook: preventative care, lifestyle foundations, and individualized hormone therapy for healthy aging 00:54:53: Increase in divorce rate because of hormones? 00:55:53: HRT and risk of breast cancer 00:58:11: What doctor should a woman in her late 30s/early 40s go see? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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You're listening to Burnt Toast! Today, my guest is Mara Gordon, MD.Dr. Mara is a family physician on the faculty of Cooper Medical School of Rowan University, as well as a writer, journalist and contributor to NPR. She also writes the newsletter Your Doctor Friend by Mara Gordon about her efforts to make medicine more fat friendly.Dr. Mara is back today with Part 2 of our conversation about weight, health, perimenopause and menopause! As we discussed last time, finding menopause advice that doesn't come with a side of diet culture is really difficult. Dr Mara is here to help, and she will not sell you a supplement sign or make you wear a weighted vest.This episode is free but if you value this conversation, please consider supporting our work with a paid subscription. Burnt Toast is 100% reader- and listener-supported. We literally can't do this without you.PS. You can always listen to this pod right here in your email, where you'll also receive full transcripts (edited and condensed for clarity). But please also follow us in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, and/or Pocket Casts! And if you enjoy today's conversation, please tap the heart on this post — likes are one of the biggest drivers of traffic from Substack's Notes, so that's a super easy, free way to support the show!And don't miss these:Episode 209 TranscriptVirginiaSo today we're going to move away from the weight stuff a little bit, into some of the other the wide constellation of things that can happen in menopause and perimenopause. Before we get into some nitty gritty stuff, I want to do Laurie's question about hormone replacement therapy, since that is still one of those topics that people are like, Is it good? Is it bad? I don't know.So Laurie asked: Is there a reason why a doctor would not want to prescribe hormone replacement therapy? My doctor seems more willing to treat individual symptoms instead of using HRT. Is that maybe because I'm still getting my period?MaraI love this question. Now my professor hat can nerd out about interpretation of scientific research! So first, I'll just briefly say, Laurie, no big deal that you said HRT. But just so everyone's aware, the preferred term is menopausal hormone therapy, MHT, or just hormone therapy, and it's not a huge deal. But I think the North American Menopause Society now uses “menopausal hormone therapy.” The thinking is, hormones don't necessarily need to be replaced. It comes back to that idea of, menopause is a natural part of life, and so the idea that they would need to be replaced is not totally accurate. VirginiaWe're not trying to get you out of menopause, right? The goal isn't to push you back into some pre-menopausal hormonal state. MaraBut again, not a big deal. You'll see HRT still used, and a lot of doctors still use that term. So I graduated from medical school in 2015 and I remember one of the first times that a patient asked me about using menopausal hormone therapy, I was terrified. And I was still in training, so luckily, I had a mentor who guided me through it. But I had absorbed this very clear message from medical school, which is that menopausal hormone therapy will cause heart disease, cause pulmonary emboli, which are blood clots in the lungs, and cause breast cancer.And I was like, “Ahhh! I'm gonna cause harm to my patients. This is scary.” I had also learned that hot flashes–they weren't life threatening. So a patient could just use a fan and she'd be fine, right? She didn't need medicine for it.VirginiaCool.MaraI think the dismissal of symptoms here is just straight up misogyny. That message of, oh, you should just live with this You're tough, you're a woman, you can do it. This is just the next stage of it. Is just misogyny, right?But the fear of using menopausal hormone therapy has a specific historical context. There was a major study called the Women's Health Initiative, and it was a randomized control trial, which is the gold standard in medical research. People were given estrogen and progestin to treat menopausal symptoms or they were given a placebo, and they didn't know which pill they took. But WHI was actually halted early because they found an increased risk of breast cancer. This was on the front page of The New York Times. It was a really, really big deal. That was 2002 or 2003. So even 15 years later, when I was starting out as a doctor, I was still absorbing its message. And I think a lot of doctors who are still in practice have just deeply absorbed this message.But there's a lot to consider here. The first issue is in the way that information about the Women's Health Initiative was communicated. Nerd out with me for a second here: There is a big difference between absolute risk and relative risk. And this is a really subtle issue that's often communicated poorly in the media.So I looked it up in the initial paper that came out of the Women's Health Initiative. There was a relative risk of 26 percent of invasive breast cancer, right? So that meant that the people who got the estrogen and progestin, as opposed to a placebo, had a relative increased risk of 26 percent compared to the placebo arm.VirginiaWhich sounds scary,MaraSounds terrifying, right? But the absolute risk is the risk in comparison to one another. And they found that if you're a patient taking the estrogen/progestin, your absolute risk was 8 people out of 10,000 women a year would get invasive breast cancer. So it's very, very small.And this is an issue I see in medical journalism all the time. We talk about relative risk, like your risk compared to another group, but the absolute risk remains extremely low.And just to round it out: I looked all this up about cardiovascular events too. Things like a heart attack, a stroke. So the absolute risk was 19. So there were 19 cases of a cardiovascular event out of 10,000 women in a year. People just freaked out about this because of the way that it was covered in the media. VirginiaI was fresh out of college, doing women's health journalism at the time. So I fully own having been part of that problem. We definitely reported on the relative risk, not the absolute risk. And I don't understand why. I look back and I'm like, what were we all doing? We ended up taking this medication away from millions of women who could really benefit from it.MaraI found a paper that showed between 2002 and 2009 prescriptions for menopausal hormone therapy declined by more than 60 percent. VirginiaI'm not surprised. MaraAnd then even up until the time I started my training, right in 2015, we're just seeing a huge decline in hormone therapy prescriptions.One other thing that's also super important to acknowledge about the Women's Health Initiative is that they enrolled women over 60, which is not really representative of women who want or need hormone therapy. So the average age of menopause is 51 and the vast majority of women who are experiencing symptoms that would respond well to hormone therapy are much younger. We're talking here mostly about hot flashes. Which we call vasomotor symptoms of menopause, but it's basically hot flashes. Women dealing with this are much younger, right? So they're approaching menopause, late 40s, and right after the menopausal transition, early 50s, and then they don't necessarily need it anymore, after their symptoms have improved.VirginiaAnd it will also be true that with women in their 60s, you're going to see more incidence of cancer and heart disease in that age group than in women in their 40s anyway, right? MaraRightVirginiaSo even the 19 cases, the eight cases—they were looking at a higher risk population in general. MaraYeah. And so there have been all these subsequent analyses, which is why now we're seeing menopausal hormone therapy sort of on the upswing. There's a lot of increased interest in it. The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommends it, the North American Menopause Society, the British Menopause Society; here's a full run-down. It's not that everybody needs it, and we'll get to that in a second, but it is a totally safe and appropriate treatment for—specifically and most importantly—for vasomotor symptoms of menopause. Like hot flashes. There's been all these further analyses of the Women's Health Initiative data and and then from other studies, too. And basically, it shows that when the hormone therapy is initiated before age 60, or within 10 years of menopause, there's a reduced risk of heart disease and reduced mortality.VirginiaWow! MaraSo the timing matters. Isn't that so interesting? The timing matters.Also, the route of administration matters. So what that means in English is that an estrogen patch seems to have a lower risk of blood clots. So one of those fears of the, you know, initial Women's Health Initiative data was that you might have an increased risk of blood clots. But it's something about the way that the estrogen is metabolized. It's not metabolized through the liver when it's absorbed through the skin, and something about that process seems to decrease the risk of blood clots.So that's why your doctor, if you're interested in menopausal hormone therapy, might recommend an estrogen patch rather than a pill.VirginiaGot it. MaraThere's a lot of ambiguity in all of this data, because, you know, we're talking about just huge numbers of people, and it's hard to sort of isolate variables when you're studying just like massive cohorts of people and trying to understand what you know, what factors affect your risk for which diseases. It's not clear that taking hormones prevents heart disease. And that's one of the big claims I see with menopause influencers, that every single person needs this.The data don't support it at this point in time, and the major menopause organizations do not recommend it as a universal preventative treatment for everybody. But it seems like there might be some sort of association that may become clearer as research continues. That said, now it seems like the pendulum is swinging in the opposite direction. I learned, “be afraid of menopausal hormone treatment.” And now all these menopause influencers are saying everyone should be on hormone therapy.I don't know the answer. And so the way that I try to parse through all of this noise is, you know, go to trusted sources, right? So I stick to society guidelines, like the North American menopause society, the British menopause society, they're run by world experts in menopause.VirginiaOkay, so we don't need to be terrified of hormone therapy, and you can be on it if you're still getting your period right? Just to finish Laurie's question.MaraIf you're still getting a period regularly, you're more in perimenopause than past the menopausal transition. And we will often use contraception to help and that you can have a lot of the same benefits from using contraception in that stage. It's also useful just because unintended pregnancy still can be totally a thing in your 40s. But yes, you can absolutely use traditional regimens of menopausal hormone therapy while you're still getting a period too. Just know it won't prevent pregnancy. VirginiaSince we talked a little bit about hot flashes, I'm gonna jump to Judy's question so we can kind of round that piece out: One of the things I am really struggling with is the way I have lost all ability to regulate temperature. I am boiling hot almost all the time, and the slightest thing makes me break out into a full sweat, which makes me not want to move at all.My doctor has not been super helpful in navigating this. What can I do to mitigate this issue? If anything, it is so very hard for me not to blame the size of my body for this, since the correlation seems so clear, smaller body less sweating, larger body sweating all the dang time.MaraJudy, I empathize first of all. Just one caveat I can't really give medical advice to Judy. There are a lot of things that could be going on, and it's really important that you see a doctor and get a full history and physical exam. But I will say that this is one of the things that menopausal hormone therapy is extremely helpful for, is hot flashes.VirginiaThat was my first thought! MaraThere are a lot of influencers who really overstate the benefits of hormone therapy, right? Hormone therapy is not really going to cause significant weight loss or prevent weight gain. It's not totally clear that it helps with mood symptoms or even sleep is a little more ambiguous. But the one thing it really works for is hot flashes. So that would be my thought: Start there. VirginiaAnd on the feeling like you want to blame your body for it: I don't know if Judy identifies as fat, but as someone who identifies as fat, I often feel like I'm sweatier now than when I was thinner. I run warmer. All my skinny friends will be bundled up in coats, and I still won't be wearing one in October. I do notice that. And I think that this is a situation where that is, even if those two things correlate— you're larger and you're sweatier—is that worth putting yourself through the hell of weight loss? You may decide yes, it is, if hormone therapy doesn't work for you.But that's one of those times where I bring it back to “What would actually make my daily life miserable?” I can drink water, I can be in AC, I'm gonna find a link to this nighttime cooling bed thing that my friend Claire Zulkey really loves. MaraI've heard of those!VirginiaI think there are options to mitigate your suffering with this. Medicine is definitely an option. Before you go to “okay, my body size has to be the thing that changes.”MaraI totally agree. I just deal with this all the time where people tell me in my clinic that they want to lose weight. And when I sort of gently ask, what are you hoping to achieve? What are your goals? They're often things that can be achieved through other means. Like, people say my clothes don't fit, right? And most of my patients are low-income, right? I'm not trying to be flippant about the idea that everyone can just go and purchase a new, you know, multi $1,000 wardrobe at the drop of a hat. But it is possible to get new clothes in affordable ways. Don't torture yourself with clothes that don't fit because you feel like weight gain is a moral failing. And I think that there are things that we can do to help keep us at a comfortable temperature, right wear clothes that feel, you know, that feel good. Air conditioning is an amazing modern invention. And, you know, cool beverages, ice cream. VirginiaPopsicle O'Clock is very important in my summer right now, very important. MaraWait, what's a popsicle clock?VirginiaOh, Popsicle O'Clock. It's just the time of day where you eat popsicles. It could be 9am it could be 4pm just whenever I feel like we need to add popsicles to a situation.MaraI think we all need more popsicles in our life, that is absolutely for sure.So I think what I'm hearing from Judy's question is once again, shame about body size, and also this myopic zooming in on weight loss as the only possible solution. Which I blame doctors for in many ways! Some people do benefit from weight loss, right? I'm not opposed to the idea that anybody would ever want to lose weight. I don't think that that's a betrayal of fat solidarity, necessarily. But that there are other things you can do just to make your life feel better in the meantime, or even if you choose to never pursue weight loss. There are things you can do to feel better, and we shouldn't deprive ourselves of those things.VirginiaAnd you don't know that it is the weight gain. It could be age and hormones, and those coincided with the weight gain for you personally. But there are lots of thin women getting hot flashes all the time too.Okay, this next question is from Michaela: I am super curious about the connection between perimenopause, menopause and mental health symptoms, specifically, an uptick in anxiety and depression. Is this a thing?We also got many questions about whether perimenopause and menopause exacerbate ADHD symptoms. MaraSo this is a question I get a lot from my patients, and I've seen a lot of discourse about online. And the short answer is: There is probably a connection between the hormonal changes of perimenopause and the menopausal transition and mental health. Do we understand it? No. So I mean, with ADHD specifically, I will say: This is really not my area of expertise. It's a very complex mental health condition, and our medical understanding of it is really rapidly evolving. I have many patients who have a diagnosis of ADHD but I'm typically not the one who diagnoses them. That being said: Estrogen affects neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters are implicated in ADHD. Declining estrogen does seem to affect dopamine, in particular, which is implicated in ADHD. And anecdotally, I've had many of my patients say that they feel like their ability to focus and sustain attention decreases. And they experience brain fog as they enter perimenopause and menopause. So it's there's probably something going on, and a lot of researchers are really actively studying it, but we don't know yet.VirginiaDo we know if this is something that hormone therapy can help with?MaraSo I think the answer is, I don't know.VirginiaWhat about anxiety and depression?MaraI don't think the data are there, right? Hormone therapy is usually not considered a first line treatment for the mental health conditions that are often associated with the menopausal transition. But we have great medicines for those conditions. We have good treatments for ADHD, we have good treatments for anxiety and depression. And sometimes during the menopausal transition, patients might need an increase of those treatments. And that could mean going back into therapy, if you've been out of therapy, increasing your medications or restarting a med that you may have stopped years ago. Those are all totally valid approaches during this phase.And I guess what I'd say, is that it's okay to trust your body. And if you notice changes in your mental health associated with perimenopause or menopause itself, ask about it. Don't be afraid to advocate for yourself. And while hormone therapy doesn't look like it is an effective treatment specifically for those symptoms, there are other treatments, and you should feel empowered to ask about them.VirginiaThe next question goes back to some of the diet and exercise stuff we've touched on. This person writes: Since recently reaching menopause, my cholesterol has become high. I understand there is a proven link between menopause and increased cholesterol, and that weight is part of the picture. I'm trying to lower my cholesterol with focus on nutrition and exercise. But it is f*****g with my head because it feels like a very restrictive diet. I'd love any thoughts on the menopause cholesterol connection and keeping cholesterol low with nutrition and exercise without falling into the abyss of obsessing about how many almonds I've eaten.MaraOh, that is such a good question!VirginiaThe almond of it all. MaraAlmonds are really good in some scenarios, but also just like, kind of a sad snack. I always think about President Obama eating those, like, eight almonds, or whatever.VirginiaIt turns out that was a joke and he wasn't doing that. But just the fact that everybody assumed he would says a lot! MaraThat is hilarious, and I didn't know! And it just shows how with information online, the initial story sticks. Like to this day, 10 years later, I still thought that Barack Obama ate eight almonds as his indulgent midnight snack every single night. I hope the man is eating some ice cream and living his best life. Okay, so there is absolutely a link between menopause and elevated risk of cardiovascular disease. But even within the term cholesterol, there are different types. I wouldn't really say to a patient, “Your cholesterol is high.” One thing you might hear is “your LDL cholesterol is high,” which is known popularly as, the “bad” cholesterol. Which, again, moral language alert. But LDL cholesterol is a proxy for risk of cardiovascular disease. I will say it's not a great one; it's kind of a blunt instrument. We measure and we treat it, because we don't have other great ways of predicting cardiovascular risk. But it is not the full portrait, although it's certainly a risk factor for developing cardiovascular disease. And the transition of menopause seems to impact LDL, cholesterol, other biomarkers of cardiovascular disease, and increases your risk for cardiovascular disease.And what's interesting–I think we talked about this a little bit already, is that this happens, this this risk happens independent of normal aging.So, for example, women who go through menopause early start developing this increased risk earlier than women who go through menopause slightly later. And overall, we see that women develop cardiovascular disease, at rates lower than men, and at later in life than men. And there's a hypothesis that this has to do with menopause, right? That there's a protective effect of estrogen, but then when your estrogen starts to decline in menopause, it puts women at an increased risk compared to where they were pre-menopause.There's also some data to suggest that the severity of menopause symptoms—particularly vasomotor symptoms like hot flashes or sleep disturbances—may indicate risk for developing cardiovascular disease. So this is not to scare everyone, but it's good to have knowledge. If you're having really severe hot flashes, it may indicate that you are at slightly higher risk for developing cardiovascular disease than somebody who is not. The intention of having this knowledge is not to make you feel shame, and not to berate you for your belly fat or whatever. It's to have knowledge so that you can help mitigate risk factors in ways that feel aligned with your values and ways that feel aligned with the way that you want to pursue health in your life.And so I would approach this reader's or this listener's question with smy same approach to all of my patients questions. “I have hypertension, does that mean I need to lose weight?” “I have diabetes, does that mean I need to lose weight?” The answer is that we have many treatments that can help you address these concerns independent of weight loss. But this is not to say that you cannot pursue weight loss too, right? And if using a GLP-1 agonist to reduce your visceral adiposity is aligned with your values, and you can tolerate the side effects, and you feel good about it, and it's covered by your insurance….that's totally a reasonable approach. But it's not the only one. So I think what I'm hearing from this patient is the menopause flavor of what I do every single day in my work as a size inclusive doctor. Which is: How can we disentangle weight stigma and body shame from these questions of how to lead a healthy life? And the idea of giving you more information, I hope, is not to shame you or make you feel guilt for the relationship between body size and risk of cardiovascular disease, but instead, to give you information that might help you take proactive care of your body, right?And proactive care might mean committing to an exercise routine. Proactive care might mean taking a statin. A statin is a very common cholesterol medicine like Lipitor. It might mean getting your blood pressure under control and taking an antihypertensive.VirginiaI also want to say on cholesterol, specifically, I did a piece that I'll link to digging into the connection between nutrition and cholesterol. And the data is not as strong as I think a lot of doctors are telling folks.And I think the benefit of making dietary changes—the amount it could lower cholesterol—was not huge. It was like three points or six points or something in one of the studies we looked at. So if it's making you crazy to count almonds, it's possible that medication might be a more health promoting strategy for you. Because it will be less stressful and it will have a bigger benefit on your cholesterol than just trying to control it through diet and exercise.MaraYeah, I totally agree. I think there's a really strong genetic component that we haven't fully understood and medication is a totally reasonable approach and very safe approach. Honestly, statins are pretty benign medications. They're pretty inexpensive, pretty minimal side effects, which is not to say– nobody's paying me from the statin companies, I swear to God!–but yeah, like they're, they're pretty benign as medications go. And I think it's a totally reasonable way to approach this issue.VirginiaI just think it's one of those times where this is shame coming in, where it's like, “You should be able to fix this with how you eat and exercise, and so you don't get the medication unless you fail at that!” This is a framing that I've encountered from doctors. But what if we gave the medication, what if we also consider diet and exercise, but don't make that a pass/fail situation in order to earn the medication? MaraYeah, that's really interesting.And even the language you're using Virginia is what we use in the medical record, and I've tried to stop it. But the way we're taught to describe patients, is “patient failed XYZ treatment,” right? And I feel like we're both at once, overly invested in pharmaceutical treatments, right and underinvested. They're a very useful tool. And we moralize it, both pro and con? Sometimes, like, we moralize in favor of it. So if your BMI is 26 or above, you need to be on a GLP one agonist, which is just false, right?But on the other hand, I think we often underutilize medications because there's this sense that you're getting at —that you have to exhaust all of your like willpower options first, and it's somehow failing to use a med. And that is really false too. They're really useful tools. Science is really useful, and we shouldn't feel ashamed to use it.VirginiaAll right. And our last question, I like because it just will give us a chance to kind of sum up some key points: As a post menopausal woman, I feel like I'm swimming in information, and I'm overwhelmed by it all. What are Dr Gordon's top three pieces of advice out of all of the WHO meaning, if women at this time only did these three things, it would make the biggest difference, and then they just had it. You know, is, does it need to be different for perimenopause versus post menopause? Or maybe not.So what are your top three? Top three tips for surviving this life stage?MaraOh, my God, if only I knew! I'm flattered that you're asking, and I will do my best to answer, but I don't think there's a right answer at all.So I've thought about a couple things. I will say that, you know, longevity and wellness and health span is extremely complicated, but it's also kind of simple, right?So sometimes the advice that we've just heard over and over again is actually really, really good, right? So, sleep. Are we sleeping enough?Staying engaged with social relationships, that seems to be extremely important for longevity. And it's kind of amazing, actually. When they do these long-term studies on people who are thriving into old age, like they have really strong relationships. And that is so important.Moving our bodies and it does not need to be punishing. Workouts can be gardening. I know Virginia, I love receiving your gardening content online. Gardening is an amazing form of exercise, and can be very life affirming, and does not need to feel like punishment. Just getting up, moving our bodies, sleeping enough, maintaining relationships, cultivating a sense of purpose and meaning in our lives. It's actually been really studied right, that people who have a sense of meaning and have a sense of purpose in their lives tend to live longer and live longer, healthier lives.So all of this is to say that like it's complicated, but sometimes it's not. And there are a million people on the Internet who want to sell you a miracle drug, a miracle supplement, a miracle weighted vest, whatever. But sometimes simple, Simple is good. Easier said than done, right?VirginiaYeah, but start simple. That's wonderful.MaraCan I ask? Virginia, what would your advice be? VirginiaI love the three areas you hit on: Sleep, social relations and exercise or moving your body. None of those are about weight loss or dieting. I think that's really helpful for us to keep in mind that the things that might protect our health the most can also be very joyful as well. The idea that doing things that makes you happy and reduce your stress can be health-promoting is great. And I think that's something especially in midlife. We are all incredibly busy. We're holding a lot of things together. A lot of us are caregivers, maybe sandwich generation caregivers. So prioritizing your own joy in that feels really wonderful.ButterVirginiaAll right, so speaking of joy, let's do some Butter! Dr. Mara, what do you have forus?MaraI have a Philadelphia-specific one, but hopefully it can be extrapolated to our listeners in different locations. So I have recently been really craving soft serve ice cream. And so I googled best soft serve in Philadelphia, and I found this Vietnamese coffee shop called Càphê Roasters, which is in North Philly. In a neighborhood called Kensington. And it has condensed milk soft serve ice cream. So good.And so I recently, I had to give a lecture at a medical school in the north part of the city early in the morning. It was like, 8am and I was like, “Oh, I'm never up in this neighborhood. I gotta get over there.” And I went after I gave my lecture, and I bought myself ice cream at 10:30 in the morning. And I ate it in my car, and it was so good. Condensed milk. So good. But soft serve in general, is my Butter. But for those of you in Philly, go to Càphê Roasters in Kensington and get the condensed milk. It is chef's kiss, delicious.VirginiaAmazing. I'm gonna double your Butter and say ice cream in general is my Butter right now. We have a spare fridge freezer that I have just been loading up with all of the popsicles to get us through summer. But also: Ice cream dates. Something that comes up a lot for me as a co-parent is figuring out how to have one on one time with my kids. Since we have joint custody, they move as a package. So I get kid-free time, which is wonderful, but when they're with me, it's just me. So one thing I've been figuring out is pockets of time when I can take one kid out for ice cream. It's usually when a sibling is at another activity, and so we have an hour to kill, and often we would just like, wait for the activity, or go home and come back, and then you're just driving.And now I'm like, No, that will be our ice cream break!MaraI love that.VirginiaSo one kid's at the library doing her book trivia team stuff, and the other kid and I are getting ice cream while we wait for her. And it's great one on one time with kids. Obviously, the ice cream is delicious. The other thing I've realized, especially if you have younger kids who are still building restaurant skills, ice cream is a great practice run at being a person in a restaurant, which is really hard for kids understandably. It is one food thing that they're excited to go do. And you do have to sit and practice eating it somewhat neatly. There's a high mess potential. My pro-move for that is, always have wipes in your car, bring a pack of wipes in. MaraI love that, and it's so intentional about sort of creating traditions with kids. That feels really special. But I will say I had my ice cream solo, and that was also really good solo ice cream too.The Burnt Toast Podcast is produced and hosted by Virginia Sole-Smith (follow me on Instagram) and Corinne Fay, who runs @SellTradePlus, and Big Undies.The Burnt Toast logo is by Deanna Lowe.Our theme music is by Farideh.Tommy Harron is our audio engineer.Thanks for listening and for supporting anti-diet, body liberation journalism! This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit virginiasolesmith.substack.com/subscribe

Most of us got the puberty talk—but almost no one got the menopause talk. It's time to change that. And Dr. Lauren Streicher is here this week to do just that!   Together we explore:   Why menopause is a whole-body experience, not just “hot flashes and periods stopping.” What perimenopause actually is, when it starts, and why the definition of menopause itself is outdated. How mood changes, anxiety, and sleep issues are often hormone-driven—and why SSRIs aren't always the right first step. Why shame and secrecy around menopause and sexuality have left so many women in the dark. How to talk to our daughters (and sons!) about the full reproductive life cycle from puberty through menopause, without stigma or shame. The difference between misinformation online and evidence-based solutions—and red flags to watch for when seeking care. What questions to ask your doctor to know if they're truly menopause-informed. Why preparing before symptoms begin can empower women to feel confident, validated, and supported in midlife and beyond.   Menopause is so much more than the stereotypes we've been taught and this episode will leave you with clarity, tools, and a sense of empowerment to navigate this transition with confidence.     LEARN MORE ABOUT MY GUEST:

The Smart 7 is an award winning daily podcast, in association with METRO that gives you everything you need to know in 7 minutes, at 7am, 7 days a week...With over 18 million downloads and consistently charting, including as No. 1 News Podcast on Spotify, we're a trusted source for people every day and the Sunday 7 won a Gold Award as “Best Conversation Starter” in the International Signal Podcast Awards If you're enjoying it, please follow, share, or even post a review, it all helps...Today's episode includes the following guests:Guests Al Gore - Former US Vice President and Climate Change activistDesmond Alugnoa - CEO of the GAYO recycling project in GhanaNinna Granucci - Co- Founder of Ferment'UpTasha and Natalie - Earthshot Youth Leaders Will Guyatt - The Smart 7's Tech Guru Amy Rylance - Assistant Director of Health Improvement at Prostate Cancer UK Dermot Murnaghan - Former Sky News Anchor Luke Ablitt - Potato farmer in Peterborough David Barton - Beef farmer in the Cotswold'sElspeth McDonald - CEO of the Scottish Fisherman's Federation Professor Bassel Watter - Consultant Obstetrician and Gynecologist, and Associate Professor of Reproductive Medicine at Anglia Ruskin University Doctor Ippokratis Sarris - Director at King's Fertility, Kings College London Paul Leader - Ecologist and Ornithologist Contact us over @TheSmart7pod or visit www.thesmart7.com or find out more at www.metro.co.uk Presented by Ciara Revins, written by Liam Thompson, researched by Lucie Lewis and produced by Daft Doris. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In his weekly clinical update, Dr. Griffin with Vincent Racaniello are dismayed about the recent attack on public health the firing of the director of the CDC as well as resignation of 3 others members of the agency's leadership, the continued Legionnaire's outbreak in Harlem, suspension of Ixchiq the Chikungunya virus attenuated infectious vaccine, the first US case of New World screwworm before Dr. Griffin deep dives into recent statistics on the measles epidemic, RSV, influenza and SARS-CoV-2 infections, the Wasterwater Scan dashboard, Johns Hopkins measles tracker, association Guillian-Barré syndrome with RSV vaccination, guidelines for using RSV vaccines, whether or not the NB.1.8.1 should be included in the fall 2025 vaccines, the American College Obstetricians and Gynecologists recommendations for the COVID, RSV and influenza vaccines, FDA approval letters for Pfizer, moderna and Novagax COVID vaccines including label changes for use in those between 5 through 64 years, where to find PEMGARDA, long COVID treatment center, where to go for answers to your long COVID questions, and contacting your federal government representative to stop the assault on science and biomedical research. 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Routine vaginal examinations (VEs) are a standard component of intrapartum care, traditionally performed at regular intervals to monitor cervical dilation, effacement, and fetal station, which are indicators of labor progression. Yet, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists states that there is insufficient evidence to recommend a specific frequency for cervical examinations during labor, and examinations should be performed as clinically indicated. Now, a recently published RCT form AJOG MFM is adding additional credence to that. Can we space out clinical exams in otherwise “low-risk” laboring women to 8 hours? Listen in for details. 1. AJOG MFM: (08/18/25) Routine Vaginal Examination Scheduled At 8 vs 4 Hours In Multiparous Women In Early Spontaneous Labour: A Randomised Controlled Trial https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S25899333250016122. Nashreen CM, Hamdan M, Hong J, et al.Routine Vaginal Examination to Assess Labor Progress at 8 Compared to 4 h After Early Amniotomy Following Foley Balloon Ripening in the Labor Induction of Nulliparas: A Randomized Trial. Acta Obstetricia Et Gynecologica Scandinavica. 2024;103(12):2475-2484. doi:10.1111/aogs.14975.3. First and Second Stage Labor Management: ACOG Clinical Practice Guideline No. 8. Obstetrics and Gynecology. 2024;143(1):144-162. doi:10.1097/AOG.0000000000005447.4. Moncrieff G, Gyte GM, Dahlen HG, et al. Routine Vaginal Examinations Compared to Other Methods for Assessing Progress of Labour to Improve Outcomes for Women and Babies at Term. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 2022;3:CD010088. doi:10.1002/14651858.CD010088.pub3.5. Gluck, O., et al. (2020). The correlation between the number of vaginal examinations during active labor and febrile morbidity, a retrospective cohort study. [BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth]6. Pan, WL., Chen, LL. & Gau, ML. Accuracy of non-invasive methods for assessing the progress of labor in the first stage: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth 22, 608 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12884-022-04938-y

As women enter perimenopause and menopause, hormonal shifts—declining estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone—can ripple through nearly every system in the body, impacting bone density, cardiovascular health, metabolism, brain function, and sexual wellbeing. Misinterpretation of past research left millions fearful of hormone therapy, yet newer evidence shows that bioidentical hormones, started within a specific “window of opportunity,” can protect the heart, brain, bones, and quality of life. Supporting this transition in a woman's life also means addressing nutrition, gut health, stress, sleep, and strength training—powerful tools that work alongside hormones to restore vitality. With the right knowledge and care, this phase of life can be transformational, leading to renewal, resilience, and long-term health protection. In this episode, I explore, along with Dr. Mary Claire Haver and Dr. Cindy Geyer, how we can shift our thinking of peri-menopause and menopause to one of renewed health and vitality. Mary Claire Haver, MD, FACOG, CMP, is a board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist, Certified Culinary Medicine Specialist, and Menopause Society Certified Menopause Practitioner. A graduate of Louisiana State University Medical Center with residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch, she is the founder of Mary Claire Wellness, a clinic dedicated to comprehensive menopause care. In 2023, she launched ThePauseLife.com, a global resource for menopausal women, and became a #1 New York Times bestselling author with The New Menopause. Her first book, The Galveston Diet (2023), reflects her passion for evidence-based lifestyle strategies to support women's health. With over 4 million social media followers, Dr. Haver is a leading voice in “demystifying menopause,” empowering women to self-advocate and thrive through every stage of midlife. Dr. Cindy Geyer received her bachelor of science and her doctor of medicine degrees, with honors, from the Ohio State University. She completed residency in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, N.Y. and is triple board certified in internal medicine, integrative medicine and lifestyle medicine. This episode is brought to you by BIOptimizers. Head to bioptimizers.com/hyman and use code HYMAN to save 15%. Full-length episodes can be found here: Your Guide to Menopause: What to Expect and How to Thrive Menopause Relief: Hormone Tips Every Woman Needs To Know Is Hormone Replacement Therapy in Menopause Helpful or Harmful

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The daily challenges and emotional toll of living with dense breast tissue and a heightened risk of breast cancer: Host Lisa Malia sat down with guest Caitlin Moyer to discuss a subject often overlooked.   Through Caitlin's candid narrative, listeners gain a window into the multi-layered journey many women face—from confusing mammogram results and insurance battles to the importance of building networks of support and advocating for oneself in a complicated medical system.   Stories like Caitlin's aren't just personal; they're powerful tools for education and community. A significant turning point in Caitlin's journey was realizing the crucial role of self-advocacy—especially when faced with conflicting or careless advice. She trusted her instincts, questioned the guidance, and ultimately chose to find a new gynecologist who aligned better with her needs.   Timestamps:    00:00 Caitlin Moyer's Breast Health Journey   05:29 Gynecologist's Troublesome Mammogram Recommendaition   09:00 "Advocacy and Proactive Healthcare"   10:22 Mammogram Controversy with OB GYN   15:04 Considering Preventive Mastectomy   16:38 Dense Tissue & Mastectomy Decision   21:29 Advocating for Necessary Healthcare Access   25:18 "Share Your Story Openly"   27:58 Genetic Risk and Double Mastectomy   30:10 Gratitude for conversation   Learn more about The Clear Pathways Program, Walk, Summit, App and Initiative powered by For The Love Of Cups and join our task force or advisory board: https://www.breastdensitysummit.org/   Caitlin Moyer is a passionate writer and storyteller who runs her own communications and marketing consulting agency, specializing in creative strategy, public relations, and social media. Before launching her business, Caitlin spent 18 seasons with the Milwaukee Brewers, where she founded the team's New Media department and led social media strategy, helping the Brewers become a leader in fan engagement. Her diverse client roster spans sports and beyond, including PGA Tour events, the Green Bay Packers, Indiana Pacers, U.S. Speedskating, and the Wisconsin State Golf Association.   Caitlin also serves as an adjunct professor at Marquette University, where she teaches an emerging media class. Deeply committed to golf and fitness, Caitlin is a registered yoga teacher and a NASM-certified personal trainer with a specialization in golf fitness. Most mornings, before working with her business clients, she can be found in the gym or studio leading group classes or one-on-one sessions. In her free time, she enjoys playing golf, running, and practicing yoga.   Website: https://www.CaitlinMoyer.com Instagram: / caitlinmoyer       #densebreast #breastmri #breastdensity #nonprofitleadership

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Trump has been in office for 200 days. In those 200 days, important institutions core to democracy have been dismantled. The rule of law has been challenged in countless ways—increasingly violent ICE raids and disappearances, dismantling of important agencies, canceling of funding for public broadcasts, significant rollbacks of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)  initiatives, draconian cuts to healthcare and social services, executive orders singling out queer and trans people, and much more.But we've also seen a coordinated effort to resist him, with millions across the country taking to the streets again and again to protest on behalf of the rights of their neighbors, their families, and themselves. Attorneys and advocates are also stepping up, demanding courts to defend our rights. Two hundred days in, what have we learned—and what's  the playbook for the next four years?Helping us to sort out these questions and set the record straight is our very special guest, Skye Perryman: Skye L. Perryman is President and CEO of Democracy Forward, a nonpartisan, national legal organization that promotes democracy and progress through litigation, regulatory engagement, policy education, and research. She previously served as Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Check out this episode's landing page at MsMagazine.com for a full transcript, links to articles referenced in this episode, further reading and ways to take action.Support the show

Recently, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists rejected federal funding in response to the current US administration's polices. We talk about what this means.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists released new clinical guidance on April 17, 2025 that recommends, as they see it, reimagining prenatal care in the U.S. Instead of the traditional 12–14 in‑person visits, ACOG now advocates for individualized prenatal care schedules—especially for average‑ and low‑risk patients—tailored based on medical, social, and structural determinants of health as well as patient preferences The guidance encourages early needs assessments (ideally before 10 weeks), shared decision‑making, coordination of social support resources, telemedicine, and group care modalities to reduce barriers and drive equity  Drawing on the PATH framework developed with the University of Michigan, ACOG presents sample visit schedules and monitoring strategies reflecting evidence that fewer visits—with flexible modalities—can maintain quality while improving access and patient experience As clinicans who have been offering unparalleled care for decades, find out what Dr. Abdelhak and his team at Maternal Resources think of groundbreaking this new update.    YouTube: Dive deeper into pregnancy tips and stories atyoutube.com/maternalresources . Instagram: Follow us for daily inspiration and updates at @maternalresources . Facebook: Join our community at facebook.com/IntegrativeOB Tiktok: NatureBack Doc on TikTok Grab Our Book! Check out The NatureBack Method for Birth—your guide to a empowered pregnancy and delivery. Shop now at naturebackbook.myshopify.com .

intimate Hygiene म्हणजे नक्की काय? अंतर्भागाची काळजी घेताना आपण कोणत्या चुका करतो?लैंगिक संबंधानंतर दोघांनी कोणती स्वच्छता पाळायला हवी? वयाच्या विविध टप्प्यावर स्त्रियांनी कोणती काळजी घ्यावी?मासिक पाळी दरम्यान कोणती काळजी घेणं गरजेचं आहे? स्त्री पुरुष दोघांसाठी intimate Hygiene का आवश्यक आहे? अंडरगारमेंट्स कसे निवडावे? कपड्यांची निवड intimate hygiene वर कसा परिणाम करते? मार्केटमध्ये मिळणाऱ्या intimate washes आणि deodorants खरंच सुरक्षित आहेत का? या विषयावर आपण डॉ. पल्लवी अहिरे शेळके (MD, DNB, DDV (Gold), Founder SkinEthics Clinic) आणि डॉ.गोरख मंद्रुपकर (Gynecologist & Fertility Expert) यांच्यासोबत खुसपुस केली आहे पूर्ण एपिसोड नक्की बघा.What exactly is intimate hygiene? How can poor intimate hygiene impact our health? What common mistakes do we make in maintaining intimate care? What hygiene practices should both partners follow after sexual intercourse? How should women care for their intimate health at different stages of life? What precautions are essential during menstruation? Why is intimate hygiene important for both men and women? How should undergarments be chosen, and how does the type of clothing we wear affect intimate hygiene? Are the intimate washes and deodorants available in the market truly safe to use? In this insightful episode of Khuspus, we engage in an open and informative conversation with Dr. Pallavi Ahire Shelke (MD, DNB, DDV – Gold Medalist, Founder of SkinEthics Clinic) and Dr. Gorakh Mandrupkar (Gynecologist & Fertility Expert). Together, we explore the often-ignored but essential aspects of intimate hygiene that are crucial for maintaining overall health and well-being. Don't miss the full episode—this is a conversation that truly mattersआणि मित्रांनो आपलं Merch घेण्यासाठी लगेच click करा! Amuktamuk.swiftindi.comDisclaimer: व्हिडिओमध्ये किंवा आमच्या कोणत्याही चॅनेलवर पॅनलिस्ट/अतिथी/होस्टद्वारे सांगण्यात आलेली कोणतीही माहिती केवळ general information साठी आहे. पॉडकास्ट दरम्यान किंवा त्यासंबंधात व्यक्त केलेली कोणतीही मते निर्माते/कंपनी/चॅनल किंवा त्यांच्या कोणत्याही कर्मचाऱ्यांची मते/अभिव्यक्ती/विचार दर्शवत नाहीत.अतिथींनी केलेली विधाने सद्भावनेने आणि चांगल्या हेतूने केलेली आहेत ती विश्वास ठेवण्याजोगी आहेत किंवा ती सत्य आणि वस्तुस्थितीनुसार सत्य मानण्याचे कारण आहे. चॅनलने सादर केलेला सध्याचा व्हिडिओ केवळ माहिती आणि मनोरंजनाच्या उद्देशाने आहे आणि चॅनल त्याची अचूकता आणि वैधता यासाठी कोणतीही जबाबदारी घेत नाही.अतिथींनी किंवा पॉडकास्ट दरम्यान व्यक्त केलेली कोणतीही माहिती किंवा विचार व्यक्ती/कास्ट/समुदाय/वंश/धर्म यांच्या भावना दुखावण्याचा किंवा कोणत्याही संस्था/राजकीय पक्ष/राजकारणी/नेत्याचा, जिवंत किंवा मृत यांचा अपमान करण्याचा हेतू नाही.. Guests: Dr. Gorakh Mandrupkar (Gynecologist & Fertility Expert),Dr. Pallavi Ahire Shelke (MD, DNB, DDV – Gold Medalist, Founder of SkinEthics Clinic) Host: Omkar Jadhav.Creative Producer: Shardul Kadam.Editor:.Rameshwar Garkal.Edit Assistant: Rohit Landge.Content Manager: Sohan Mane.Social Media Manager: Sonali Gokhale.Legal Advisor: Savani Vaze.Business Development Executive: Sai Kher.Intern: Mrunal Arve.About The Host Omkar Jadhav.Co-founder – Amuk Tamuk Podcast NetworkPodcast Host | Writer | Director | Actor | YouTube & Podcast ConsultantWith 8+ years in digital content, former Content & Programming Head at BhaDiPa & Vishay Khol.Directed 100+ sketches, 3 web series & non-fiction shows including Aai & Me, Jhoom, 9 to 5, Oddvata.Creative Producer – BErojgaar | Asst. Director – The Kerala StoryHost of Khuspus – a podcast on taboo and uncomfortable topics.Visiting Faculty – Ranade Institute, Pune University.Connect with us: Twitter: https://twitter.com/amuk_tamukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/amuktamuk/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amuktamukpodcastsSpotify: Khuspus #AmukTamuk #marathipodcasts

intimate Hygiene म्हणजे नक्की काय? अंतर्भागाची काळजी घेताना आपण कोणत्या चुका करतो?लैंगिक संबंधानंतर दोघांनी कोणती स्वच्छता पाळायला हवी? वयाच्या विविध टप्प्यावर स्त्रियांनी कोणती काळजी घ्यावी?मासिक पाळी दरम्यान कोणती काळजी घेणं गरजेचं आहे? स्त्री पुरुष दोघांसाठी intimate Hygiene का आवश्यक आहे? अंडरगारमेंट्स कसे निवडावे? कपड्यांची निवड intimate hygiene वर कसा परिणाम करते? मार्केटमध्ये मिळणाऱ्या intimate washes आणि deodorants खरंच सुरक्षित आहेत का? या विषयावर आपण डॉ. पल्लवी अहिरे शेळके (MD, DNB, DDV (Gold), Founder SkinEthics Clinic) आणि डॉ.गोरख मंद्रुपकर (Gynecologist & Fertility Expert) यांच्यासोबत खुसपुस केली आहे पूर्ण एपिसोड नक्की बघा.What exactly is intimate hygiene? How can poor intimate hygiene impact our health? What common mistakes do we make in maintaining intimate care? What hygiene practices should both partners follow after sexual intercourse? How should women care for their intimate health at different stages of life? What precautions are essential during menstruation? Why is intimate hygiene important for both men and women? How should undergarments be chosen, and how does the type of clothing we wear affect intimate hygiene? Are the intimate washes and deodorants available in the market truly safe to use? In this insightful episode of Khuspus, we engage in an open and informative conversation with Dr. Pallavi Ahire Shelke (MD, DNB, DDV – Gold Medalist, Founder of SkinEthics Clinic) and Dr. Gorakh Mandrupkar (Gynecologist & Fertility Expert). Together, we explore the often-ignored but essential aspects of intimate hygiene that are crucial for maintaining overall health and well-being. Don't miss the full episode—this is a conversation that truly mattersआणि मित्रांनो आपलं Merch घेण्यासाठी लगेच click करा! Amuktamuk.swiftindi.comDisclaimer: व्हिडिओमध्ये किंवा आमच्या कोणत्याही चॅनेलवर पॅनलिस्ट/अतिथी/होस्टद्वारे सांगण्यात आलेली कोणतीही माहिती केवळ general information साठी आहे. पॉडकास्ट दरम्यान किंवा त्यासंबंधात व्यक्त केलेली कोणतीही मते निर्माते/कंपनी/चॅनल किंवा त्यांच्या कोणत्याही कर्मचाऱ्यांची मते/अभिव्यक्ती/विचार दर्शवत नाहीत.अतिथींनी केलेली विधाने सद्भावनेने आणि चांगल्या हेतूने केलेली आहेत ती विश्वास ठेवण्याजोगी आहेत किंवा ती सत्य आणि वस्तुस्थितीनुसार सत्य मानण्याचे कारण आहे. चॅनलने सादर केलेला सध्याचा व्हिडिओ केवळ माहिती आणि मनोरंजनाच्या उद्देशाने आहे आणि चॅनल त्याची अचूकता आणि वैधता यासाठी कोणतीही जबाबदारी घेत नाही.अतिथींनी किंवा पॉडकास्ट दरम्यान व्यक्त केलेली कोणतीही माहिती किंवा विचार व्यक्ती/कास्ट/समुदाय/वंश/धर्म यांच्या भावना दुखावण्याचा किंवा कोणत्याही संस्था/राजकीय पक्ष/राजकारणी/नेत्याचा, जिवंत किंवा मृत यांचा अपमान करण्याचा हेतू नाही.. Guests: Dr. Gorakh Mandrupkar (Gynecologist & Fertility Expert),Dr. Pallavi Ahire Shelke (MD, DNB, DDV – Gold Medalist, Founder of SkinEthics Clinic) Host: Omkar Jadhav.Creative Producer: Shardul Kadam.Editor:.Rameshwar Garkal.Edit Assistant: Rohit Landge.Content Manager: Sohan Mane.Social Media Manager: Sonali Gokhale.Legal Advisor: Savani Vaze.Business Development Executive: Sai Kher.Intern: Mrunal Arve.About The Host Omkar Jadhav.Co-founder – Amuk Tamuk Podcast NetworkPodcast Host | Writer | Director | Actor | YouTube & Podcast ConsultantWith 8+ years in digital content, former Content & Programming Head at BhaDiPa & Vishay Khol.Directed 100+ sketches, 3 web series & non-fiction shows including Aai & Me, Jhoom, 9 to 5, Oddvata.Creative Producer – BErojgaar | Asst. Director – The Kerala StoryHost of Khuspus – a podcast on taboo and uncomfortable topics.Visiting Faculty – Ranade Institute, Pune University.Connect with us: Twitter: https://twitter.com/amuk_tamukInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/amuktamuk/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amuktamukpodcastsSpotify: Khuspus #AmukTamuk #marathipodcasts

A show segment got Amy really injured and she's still trying to heal. She shares updates on her boyfriend, her podcast relaunch, and perimenopause. Morgan has a realization about having a male gynecologist and shares the thing she's really nervous about right now. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The "Moment of The Day" featured Boomer witnessing horse insemination as a child and gynecologist Dr. Dan accidentally eating a donkey penis.

Send us a textWelcome to another inspiring episode of the Stories to Create Podcast, where we share journeys of resilience, purpose, and real-world impact. I'm your host, Cornell Bunting, and today I have the privilege of sitting down with Dr. Eeka Marshall—a renowned Obstetrician and Gynecologist who has devoted her career to advancing women's health and empowering communities.In this episode, Dr. Marshall opens up about her path to medicine, the obstacles she's overcome, and her unwavering commitment to supporting the health and well-being of women, especially those in underserved areas. Her story is a powerful example of perseverance and service, and it beautifully reflects the mission of EHAS Inc.—my nonprofit organization dedicated to uplifting youth and transforming lives through storytelling.Together, we'll explore the roots of Dr. Marshall's passion for healthcare and the moments that inspired her to pursue obstetrics and gynecology. We'll talk about the challenges she faced on her journey to becoming a doctor, and how her resilience can motivate young listeners—especially those from underprivileged backgrounds.We'll also dive into crucial topics around health education and awareness:What should young women and men understand about reproductive health?What myths and misconceptions exist around women's health, and how can we address them?How can parents and educators better support teens as they learn about their bodies and make important health choices?Dr. Marshall will also help us shine a light on healthcare disparities in underserved communities, offering insight into what can be done to close those gaps. We'll discuss the role nonprofits and community leaders, like those of us at EHAS Inc., can play in collaborating with medical professionals to bring about meaningful change.Mental and emotional health are also on the table, as Dr. Marshall shares how she supports mothers and young women holistically in her practice.Finally, for our young listeners who dream of careers in medicine, Dr. Marshall will share practical advice and encouragement, along with her hopes for the future of women's health in the coming decade.If you're inspired by this conversation and want to support our work uplifting underprivileged youth in Southwest Florida, please visit www.ehasinc.org.Let's dive in and discover how every story has the power to uplift and transform! Support the showThank you for tuning in with EHAS CLUB - Stories to Create Podcast

Dr. Stoehr, a specialist in pelvic and sexual pain, shares her journey in medicine, the stigmas surrounding pelvic pain, and the importance of comprehensive care and proper diagnosis. This episode also explores non-surgical treatments, the critical role of psychological elements in pain management, and practical advice for lifestyle-affirming practices in non-monogamous relationships. Discover actionable tips for advocating for your health, navigating difficult conversations, and ensuring a fulfilling sexual health journey.01:35 Dr. Stoehr's Journey into Pelvic and Sexual Pain03:10 Misconceptions, Stigmas, and Psychological Impact in Pelvic and Sexual Pain07:51 When to See a Specialist for Pelvic Pain12:11 Non-Surgical Treatments for Pelvic Pain17:37 Advocating for Non-Narcotic Pain Management19:09 Addressing Shame and Cultural Barriers in Sexual Health23:37 Navigating Non-Monogamy and Affirming Care 25:48 Finding Lifestyle-Affirming Healthcare Providers27:03 Discussing Sexual Health and Safety35:20 Communication and Relationship Dynamics39:48 Managing Pelvic Pain and Sexual DysfunctionDr. Stoehr is a Gynecologist specializing in pelvic and sexual pain and sexual dysfunction. She has additional interests in narcotic free surgery and the intersection of medicine and alternative sexual lifestyles. She is passionate about making sure that people in the LS are able to obtain the highest levels of healthcare without fear of prejudice or bias.Connect with Dr. Stoehrhttps://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYzoek71uQA7YgnG3a2BA1w- YOU Tube Channelwww.swingingsafe.com- Swinging website full of education and helpful videos.Connect with Paige BondInstagram: @paigebondcoachingFacebook: @paigebondcoachingTikTok: @paigebondcoachingWebsite: https://paigebond.comPaige Bond is an open relationship coach who specializes in helping individuals, couples, and intentionally non-monogamous relationships with feeling insecure in their relationships. She is also the founder of ⁠Sweet Love Counseling⁠ providing therapy in CO, FL, SC, and VT. Paige loves educating people about relationships through being the host of ⁠the Stubborn Love podcast, ⁠hosting workshops, and speaking at conferences.Free Jealousy Workbook: ⁠⁠⁠http://www.paigebond.com/calm-the-chaos-jealousy-workbook-download⁠⁠⁠Free People Pleasing Workbook: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.paigebond.com/people-pleasing-workbook⁠⁠⁠Attachment Dynamics Workshop:⁠https://www.paigebond.com/attachment-dynamics-workshop-sign-up⁠Disclaimer: This podcast and communication through our email are not meant to serve as professional advice or therapy. If you are in need of mental health support, you are encouraged to connect with a licensed mental health professional to receive the support needed.Mental Health Resources: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255SAMHSA's National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP (4357)Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741 for free, 24/7 crisis counseling.Intro music by Coma-Media on ⁠⁠pixabay.com⁠

Episode 193: Gestational Diabetes IntroJesica Mendoza (OMSIII) describes the pathophysiology of gestational diabetes and the right timing and method of screening for it. Dr. Arreaza adds insight into the need for culturally-appropriate foods, such as vegetables in Mexican cuisine.    Written by Jesica Mendoza, OMSIII, Western University of Health Sciences, College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific. Editing by Hector Arreaza, MD.You are listening to Rio Bravo qWeek Podcast, your weekly dose of knowledge brought to you by the Rio Bravo Family Medicine Residency Program from Bakersfield, California, a UCLA-affiliated program sponsored by Clinica Sierra Vista, Let Us Be Your Healthcare Home. This podcast was created for educational purposes only. Visit your primary care provider for additional medical advice.DefinitionGestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is a condition that occurs to previously non-diabetic pregnant women, caused by glucose intolerance at around the 24th week of gestation. PathophysiologyGDM arises due to an underlying pancreatic beta cell dysfunction in the mother which leads to a decrease in the amount of insulin produced and thus leads to higher blood sugar levels during pregnancy. The placenta of the fetus will produce hPL (human placental lactogen) to ensure a steady supply of sugars to the fetus, creating an anti-insulin effect. However, hPL readily crosses the placental barrier causing the mothers insulin requirement to increase, when the mother's pancreas cannot increase production of insulin to that level needed to counter the effect of hPL they become diabetic, and this leads to gestational diabetes. So, basically the placenta is asking for more glucose for the baby and the mother's pancreas struggles to keep the glucose level within normal limits in the body of the mother. If left untreated, high levels of glucose in the mother can cause glucotoxicity in the mother.“Glucotoxicity” refers to the toxic effect of glucose. Glucose is the main fuel for cell functions, but when it is high in the bloodstream, it causes toxicity to organs. Prevalence of GDM.The CDC reports mean prevenance of GDM is 6.9%. In U.S. mothers the prevenance increased from 6.0% in 2016 to 8.3% in 2021. Many different factors have played a role in increasing gestational diabetes in American mothers, some of those being the ongoing obesity epidemic with excess body weight being a known risk factor for insulin resistance. Another being advanced maternal age (AMA) as more American women have children later in life their body becomes less sensitive to insulin and requires a higher insulin output on top of the insulin that is required for the fetus. The “American diet” is also something that has a big effect in diabetes development. With the increase of high-carb foods that are readily available, the diet of Americans has declined and is affecting the metabolic health of mothers as they carry and deliver their children. Despite ongoing awareness of GDM, 6% to 9% of pregnant women in the United States are diagnosed with gestational diabetes, and the prevalence continues to increase worldwide. It is estimated that in 2017 18.4 million pregnancies were affected by GDM in the world, which then continued to increase to 1 in 6 births to women with GDM in 2019. It was also found that women living in low-income communities were disproportionately affected due to limited healthcare access. Additionally, women with GDM had a 1.4-fold increase in likelihood of undergoing a c-section, with 15% increase in risk of requiring blood transfusion. Screening for GDMGestational diabetes is screened between the 24th to 28th week of gestation in all women without known pregestational diabetes. In women who have high-risk for GDM the screening occurs during the first trimester, these women usually have at least one of the following: BMI > 30, prior history of GDM, known impaired glucose metabolism, and/or a strong family history of diabetes. The screening during the first trimester is to detect “pregestational diabetes” because we have to keep a good glycemic control to improve outcomes of pregnancy. So, if it's positive, you start treatment immediately. If these women are found to have a normal glucose, they repeat the testing again as done normally, at 24-28 weeks of gestation. How do we screen?The screening itself consists of two types of approaches. The two-step approach includes a 50-gram oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), where blood glucose is measured in an hour and if it is below 140 they are considered to not have GDM, however if the reading is greater than 140 they must then do a 3-hour, 100g oral glucose tolerance test. The 3-hour OGTT includes measuring the blood sugars at Fasting which should be less than 95, at 1 hour at less than 180, at 2 hours at less than 155, and at 3 hours at less than 140. If 2 or more of these values exceed the threshold the patient is diagnosed with gestational diabetes mellitus. The one-step approach includes 75g after an overnight fast. Blood glucose is measured while fasting which should be less than 92, at 1 hour less than 180 and at 2 hours less than 153. If any one of these values is exceeded, the patient is diagnosed with GDM.If the mother is found to be GDM positive during pregnancy she will also need continued screening post-partum to monitor for any development of overt diabetes. The testing is usually 75g 2-hour OGTT at 6-12 weeks postpartum. If this testing is normal, then they are tested using HbA1c every 3 years. If the post-partum testing shows pre-diabetes, annual testing is recommended using HbA1c measurements. Maternal complications Women with GDM are at an increased risk for future cardiovascular disease, T2DM, and chronic kidney disease. GDM is also associated with increased likelihood of developing pre-eclampsia following delivery. Pre-eclampsia is a complication seen in pregnancy characterized by high blood pressure, proteinuria, vision changes, and liver involvement (high LFTs). Pre-eclampsia can then progress to eclampsia or HELLP syndrome, both of which can include end organ damage. Additionally, she can develop polyhydramnios which leads to overstretching of the uterus and can induce pre-term labor, placental abruption, and or uterine atony, all of which additionally put the mother at increased risk for c-section. All of these maternal complications that stem from GDM lead to complications and extended hospitalization. Child's complications Although there is an increased set of risks for the mother, the neonate can also develop a variety of risks due to the increased glucose while in utero. While the fetus is growing, the placenta is the source of nutrition for the fetus. As the levels of glucose in the mother increase so does the amount of glucose filtered through the placenta and into the fetal circulation. Over time the glucose leads to oxidative stress and inflammation with activation of TGF-b which leads to fibroblast activation and fibrosis of the placenta. This fibrosis decreases the nutrient and oxygen exchange for the fetus. As the fetus attempts to grow in this restrictive environment its development is affected. The fetus can develop IUGR (intrauterine growth restriction) leading to a small for gestation age newborn which can then lead to another set of complications. The low oxygen environment can lead to increased EPO production and polycythemia at birth which can then lead to increased clotting that can travel to the newborn brain. Newborns can also be born with fetal acidosis due to the anerobic metabolism and lactic acid buildup in fetal tissues which can cause fetal encephalopathy leading to cerebral palsy and developmental delay. And the most severe of newborn complications to gestational diabetes can lead to fetal demise. Furthermore, the increase of glucose can also lead to macrosomia in the infant which can often lead to a traumatic delivery and delivery complications such as shoulder dystocia and brachial plexus injury. Brachial plexus injury sometimes resolves without sequela, but other times can lead to permanent weakness or paralysis of the affected arm. The baby can be born too small or too big.Additionally, once the fetus is born the cutting of the umbilical cord leads to a rapid deceleration in blood glucose in the fetal circulation and hypoglycemic episodes can occur, that often lead to NICU admission. The insulin that is created by the fetus in utero to accommodate the large quantities of glucose is known to affect lung maturation as well. The insulin produced inhibits surfactant production in the fetus. Upon birth some of the newborns also have to be placed on PEEP for ventilation and some children require treatment with surfactant to prevent alveolar collapse and/or progression to NRDS created by the low surfactant levels. Additionally, neonates who are macrosomic, which is usually seen in GDM mothers, are larger and stronger and when put on PEEP to help increase ventilation the newborn's stronger respiratory effort can lead to higher pulmonary pressures and barotrauma such as neonatal pneumothorax.Long term complications to the child of a mother with GDM also occur. As the child grows, they are also at an increased risk for developing early onset obesity because of the increased adipose storage triggered by the increase in insulin in response to the high glucose in utero. This then can lead to a higher chance of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus in the child. With diabetes, also comes an increase in cardiovascular risk as the child ages and becomes an adult. The effects of GDM go beyond the fetal life but continue through adulthood.What can be done?Gestational Diabetes Mellitus has many severe and lifelong consequences for both the mother and the child and prevention of GDM would help enhance the quality of life of both. Many of the ways to prevent GDM complications include patient education and dietary modifications with a diet rich in whole grains, fruits, vegetables and lean proteins. Benefits of some vegetables in the Mexican cuisine that may be beneficial: Nopales, Chayote, and Jicama. Those are good alternatives for highly processed carbs.Mothers are usually offered nutritional counseling to help them develop a tailored eating plan. This and 30 minutes of moderate exercise daily is recommended to increase insulin sensitivity and lower the post-prandial glucose levels. If within 2 weeks of implementing lifestyle changes alone the glucose measurements remain high, then medications like insulin can be put onboard to manage the GDM. If they require insulin, I think it is time to refer to a higher level of care, if available, high risk OB clinic.Conclusion: Now we conclude episode number ###, “[TITLE].” [summary here]. _____________________References:Eades CE, Burrows KA, Andreeva R, Stansfield DR, Evans JM. Prevalence of gestational diabetes in the United States and Canada: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Pregnancy Childbirth. 2024 Mar 15;24(1):204. doi: 10.1186/s12884-024-06378-2. PMID: 38491497; PMCID: PMC10941381. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38491497/QuickStats: Percentage of Mothers with Gestational Diabetes,* by Maternal Age — National Vital Statistics System, United States, 2016 and 2021. 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Organizations like the CDC and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists play a significant role in shaping the recommendations your doctor or midwife gives you during pregnancy. When the CDC updates its guidance, it influences clinical care, insurance coverage, and how providers counsel patients. In this episode, we explore the recent decision to no longer recommend the COVID-19 vaccine for children and pregnant women. Learn what this means for your prenatal care and how you can navigate this update with your provider.     Thank you to our sponsor   Zahler goes above and beyond to use high-quality bioavailable ingredients like the active form of folate, bioavailable iron, and omega 3s. The Zahler Prenatal +DHA is my #1 recommendation for a high-quality prenatal vitamin. In May 2025, you can save 40% off the Zahler Prenatal +DHA on Amazon with the code PREPOD40. Plus, if you email your order number to vanessa@pregnancypodcast.com you will get a free copy of the Your Birth Plan book. You can always see the details and the current promo code for the Zahler prenatal vitamin by clicking here.     Read the full article and resources that accompany this episode.     Join Pregnancy Podcast Premium to access the entire back catalog, listen to all episodes ad-free, get a copy of the Your Birth Plan Book, and more.     Check out the 40 Weeks podcast to learn how your baby grows each week and what is happening in your body. Plus, get a heads up on what to expect at your prenatal appointments and a tip for dads and partners.     For more evidence-based information, visit the Pregnancy Podcast website.

Dr Andrea Salcedo  Andrea Salcedo, DO, MPH, FACOG is a board certified obstetrician and gynecologist, wife, and mother of three young boys. She practices full scope obstetrics and gynecology at Loma Linda University Health, an academic medical center in Southern California. Her clinical practice is diverse, ranging from low risk women's health care to complex gynecologic and obstetric problems. A large part of her practice involves root-cause investigation into the development of gynecologic disease. Particularly, she focuses on metabolic health, as it relates to the development of uterine fibroids, endometrial polyps, and endometriosis. She has a special interest in using non-surgical strategies to treat endometriosis. Dr. Salcedo is a clinical researcher and published author in peer-reviewed academic journals. She has spoke at several conferences, including at the prestigious, Symposia for Metabolic Health, in San Diego and Boca, she is a clinical instructor for the Nutrition Network, and has been a featured on several podcasts. She also serves as an expert for the Osteopathic Medical Board of California. She is an active member of the Society for Metabolic Health Practitioners. She also has a YouTube Channel that promotes metabolic strategies to treating gynecologic problems, called Conscious Gynecologist. She also has an active telehealth practice where she consults on a metabolic approach to treating gynecologic diseases. She is fluent in English and Spanish. Dr. Salcedo has a passion for cooking, lifestyle design, and work-life balance. She is an avid reader, and often reads outside of her field to make connections to what she does every day, treating patients. Link to Show Notes on Website https://fabulouslyketo.com/podcast/236. Dr Andrea’s Top Tips Sleep well. Make sure that you have quiet time to reflect on your goals. Don't eat too many carbs. Dr Andrea’s Books https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/15/17/3760 https://insulinresistance.org/index.php/jir/article/view/67 https://www.reliasmedia.com/articles/endometriosis-and-the-gut-microbiome-nutritional-prospects-in-the-treatment-of-a-chronic-disease Resources Mentioned Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy, and Balance Hormones – Dr Mindy Pelz Eat Like a Girl: 100+ Delicious Recipes to Balance Hormones, Boost Energy, and Burn Fat – Dr Mindy Pelz Moon Time: The Art of Harmony with Nature and Lunar Cycles – Johanna Paungger and Thomas Poppe Connect with Dr Andrea Salcedo on social media Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/ConsciousGynecologist Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/consciousgynecologist LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreasalcedodo/ YouTube:https://www.youtube.com/@consciousgynecologist https://www.youtube.com/@FabulouslyKeto Website Details: https://www.consciousgynecology.com The Fabulously Keto Diet & Lifestyle Journal: A 12-week journal to support new habits – Jackie Fletcher If you have enjoyed listening to this episode – Leave us a review By leaving us a review on your favourite podcast platform, you help us to be found by others. Support Jackie Help Jackie make more episodes by supporting her. If you wish to support her we have various options from one off donations to becoming a Super Fabulously Keto Podcast Supporter with coaching and support. Check out this page for lots of different ways to support the podcast. https://fabulouslyketo.com/support Or You can find us on Patreon: https://www.patreon. com/FabulouslyKeto Connect with us on social media https://www.facebook.com/FabulouslyKeto https://www.instagram.com/FabulouslyKeto1 https://twitter.com/FabulouslyKeto https://www.youtube.com/@FabulouslyKeto Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/FabulouslyKeto Music by Bob Collum Recommend a guest We would love to know if you have a favourite guest you would like us to interview. Let us know who you would like to hear of if you have a particular topic you would like us to cover. https://fabulouslyketo.com/recommend-a-guest We sometimes get a small commission on some of the links, this goes towards the costs of producing the podcast.

The BFFs are together in NYC to discuss the biggest headlines from the past week. Brianna teaches Josh about pap smears and he is absolutely appalled. They talk Met Gala looks, James Charles, and more. 00:00 Intro 1:46 Dreams 3:50 Lavender Marriages 11:08 Met Gala Recap 17:05 Josh learns about the Gyno 27:14 James Charles & Kayla 31:24 New York City 36:43 Jordon Hudson Update 39:42 Timothee & Kylie 42:46 FOX News Reporter Fainting on air 44:22 Wendy Williams 47:50 Golden Globes Best Podcast 49:48 Hot Takes 56:33 BFFs Corner ----- Support Our Sponsors: Download the Gametime app today and use code BFF for $20 off your first purchase Use code BFF on https://rhoback.com for a generous 20% off your first order through the end of this week Now sold nationwide for a limited time only! Don't sleep on this epic new flavor! https://drinkghost.com Go to https://vuori.com/bffs and discover the versatility of Vuori Clothing. Exclusions apply. Visit the website for full terms and conditions. ----- Subscribe to the podcast now: https://barstool.link/3m4Q0Fq Check out the BFFs Social Media Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bffspod/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BFFsPod TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@bffspod Follow Josh Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/joshrichards/ Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@joshrichards?lang=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/JoshRichards Follow Brianna Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/briannalapaglia/?hl=en TikTiok: https://www.tiktok.com/@briannachickenfry?lang=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/bchickenfry?lang=en Check out Barstool Sports for more: http://www.barstoolsports.comYou can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/bffspod

Welcome to the Sustainable Clinical Medicine Podcast! In this compelling episode, Dr. Sarah Smith sits down with Dr. La Toya Luces-Sampson—known as Dr. Toya—to discuss her transformative journey through medicine, from her beginnings in Trinidad and Tobago to her training as an OB/GYN in the US, and ultimately her bold decision to step away from clinical practice. Dr. Toya candidly opens up about her experiences with burnout in residency and corporate medicine, the toll it took on her personal well-being, and the moments that sparked real change in her career and life. She shares how a leap into entrepreneurship during the COVID-19 pandemic rekindled her confidence and purpose beyond clinical work, eventually inspiring her to become a coach for physician moms navigating medicine and motherhood. Dr. Toya reveals practical tools she used for efficiency, like templates and support systems, and emphasizes the importance of advocacy, boundaries, and accepting support—whether at work or at home. Tune in for an honest, inspiring conversation about resilience, redefining success in medicine, and the power of community and self-compassion in building a sustainable clinical career. Here are 3 key takeaways from this episode: Support Matters at Work and Home: Whether advocating for yourself in a tough clinical environment or building a support system at home, allowing yourself to be supported is crucial. As Dr. La Toya shared, “We have worked so hard to get where we are. Allow yourself to be supported.” Efficiency and Boundaries Fight Burnout: La Toya emphasized the power of systems, templates, and boundaries, both in patient care and personal life. Tackling the inbox right away, leveraging dictation and templates, and having clear work/home boundaries helped her stay efficient—and sane. Burnout Isn't the End—It's a Call to Innovate:Experiencing burnout multiple times gave Dr. La Toya new perspectives and fueled her pivot into entrepreneurship and coaching. She now empowers physician moms to carve their own pathways—inside or outside medicine: “They can stay in medicine if that's what they want. They can leave medicine if that's what they want. They can find their balance.” Dr. La Toya Luces-Sampson Bio: Dr. La Toya Luces-Sampson aka Dr. Toya, is a wife, mother, board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist, perinatal mental health specialist, and Coach. She helps Physician Moms thrive in medicine and motherhood without complete self-sacrifice. With over a decade of experience in women's health, Dr. Toya empowers physician moms through private and group coaching and her podcast, ✨Stethoscopes and Strollers✨ a space where physician moms can feel a little more seen and a lot less alone. -------------- Would you like to view a transcript of this episode? Click here Learn more about our guest: Website: https://drtoyacoaching.com Podcast: https://www.drtoyacoaching.com/podcast Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/latoya.luces.5/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/drtoyacoaching LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/latoyalucessampson YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFusqULGoxtWl0IOyJPBZ-w **** Charting Champions is a premiere, lifetime access Physician only program that is helping Physicians get home with today's work done. All the proven tools, support and community you need to create time for your life outside of medicine. Learn more at https://www.chartingcoach.ca **** Enjoying this podcast? Please share it with someone who would benefit. Also, don't forget to hit “follow” so you get all the new episodes as soon as they are released. **** Come hang out with me on Facebook or Instagram. Follow me @chartingcoach to get more practical tools to help you create sustainable clinical medicine in your life. **** Questions? Comments? Want to share how this podcast has helped you? Shoot me an email at admin@reachcareercoaching.ca. I would love to hear from you.

This is the 11th episode in my Pharmacist Podcasters Series. My guests and I talk about podcasting to inspire you to start your own podcast, be a podcast guest, or use your voice in general. If you're interested in podcasting, pod-guesting or public speaking, you need to listen to this episode. My guest today is Dr. Danielle Plummer, host of the MaternalRx Podcast on the Pharmacy Podcast Network.    Pharmacists can play a crucial role in maternal health. Advocacy and education are critical in improving maternal care. Listen and learn from Dr. Plummer on the MaternalRx Podcast!    Click to read the FULL show notes: https://www.thepharmacistsvoice.com/podcast (select episode 329)   Bio - Danielle Plummer, PharmD (May 2025) Danielle Plummer, PharmD, is a third-generation pharmacist and host of the MaternalRx podcast on the Pharmacy Podcast Network. She earned her PharmD from Creighton University in 2016 and has since had a broad pharmacy career spanning retail, hospital, consulting, and medical affairs.   Combining clinical expertise with lived experience, Danielle specializes in supporting pregnant patients, particularly those suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum (HG). After studying treatments for other diseases of malnutrition in pharmacy school, she became certified in pharmacogenetics and as an antepartum doula. This, along with a community of pharmacy entrepreneurs, inspired her to launch HG Pharmacist©, a blog to share information about HG, which later grew into Obstet-Rx©, a consulting company offering personalized medication management and patient advocacy to women worldwide.   Her subject matter expertise has led to board member appointments, speaking engagements, and media contributions for international magazines. In her work as an MSL, she has supported diagnostics for preeclampsia (sFlt-1/PlGF) and procalcitonin, as well as therapies for iron deficiency anemia and small cell lung cancer.   Through her podcast, Danielle shows how pharmacists play a key role in improving maternal outcomes. (End bio)    Backstory Danielle and I met at Medipreneurs several years ago and have kept in touch. I enjoyed getting to know her better during this interview. She has transformed her career since we first met, and I'm proud of her for starting a podcast.    The Pharmacy Podcast Network is an important part of Danielle's story. They produce and distribute the MaternalRx Podcast on their network. If you'd like to start a podcast on the Pharmacy Podcast Network, please reach out to Todd Eury via email: publisher@pharmacypodcast.com.   Share this episode! If you know someone who might like the MaternalRx Podcast, please share this episode with them. If you would like to be a guest on the MaternalRx Podcast or nominate a guest for the MaternalRx Podcast, please contact Dr. Danielle Plummer through LinkedIn or her other social media channels. She is also open to pod-guesting on other podcasts and speaking at events. Reach out to Dr. Plummer directly through LinkedIn or her other social media channels.   Subscribe to or follow The Pharmacist's Voice ® Podcast on your favorite podcast player and YouTube to get each new episode right when it comes out.   Apple Podcasts   https://apple.co/42yqXOG  Spotify  https://spoti.fi/3qAk3uY  Amazon/Audible  https://adbl.co/43tM45P YouTube https://bit.ly/43Rnrjt   Thank you for listening today. Happy Mother's Day if you're a Mom or a Mom-to-Be!   If you need help starting your podcast, I can help. Get my FREE eBook or audiobook version on kimnewlove.com/podcasting or Amazon https://amzn.to/4iAKNBs. I also teach a self-paced, online course and work with clients by-the-hour. Listen to my episodes about podcasting in my back catalog on thepharmacistsvoice.com/podcast.    Links from this episode  Danielle's Blog: https://pregnancyvomiting.com/  Danielle's consulting website: https://hgpharmacist.com/ Facebook Group: Extreme Pregnancy Vomiting Education https://www.facebook.com/groups/hgsolutions MaternalRx Podcast https://maternityrx.podbean.com/  Pharmacy Podcast Network https://pharmacypodcast.com/shows/  Todd Eury's email publisher@PharmacyPodcast.com  Danielle Plummer, PharmD on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniellerplummer Connect with Danielle on Instagram @obstet_rx https://www.instagram.com/obstet_rx/  Connect on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/HGClinicalSolutions  Subscribe to Danielle's YouTube Channel https://www.youtube.com/@hgpharmacist  Follow Danielle on Twitter (X) https://x.com/Obstet_Rx  Follow Danielle on Pinterest https://www.pinterest.com/hgpharmacist/    Resources Mentioned HER Foundation https://hyperemesis.org  Preeclampsia Foundation https://www.preeclampsia.org/  Pregnancy Sickness Support (UK) https://pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk/  PharmGKB (Pharmacogenomics Knowledge Base) https://www.pharmgkb.org/  CPIC (Clinical Pharmacogenetics Implementation Consortium) https://cpicpgx.org/  ACOG (American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists) https://www.acog.org/  UpToDate (Resource, Retail Pharmacists) https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/solutions/uptodate/industries/retail-pharmacy  Lexicomp is now Lexidrug  Micromedex https://www.micromedexsolutions.com/home/dispatch  Medscape https://www.medscape.com/  A Dose of Support Podcast on Spotify (April 2021 with Vanessa Kasper DNP, Host) featuring guest Dr. Danielle Plummer, PharmD https://open.spotify.com/episode/5qSIGIQ7lw6yO9rKNwi8Jg?si=9e97101b886f4f26     Kim's websites and social media links: ✅ Guest Application Form (The Pharmacist's Voice Podcast) https://bit.ly/41iGogX  ✅ Monthly email newsletter sign-up link https://bit.ly/3AHJIaF  ✅ LinkedIn Newsletter https://bit.ly/40VmV5B ✅ Business website https://www.thepharmacistsvoice.com ✅ The Pharmacist's Voice ® Podcast https://www.thepharmacistsvoice.com/podcast ✅ Pronounce Drug Names Like a Pro © Online Course https://www.kimnewlove.com  ✅ FREE Podcasting eBook/audiobook combo https://www.kimnewlove.com/podcasting  ✅ Podcasting Online Course https://www.kimnewlove.com/podcasting  ✅ Private Podcasting Coaching or Consulting https://www.kimnewlove.com/private-coaching  ✅ LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimnewlove ✅ Facebook https://www.facebook.com/kim.newlove.96 ✅ Twitter https://twitter.com/KimNewloveVO ✅ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kimnewlovevo/ ✅ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCA3UyhNBi9CCqIMP8t1wRZQ ✅ ACX (Audiobook Narrator Profile) https://www.acx.com/narrator?p=A10FSORRTANJ4Z ✅ Start a podcast with the same coach who helped me get started (Dave Jackson from The School of Podcasting)! **Affiliate Link - NEW 9-8-23**      Thank you for listening to episode 329 of The Pharmacist's Voice ® Podcast.  If you know someone who would like this episode, please share it with them!   Pharmacist Podcasters Series Part 1 with Ola Latala, PharmD (The Pharmacist's Voice Podcast Episode 248) Part 2 with Deeb Eid, PharmD (The Pharmacist's Voice Podcast Episode 253) Part 3 with Justin Cole, PharmD (The Pharmacist's Voice Podcast Episode 257) Part 4 with Christina Fontana, PharmD The Pharmacist's Voice Podcast Episode 262 Part 5 with Tony Dao, PharmD The Pharmacist's Voice Podcast Episode 266 Part 6 with Dr. H (Hussam Hamoush, PharmD) The Pharmacist's Voice Podcast Episode 275 Part 7 with Julie Doan, PharmD The Pharmacist's Voice Podcast Episode 297 Part 8 with Tim Ulbrich, PharmD The Pharmacist's Voice Podcast Episode 306  Part 9 with Zain Syed, PharmD The Pharmacist's Voice Podcast Episode 310 Part 10 with Rachel Gainsbrugh, PharmD The Pharmacist's Voice Podcast Episode 323  Part 11 with Danielle Plummer, PharmD (TODAY!) 

In this episode, we welcome Dr. Peta Wright, a distinguished gynecologist and fertility specialist, to discuss her holistic approach to addressing pelvic pain, endometriosis, and women's health. Drawing from her book Healing Pelvic Pain, Dr. Wright shares insights on the connection between the nervous system, inflammation, and trauma, offering integrative strategies for true healing. She emphasizes the importance of understanding pain as a messenger and adopting a whole-person approach to care. Tune in to explore how modern medicine and holistic practices can harmonize to empower women's well-being.Key takeaways:The link between pelvic pain, inflammation, and the nervous system.Why traditional approaches often fall short for endometriosis treatment.The role of attachment trauma and stress in chronic pain.Practical tools for creating safety in the body and mind.Integrative strategies for improving fertility outcomes.Dr. Peta Wright Bio: Dr. Peta Wright is a distinguished gynaecologist and fertility specialist, deeply committed to holistic women's health. She completed her medical degree with Honours at Monash University in 2004 and obtained her Fellowship with the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists in 2013. Dr. Wright furthered her expertise with a Master's in Reproductive Medicine and a certificate in Women's Integrative Medicine. In 2020, she founded Vera Women's Wellness, aiming to provide comprehensive care that addresses the physical, emotional, and environmental aspects of women's health. Her clinical interests include paediatric and adolescent gynaecology, pelvic pain, endometriosis, polycystic ovarian syndrome, and menopause management. Dr. Wright is also an advocate for addressing the impact of nutrition, stress, and lifestyle on hormonal balance, empowering women to achieve optimal well-being. She is the author of Healing Pelvic Pain: Transforming the Trauma of period pain, endometriosis, and chronic pelvic distress published in 2023.Where To Find Dr. Peta Wright: Website: https://www.verawellness.com.au/Instagram Dr. Peta Wright: https://www.instagram.com/petavirginiaInstagramVera Wellness:https://www.instagram.com/verawellness.com.auFacebook Vera Wellness:https://www.facebook.com/verawellness.com.auBook: “Healing Pelvic Pain: Transforming the Trauma of Period Pain, Endometriosis, and Chronic Pelvic Distress” - https://www.amazon.com/Healing-Pelvic-Pain-Peta-Wright/dp/1761264400Acubalance Wellness Centre:Endometriosis Treatment Strategies : https://acubalance.ca/blog/endometriosis-awareness-month-10-tools-to-support-endometriosis/ Nervous System Reset - Enhance Mood & Sleep:

What role do prenatal vitamins play in fertility and pregnancy? When should you start taking them to support a healthy pregnancy? And how do you choose the best prenatal vitamin with the right nutrients? In this episode of Brave & Curious, Dr. Shahine explores the essential role of prenatal vitamins in supporting both fertility and pregnancy. She explains the importance of these supplements, when to start taking them, the difference between folic acid and folate, and what key nutrients to look for. She also discusses recommended daily intakes and how different vitamins—like folic acid, iron, calcium, and DHA—contribute to the health of both mother and baby. Listeners will learn how to evaluate the quality of prenatal supplements and ensure they meet expert guidelines, including recommendations from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. Whether you're trying to conceive or already pregnant, this episode is full of the knowledge to make informed choices about prenatal nutrition. In this episode you'll hear: [1:09] Why prenatal vitamins are essential [2:43] When should you start taking a prenatal vitamin? [3:32] Key nutrients in prenatal vitamins Folic acid vs folate Iron Calcium Vitamin D Others [15:21] Choosing the right prenatal vitamin brand [15:55] Making an informed choice    Dr. Shahine's Weekly Newsletter on Fertility News and Recommendations Follow @drlorashahine Instagram | YouTube | Tiktok | Her Books  

What would you do after losing your health, marriage, business, and community all at once?In this powerful episode of Life in Transition, Dr. Omar Hamada shares his journey through simultaneous life crises that stripped away everything he valued. From divorce after 20+ years of marriage to the loss of family members, business failure, and a life-threatening health emergency that left him hospitalized for months, Omar candidly reveals how these experiences affected his identity, faith, and relationships. He describes the painful experience of abandonment by his church community while being supported by military brothers he hadn't seen in 15 years.Through his darkest moments, Omar discovered an unexpected gift: freedom from others' expectations and leverage. This liberation empowered him to pursue his authentic purpose with renewed courage and conviction. Now rebuilding his life, health, and relationships, Omar offers three powerful strategies for anyone navigating their own dark night of the soul: connect with someone who truly cares, immerse yourself in spiritual resources, and seek quality professional therapy. His story illuminates how our greatest crises can become crucibles for transformation and authenticity.About Our Guest:Dr. Omar Hamada is a Fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, and the International College of Surgeons. He is active in entrepreneurship in the areas of biotechnology and AI, as well as a leader in the longevity and human performance space. Dr. Hamada was awarded the Bronze Star Medal as a combat veteran of the U.S. Army's Special Forces. He holds a Masters degree in Theology, lives in Franklin, and has four amazing children.Connect with Dr. Hamada:Dr. Omar Hamada LinkedInAbout The Show: The Life in Transition, hosted by Art Blanchford focuses on making the most of the changes we're given every week. Art has been through hundreds of transitions in his life. Many have been difficult, but all have led to a depth and richness he could never have imagined. On the podcast Art explores how to create more love and joy in life, no matter what transitions we go through. Art is married to his lifelong partner, a proud father of three and a long-time adventurer and global business executive. He is the founder and leader of the Midlife Transition Mastery Community. Learn more about the MLTM Community here: www.lifeintransition.online.In This Episode: (00:00) Navigating Life's Darkest Valleys(01:50) Multiple Simultaneous Transitions: Divorce, Loss, and Crisis(05:49) The Devastating Impact on Relationships and Identity(09:30) Abandonment and Finding True Friends(18:33) Military Brotherhood During Health Crisis(22:15) MidLife Transition Mastery Ad(24:55) The Health Crisis: Ignoring Warning Signs(28:59) A Toxic Relationship, Military Toxicity and Its Physical Consequences(38:30) Finding Freedom at Rock Bottom(42:31) Transition Mastery Coaching Ad(53:32) Three Keys to Navigating Dark Times(1:01:00) Connect with Omar, Closing ThoughtsResources:Email Art BlanchfordLife in Transition WebsiteLife in Transition on IGLife in Transition on FBJoin Our Community: https://www.lifeintransition.online/My new book "PURPOSEFUL LIVING" is out now. Order it now: https://www.amazon.com/PURPOSEFUL-LIVING-Wisdom-Coming-Complex/dp/1963913922Explore our website https://lifeintransitionpodcast.com/ for more in-depth information and resources, and to download the 8-step guide to mastering mid-life transitions.The views and opinions expressed on the “Life In Transition” podcast are solely those of the author and guests and should not be attributed to any other individual or entity. This podcast is an independent production of Life In Transition Podcast, and the podcast production is an original work of the author. All rights of ownership and reproduction are retained—copyright 2025.

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We kicked off the program with four news stories and different guests on the stories we think you need to know about!New Guidelines Released to Govern Self-Collection for HPV Screening & The Importance of HPV Screening. What is HPV & How Do You Get It? Rebecca Perkins - MD, Obstetrician and Gynecologist and Investigator at the Mother-Infant Research Institute at Tufts Medical Center explained it to Dan.Award-winning Irish band Lúnasa to play in Somerville on March 8!  Kevin Crawford - Flute player, considered one of Ireland's greatest flute players checked in with Dan.Clinical Advisory Issued Over Neurological Complications Tied To Flu.  Alison Kuznitz – State House News Reporter shared the details.POLLING: Bay Staters Not Sweet on Taxing Candy. Christopher R. Anderson, president of the Massachusetts High Technology Council—one of the co-organizers of the Mass Opportunity Alliance joined Dan.Listen to WBZ NewsRadio on the new iHeart Radio app and be sure to set WBZ NewsRadio as your #1 preset!

Download Your Free Guide - 3 Things You Need to Know About Cancer:  https://www.katiedeming.com/cancer-101/Ever wondered why birth control is prescribed as a universal solution for women's health issues? Dr. Katie Deming welcomes Dr. Monique Ruberu, a holistic gynecologist who left conventional medicine to help women find natural solutions for hormone health. After years of prescribing birth control as the default solution, Dr. Ruberu discovered there was a better way to address women's health concerns by understanding the root causes.Learn how your menstrual cycle is a window into your overall health. Dr. Ruberu shares practical ways to identify hormone imbalances through simple observations, and explains why conventional hormone testing often misses crucial information. Chapters:03:58 - Truth about hormonal imbalances  14:26 - Unexplained infertility26:00 - Signs your estrogen is out of control  39:00 - Struggling with menopause? 48:40 - How cycle tracking strengthens relationshipsFrom thyroid function to gut health to adrenal support, discover how these systems work together to influence your hormones. Dr. Ruberu offers accessible, natural approaches to common women's health concerns that go beyond just masking symptoms. Listen and learn why supporting your body's natural processes, rather than suppressing them.Connect with Dr. Monique Ruberu: https://www.naturalwomenshealth.com/Send us a text with your question (include your phone number)Watch & Listen to Born to Heal on Youtube: Click Here Transform your hydration with the system that delivers filtered, mineralized, and structured water all in one. Spring Aqua System: https://springaqua.info/drkatie Don't Face Cancer Alone"The 6 Pillars of Healing Cancer" workshop series provides you valuable insights and strategies to support your healing journey - Click Here to Enroll MORE FROM KATIE DEMING M.D. Free Guide - 3 Things You Need to Know About Cancer: https://www.katiedeming.com/cancer-101/6 Pillars of Healing Cancer Workshop Series - Click Here to EnrollWork with Dr. Katie: www.katiedeming.comFollow Dr. Katie Deming on Instagram: The.Conscious.Oncologist Take a Deeper Dive into Your Healing Journey: Dr. Katie Deming's Linkedin Here Please Support the Show Share this episode with a friend or family member Give a Review on Spotify Give a Review on Apple Podcast DISCLAIMER:The Born to Heal Podcast is intended for informational purposes only and is not a substitute for seeking professional medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Individual medical histories are unique; therefore, this episode should not be used to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease without consulting your healthcare provider.

Do you have questions about Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)? Like will adding hormones affect your weight? Doesn't HRT cause cancer? What are the real risks.. and benefits beyond stopping hot flashes & night sweats? All of these questions and more will be addressed today in a conversation with  gynecologist Maegan Allen. Not only do we deep dive into HRT, she  also gives her professional recommendations for us fabulous-over-fifty women looking to lose fat in a healthy way and keep it off long term to live our healthiest, best lives!   REGISTER for the Melt Your Middle 5-Day Challenge here: https://www.fasterwaycoach.com/rounds/melt-your-middle?aid=AMYBRYAN ENROLL in my next FASTer Way 6-week online class at https://www.fasterwaycoach.com/AMYBRYAN  CONNECT with Amy Bryan any of the following ways:  SCHEDULE a discovery call, VOICE MESSAGE me, JOIN my free Facebook community group, and DOWNLOAD my latest freebies at www.linktr.ee/amybryanfasterway EMAIL me at amy@fatlossschool.net. Dr. Mary Clare Haver's The New Menopause book: https://amzn.to/3CD1Wej  Email Maegan Allen here: mnl0003@tigermailauburn.mail.onmicrosoft.com 

When it comes to hormone optimization, there's a lot of conflicting information out there, making it hard to know who to trust. That's why I sat down with Dr. Shawn Tassone, a board-certified OBGYN and hormone expert who works directly with patients. We dive into perimenopause, menopause, and the biggest misconceptions about hormone replacement therapy. We also discuss why so many women feel dismissed by doctors and how to advocate for better care.  If you're unsure about HRT, we cover natural alternatives like adaptogens and herbal supplements that can support hormone balance. Dr. Tassone also shares insights on how diet, lifestyle, and stress impact hormones, plus practical steps to optimize your health.Topics Discussed: Misconceptions about hormone replacement therapy  Why women are often dismissed when discussing hormones  Natural alternatives like adaptogens and herbals  The role of diet, lifestyle, and stress in hormone health  How to advocate for yourself in the healthcare system  Signs and symptoms of hormone imbalances  Practical steps to optimize hormones at any ageSponsored By: Viva RaysGo to⁠ vivarays.com⁠ & use code: YOGI to save 15%Black Lotus ShilajitVisit:⁠ www.blacklotusshilajit.com⁠ and Use Code: SARAHK for 15% the entire site!Timestamps: 00:00:00 - Introduction 00:04:06 - Dr. Tassone's Background & Journey into Integrative Medicine00:10:28 - Treating perimenopause 00:14:30 - Birth control 00:15:42 - Reading labs and symptoms 00:21:20 - DUTCH testing 00:23:10 - Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)00:27:29 - HRT dosing and side effects 00:31:31 - Medical gaslighting 00:33:50 - Quantum medicine 00:38:52 - Hormone imbalances in women 00:41:47 - Chronic stress and hormones 00:45:09 - Supplementing with maca root 00:49:16 - Black cohosh and estrogen 00:50:32 - Overdosing supplements and hormones 00:52:26 - Estrogen and weight gain 00:55:19 - 01:00:41 - Estradiol face creams Check Out Shawn: WebsiteBookInstagramYoutubeThis video is not medical advice & as a supporter to you and your health journey - I encourage you to monitor your labs and work with a professional!________________________________________Get all my free guides and product recommendations to get started on your journey!https://www.sarahkleinerwellness.com/all-free-resourcesCheck out all my courses to understand how to improve your mitochondrial health & experience long lasting health! (Use code PODCAST to save 10%) - https://www.sarahkleinerwellness.com/coursesSign up for my newsletter to get special offers in the future! -https://www.sarahkleinerwellness.com/contactFree Guide to Building your perfect quantum day (start here) -https://www.sarahkleinerwellness.com/opt-in-9d5f6918-77a8-40d7-bedf-93ca2ec8387fMy free product guide with all product recommendations and discount codes:https://www.sarahkleinerwellness.com/resource_redirect/downloads/file-uploads/sites/2147573344/themes/2150788813/downloads/84c82fa-f201-42eb-5466-0524b41f6b18_2024_SKW_Affiliate_Guide_1_.pdfMy Circadian App - AppleMy Circadian App - AndroidMy Circadian App - Youtube

Hey Lady! Have you ever wondered what the status of your pelvic floor is? If you know how to kegel correctly? Or maybe if you have tightness and kegels could make things worse? Or if you have prolapse that you should be keeping an eye on? These are all things that I am checking for as a pelvic floor PT during the internal assessment, among many other things! However, I find that these are things most women have never been told because their pap smears or other pelvic assessments done by a Gynecologist are not looking or assessing the function of your pelvic floor. While they may inform you of prolapse or atrophy in your muscles, they are mostly looking for infection, healing, abnormal tissue and bigger red flags.  This is why many women come to me and are so amazed by what they learn from the internal vaginal assessment and many times we are finding and explaining the cause of their pain or symptoms for the first time.    This is why I believe every woman should get an internal vaginal assessment so they can better understand the basic status of their pelvic floor and so they can compare throughout their life.  It isn't always easy to get into a pelvic floor PT and so I also think it can be very valuable to know how to perform your own self- assessment periodically, especially if you notice symptoms showing up or getting worse.  While doing an internal assessment on yourself isn't as thorough as getting one by a Pelvic Floor PT, it is so much better than nothing! Just reconnecting and becoming aware of the sensitivity, tightness or level of strength that you can feel at the vaginal opening and perineum can be a game changer! That is why I also help my Restore members perform and interpret their own self-vaginal assessments!   RESTORE is my first 8 wk online signature program hosted inside my new platform that will be an APP soon Pelvic Floor, Core & More! Inside that program I walk you through the basics of healing, restoring your breathing, posture, core function and overall strength and return to impact and intensity.  All with the guidance of me, a Pelvic Floor PT, in your pocket making sure that you are getting individualized support and feedback through the program during our weekly group coaching calls! This option is great for those that can't afford a one-on-one session for $200-$240, those that don't have access to a pelvic floor PT in person or those that want to have a structured organized program with support as they are phasing out of acute therapy treatments and working more independently.    

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Calling all pre-med and medical students! In this episode of Specialty Spotlight, we sit down with Dr. Chani Yondorf, a dedicated Obstetrician and Gynecologist at Albert Einstein Medical Center of Philadelphia. Dr. Yondorf shares her journey through medical school, residency, and her current faculty position, offering valuable insights into the OB/GYN specialty. Beyond her clinical expertise, Dr. Yondorf is passionate about serving the Jewish community, integrating medical care with halachic guidance. She discusses how she supports women with gynecologic needs, answers halachic questions, and dedicates time to empower Jewish women through education on reproductive health. Whether you're considering a career in OB/GYN, want to learn how to combine your professional and personal values in practice, or are simply curious about the challenges and rewards of this specialty, this episode is a must-listen! Chani Yondorf is an Obstetrician and Gynecologist at the Albert Einstein Medical Center of Philadelphia. She completed her medical school training at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and her residency at Albert Einstein Medical Center of Philadelphia. After completing residency, she took a faculty position at Einstein Philadelphia where she is currently practicing. Chani is passionate about helping Jewish women navigate their gynecologic needs within the confines of halacha. She is often called upon by Rabbanim, Yoatzot and community members to answer medical questions as they relate to hilchot niddah. She has been able to carve out dedicated time in her office schedule that is reserved for Kallot and women with niddah concerns that may need more immediate medical evaluation from a halachic standpoint. Dr. Yondorf feels strongly about educating Jewish women and girls regarding changes they may notice throughout different stages of their lives. To that end, she has spoken at educational conferences and events, and hopes to empower Jewish women to understand their bodies and reproductive health. Sponsor the JOWMA Podcast! Email digitalcontent@jowma.org Become a JOWMA Member! www.jowma.org Follow us on Instagram! www.instagram.com/JOWMA_org Follow us on Twitter! www.twitter.com/JOWMA_med Follow us on Facebook! https://www.facebook.com/JOWMAorg Stay up-to-date with JOWMA news! Sign up for the JOWMA newsletter! https://jowma.us6.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=9b4e9beb287874f9dc7f80289&id=ea3ef44644&mc_cid=dfb442d2a7&mc_eid=e9eee6e41e

Off late, numerous marketing events and strategies have been used by private cord stem cell banks in India to lure parents with the promise of potential benefits of storing stem cells for future malignancies their child may face. While this may seem like a lucrative and logical form of biological insurance, many of these companies rely on misleading—and in some cases, fraudulent—marketing techniques. This episode covers everything you need to know about cord stem cell banking! History of Cord Stem Cell Banking  Myths vs. Facts  News Reports Exposing the Fraud  The Indian Academy of Pediatrics' (IAP) Stance  The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists' (ACOG) PositionReferences: https://journals.lww.com/imsp/fulltext/2023/14010/umbilical_cord_blood_banking__myth_and_realities.1.aspxhttps://www.acog.org/clinical/clinical-guidance/committee-opinion/articles/2019/03/umbilical-cord-blood-bankingIndia's only public Cord Blood Bank: https://www.jeevan.org/media/jeevan-donor-information-form.pdfhttps://www.bethecure.in/public-cord-blood-bank/about-public-cord-blood-bank/Support the showSign up for Childbirth Preparation Programs! visit www.birthagni.com/birthclassesSupport the show:Donations (India) - https://birthagni.com/birthagnipodcast#podcast-listDonations (world) - buymeacoffee.com/birthagni If you like what you hear, leave us a rating on Spotify app and answer the question at each episode! a review on Apple podcasts. Share on Whatsapp/Insta/FB Share on Instagram and tag us @divyakapoorvox Support the production by making a donation at https://www.buymeacoffee.com/birthagni. This ensures the continuity and quality and a good coffee on sleepless recording nights! Subscribe to the FREE newsletter at https:/...

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Dawn Elliott, Physician Liaison at The Rose, recounts her breast cancer journey with host Dorothy Gibbons. For years, Dawn's gynecologist emphasized the need for a baseline mammogram at 35 despite no family history. Once she turned 35, Dawn scheduled her regular gynecologist appointment, and he noticed a lump during her exam. This led to biopsies revealing stage zero cancer. Dawn's experience propelled her into community outreach, working at MD Anderson and the University of Chicago in cancer genetics and clinical trials. Her current role involves connecting with physicians to share ways The Rose can help patients and providing patient navigation insights. Key Questions Answered 1. How was Dawn Elliott diagnosed with breast cancer? 2.What role did Dr. James McBride play in Dawn's diagnosis? 3. What was the stage and nature of Dawn's cancer diagnosis? 4. Why did Dawn Elliott choose a modified radical mastectomy? 5. Did Dawn Elliott experience any reoccurrence of breast cancer? 6. What kind of work has Dawn been involved in within the breast cancer community? 7. How did Dawn Elliott transition to working at the Rose? 8.What type of support was significant to Dawn as a working single mother? Timestamped Overview 00:00 Gynecologist urges early baseline mammogram at 35. 03:44 Chose mastectomy, showed family living joyfully. 08:48 Dedicated to compassionate patient care and trials. 13:02 Advocated women's health: cancer to heart disease. 14:35 Left Methodist due to funding, joined Rose. 17:16 Wearing pink makes clients happy and smile. 21:00 Late arrival due to child's needs explained. 23:47 Faith and positivity combat breast cancer fears.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In hour 1, Chris gets to the news of the day, like a Gynecologist in France who got suspended for not accepting a Transgender patient who lacked gynecological things. For more coverage on the issues that matter to you, download the WMAL app, visit WMAL.com or tune in love on WMAL-FM 105.9 from 9:00am-12:00pm Monday-Friday To join the conversation, check us out on X @WMAL and @ChrisPlanteShow Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Board-Certified Nurse Midwife Kristin Mallon joins Lesley Logan to illuminate how to bridge the gap between “normal” lab results and genuine wellness by harnessing hormone insights, gut health strategies, longevity medicine, and integrative care. From understanding the nuanced roles of midwives and doulas to exploring advanced testing for a deeper picture of health, Kristin reveals how following your intuition and seeking daily excitement can fuel a truly fulfilling life at any age.If you have any questions about this episode or want to get some of the resources we mentioned, head over to LesleyLogan.co/podcast. If you have any comments or questions about the Be It pod shoot us a message at beit@lesleylogan.co. And as always, if you're enjoying the show please share it with someone who you think would enjoy it as well. It is your continued support that will help us continue to help others. Thank you so much! Never miss another show by subscribing at LesleyLogan.co/subscribe.In this episode you will learn about:The difference between midwives, doulas, and OB GYNs.Turning to personal intuition when seeking healthcare solutions.Why standard labs often miss suboptimal hormone levels.How deeper gut testing supports lasting energy and vitality.Using advanced integrative approaches for longevity medicine.Episode References/Links:FemGevity - https://beitpod.com/femgevityFemGevity on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/FemGevity/FemGevity on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/femgevity/FemGevity on Tiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@femgevityFemGevity on X - https://x.com/FemGevityFemGevity on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/femgevityhealth/FemGevity on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@femgevityGuest Bio:Kristin Mallon is a health tech entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in the industry. As the co-founder and CEO of FemGevity, she is passionate about improving women's health through innovative solutions. Under her leadership, FemGevity has grown into a successful company that provides essential support to women who need it most.Prior to founding FemGevity, Kristin launched Vibrant Beginning, a high-end supplement line of prenatal vitamins. She is committed to making a significant impact in the healthcare industry and enhancing the lives of women around the world. Kristin advocates for transforming the healthcare narrative from solely providing "sickcare" to developing and offering platforms that support optimal health planning. If you enjoyed this episode, make sure and give us a five star rating and leave us a review on iTunes, Podcast Addict, Podchaser or Castbox. DEALS! DEALS! DEALS! DEALS!Check out all our Preferred Vendors & Special Deals from Clair Sparrow, Sensate, Lyfefuel BeeKeeper's Naturals, Sauna Space, HigherDose, AG1 and ToeSox Be in the know with all the workshops at OPCBe It Till You See It Podcast SurveyBe a part of Lesley's Pilates MentorshipFREE Ditching Busy Webinar Resources:Watch the Be It Till You See It podcast on YouTube!Lesley Logan websiteBe It Till You See It PodcastOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley LoganOnline Pilates Classes by Lesley Logan on YouTubeProfitable Pilates Follow Us on Social Media:InstagramThe Be It Till You See It Podcast YouTube channelFacebookLinkedInThe OPC YouTube Channel Episode Transcript:Kristin Mallon 0:00  There's this huge gap between optimal health and chronic care and crisis care and sick care that needs to be filled. You know, which is like what we're doing, and there's so much to be done. There's so much and then obviously it gets into the whole prevention of chronic care and crisis care in the long term. Lesley Logan 0:19  Welcome to the Be It Till You See It podcast where we talk about taking messy action, knowing that perfect is boring. I'm Lesley Logan, Pilates instructor and fitness business coach. I've trained thousands of people around the world and the number one thing I see stopping people from achieving anything is self-doubt. My friends, action brings clarity and it's the antidote to fear. Each week, my guest will bring bold, executable, intrinsic and targeted steps that you can use to put yourself first and Be It Till You See It. It's a practice, not a perfect. Let's get started.Lesley Logan 1:03  All right, Be It babe, I have a great human for you to hear from today. So I have been on a mission to help educate women on how to be it till they see it and part of that is you feeling like you have the health and the body and the strength and the stamina and the hormones that take you to where you want to go. And so today's guest is Kristin Mallon. She is part of the FemGevity team. You definitely have to listen to Michele Wispelwey's episode from last year, if you haven't, because the two combined are just absolutely wonderful. I have never had so much hope about women's health since I met them, and now I just feel educated, informed, supported. And so the first part of this episode is gonna feel medical-heavy, ladies, you gotta listen. Those of you, no matter where you are, what's going on, it's really good information. You can share it with a friend. And then, we have a really great, she blew my mind. I'm not kidding. What I expected her to answer and what she answered, wouldn't have guessed it in a multiple choice. And now that I know her, I would always, her tips and some of these things that she does for her life, have me wanting to reevaluate what I want to do in my year and what I want to call in more of. So this is just a chock-full episode. Thank you, Kristin Mallon from FemGevity for being here. And y'all make sure you let us know how this episode helped you. Share this with a friend. Here's the thing, we all have to educate each other and ourselves and support each other and to the few good men listening. Thank you so much. You should know this about women's health. Send it to your friend, your sister or your cousin, because this is how we all get stronger together. Lesley Logan 2:36  All right, Be It babe, this is going to be just so much fun. I have been sharing the reels that this woman has been putting out on Instagram multiple times. I'm like, I'm gonna share this one. I'm gonna share this one. We have Kristin Mallon in the house. She's a co-founder of FemGevity, and I love her. Love Michele. If you listened to the podcast I had with Michele Wispelwey, you know what they are. If you follow me at all, you know I'm obsessed with them and all that they're doing. So Kristin, can you tell everyone who you tell everyone who you are and what you rock at? Kristin Mallon 3:04  Yeah, I'm Kristin Mallon. I'm a certified nurse midwife, and I've been doing women's health for over 20 years, and really focusing on, obviously, being a midwife, the blend of medicine, but also ancient wisdom. Lesley Logan 3:17  Okay, I have a couple of things I wanna just chat with. Is like, first of all, I think midwives feel like, to me, they're becoming more and more popular and more and more accessible. Is that true? And then for the people who don't know what a midwife is, can you kind of break that down? Kristin Mallon 3:30  So, yes and no. I think there's pockets of the country where they're becoming popular and pockets of the country where they're becoming unpopular. There's a big, I think, problem in general, with the, you know, or challenge, I don't always like to say problem with, a big challenge with reimbursements across the board for all people that practice any type of Obstetrics and Gynecology, and so we're not really educating and training enough midwives. I think the desire is there and the demand is there, but then the burnout is high, and there's the business aspect, because most midwives are really altruistic, and they really kind of go into this type of work, because it's their passion. So that needs a little bit more support and needs a little bit more, you know, kind of hand-holding. Midwives are confusing, because people think midwives are doulas, people think midwives are doctors, and then kind of everything in between. So I am a board certified nurse midwife. So that's kind of like the highest level of midwifery training and education that you can get. I have a nursing degree. I have a master's degree in nursing and then I took a board certification that I maintain. You know, every year, there's a certain level of requirement that I have to attain. I deliver all of my births in a hospital, and I do assist on surgeries, and I do minor gynecological surgeries, and I really do everything that an obstetrician does, not really a gynecologist. So someone who's delivering babies working with babies, that's what I do. There's other types of midwives, so there's certified midwives who are midwives that are not nurses. There's lay midwives, which are midwives that are trained in a variety of different ways, usually kind of more culturally-trained. And then there's professional midwives, and their certification is a little bit different. And then all states have different governing boards about how they allow them to practice and not practice. But pretty much, if you're going to have a home birth, you're having a midwife. I know like one OB GYN in my whole career, and I know thousands of people in the birth space that he is a physician that does home births, but 96-ish, 95% of midwives are doing their births in a hospital setting so it's kind of confusing. They really are a nurse and an OB GYN had a baby and that's a midwife.Lesley Logan 5:41  Okay, I love that. Thank you for explaining it, because I think I definitely was one of the oh, it's like a doula. And I have a friend who's a doula, so I know clearly my friend is now finding out I didn't know what she did. Okay.Kristin Mallon 5:53  Well, and doulas are really, I always like to make this distinction and like the opportunity to educate people, because doulas have no medical training, no medical background, no medical certification, no licensing, they have to maintain and they can't perform any medical procedures. Whereas a midwife can do pretty much everything an obstetrician can do, except they can't be a primary surgeon on a surgical case.Lesley Logan 6:13  Yeah, yeah, that makes sense. Okay, so then you have been, so my other thing with what you've been rocking at is that you've been in, like, women's health medical field for 20 years, and I wonder, what have you seen change for the better, and what still needs changing that we can, you know, make sure we're aware of. I'm 42. This is coming out when I'm 42. I love that people are like, wow, you don't look 42. That's great. I would love to stay looking young as long as possible. That's wonderful. But I don't want to feel, I would like to feel young, too. So I'm just really excited about what you do and what you know about women's health.Kristin Mallon 6:49  Yeah, so we've come so far. So in the last 20 years, I think we've made remarkable strides in miscarriage care, in contraception and fertility care, in reproductive care, in breast health, just kind of an awareness, a lot of mental health awareness, a lot of cancer awareness, cardiovascular awareness. I think the areas where we need to improve on is definitely access. Not all women have access to the types of care they want. There's just not enough OB GYNs. And, unfortunately, there's not enough OB GYNs, there's not enough midwives. We're not graduating enough to replace the ones that are leaving the workforce on a year-to-year basis. It's kind of a big problem. And then, of course, which is what FemGevity is all about, is I know everybody can relate so well to this. You go to the doctor, you don't feel right, and they tell you, your labs are normal, but something's still wrong. And that's really where FemGevity was born, or birthed, so to speak, is from that sensation, because I dealt with that for 20 years. I was like, something's still, like, labs are normal, something's still wrong. Okay, let me look, let me dig, let me keep going. Let me pull from functional medicine. Let me pull from integrative medicine. Let me pull from longevity medicine. And let's figure that out. And a lot of that has to do with how women change decade to decade. So men kind of have this big change at puberty, and then they kind of peak, and then they kind of slowly evolve and change really gradually. And women are so different decade to decade. And once I kind of really started to unravel that and pull that back, it was easy to apply that to all the different things, including menopause care and endometriosis care, PCOS care, fertility care, reproductive care, women's health in general, from head to toe. And you know, a big thing that we do at FemGevity is a lot of gut health, like the gut is such a big overlooked thing. People think oh, I'm tired. I need to check for anemia, I need to check my thyroid. But we're like, no, you need to check your gut. We need to check micronutrient levels. We need to look deeper. So that's where I think we still have a long way to go and a long way to come, and that's what we're doing at FemGevity.Lesley Logan 8:50  Yeah, I think every woman listening is nodding their head when you're like, I went to the doctor and like, everything is normal. I actually had a female doctor in the, I forget what department it was, but it was like in these extreme diseases. And the woman, I got sent to her and she's like, do you feel supported by your doctor? And I'm, no, why am I here? This is the scariest place I could be. I am now very scared. Do I have AIDS? What is going on? And she's like, okay, I think we need to find, it was like a gut doctor who sent me there and because he couldn't figure what's going on, because I kept insisting, I'm not right, something's not right, and so I just got passed off. And, you know, a lot of people have, like, experienced a lot of family or in the holidays or birthdays, and you hear someone going, oh, it's what I ate yesterday. It's what I ate yesterday. I'm like, is it though, or is it something from a week ago? Or is it something? Because the gut is such a complicated, to me, it's complicated, place like it's not necessarily what you ate in the last meal. It could be from another meal that you don't remember.Kristin Mallon 8:51  Yeah, absolutely. And I think what you're talking about is it's really not doctors' faults, because the way that the healthcare system is set up, at least in the United States, is it's really crisis care, sick care, catastrophic care, cancer care, you know, the big C's of care. And if you don't have a chronic condition, you're really going to your doctor and you're saying do I have a chronic condition? And your doctor is telling you truthfully, no, you don't have something like diabetes or high blood pressure or cardiac disease, liver disease, kidney disease, etc. And so there's this huge gap between optimal health and chronic care and crisis care and sick care that needs to be filled, which is like what we're doing, and there's so much to be done. There's so much and then obviously it gets into the whole prevention of chronic care and crisis care in the long term. That's where my passion lies. That's what I'm really just I want for myself, I want for my family, I want for my friends. And I'm just like, so excited to let other women know, and men too, that there's an option. There's someone that can help you. There is a medically trained, licensed professional that can help navigate you through that. Well, everything's fine here, but you still don't feel right.Lesley Logan 10:58  Yeah, thank you for explaining that, because it is true that if you're not one of those big C's, you kind of feel like you're in this abyss. And it is amazing that FemGevity's kind of hope is like trying to fill that gap, which is really great. But I think I wonder, I obviously worry, if you don't get someone like you, eventually you end up in a few C's. The thing that's been bothering you that they haven't figured out, because it's not glaringly obvious, it's going to lead you that way. So let's just say most of the women here are over 40. What are some of the things that they need to make sure that they're checking as they're planning their annuals for this year and things like that, I guess, preventative wise, and then also just so that they're aware and they could be watching things as their body changes.Kristin Mallon 11:34  Well, one of the things that I really noticed working with women for so long is that women are really intuitive, and they tend, you know, some women are born and blessed with this great sense of intuition at the age of six, but most women grow and evolve into their intuition. And so there's so many different things women can focus on in their 40s. And I think a lot of times they know, they know, like, should I be focusing on hormone health? Should I be focusing on gut health? Should I be focusing on exercise, diet, nutrition, sleep? You know, the list goes on. And so what I like to do is, I like to, whenever I meet with a woman, is I kind of like to tease that out of her and try to get a sense from what she's already thinking herself, and really encourage her to go along that path and that trajectory like, you know, well, I've been thinking I should work on my sleep. And I've been thinking I should get a sleep tracker. And I'm like, yes, let's do that. What are your symptoms? Okay, I encourage her and say, I can see how that could be related to sleep, or I can see how that could be related to gut, or that could be related to diet. So I think in your 40s, it's really like you already know, and it's just kind of giving yourself the confidence to be like, okay, I know I need to find someone that's an expert in X that can help me unravel what could this possibly be, and then heading down that path. Lesley Logan 12:49  That's really beautiful. How nice Kristin, we could just listen to the intuition instead of like, sometimes people are trying to get you not to listen to it. It's like, focus on this over here. Focus on this over here. I think that's really wonderful and supportive. Kristin Mallon 13:03  Yeah, I mean, I think if you don't know where to start, sometimes, I think women can also have periods of less intuition, which I think is sometimes, like a leveling up, sometimes a stock will go down before it shoots up. And so maybe if you're caught in that place where you're like, you know, I don't know where to start, my mom says this. My sister says this. My friend said this. Usually it's hormones and gut just start with hormones. Get those checked by someone like myself, who's a hormone expert, who can read between the lines of what a normal lab, because a normal lab is saying, okay, you don't have Addison's disease, you don't have Cushing's disease, you don't have diabetes, you don't have hypothyroidism, but yeah, do you have subclinical fatigue related, a low T3? Do you have not enough conversion of the hormone T3 to T4 which any normal endocrinologist is going to be like, that doesn't matter. You don't have Hashimoto's, you don't have autoimmune disease, but you do have something that's affecting you. So hormones is a really good place to start. And then gut health. I mean, we do so many gut tests every day, and we rarely find someone that has like, a perfectly optimal, normal functioning gut. You know, I would say like, 99% of the time there's room for improvement in the gut.Lesley Logan 14:06  That is so funny. As we are recording this, I'm awaiting like, an update on a gut test, because y'all found a parasite the first time. And I was like, oh, well, that.Kristin Mallon 14:15  Oh, fun. Lesley Logan 14:16  I know. I was like, well, that's, you know, and people are like, oh, which country do you think you got it? I'm like you can get it from sushi, guys. It's not like I have to leave the country for this. Who knows? So I'm excited to see if it's gone. And also I had some dysbiosis, and I am excited, because I can tell when my gut health is strong. I have so much more energy. I feel like a more confident person. I feel more unstoppable. My sleep is absolutely amazing. It's not a surprise to me that, like, I had a little gut situation while I was traveling, and my sleep is off. I'm like, something's maybe something's going on there. So I really love that. If they're not working with you at FemGevity, what are they asking for? Because I know when I try to ask my female general practitioner for a hormone test, she specifically said, oh, you can't test those. They change all the time. And I was just like, I'm paying for this. I don't really know what you're worried about. So what should they be asking for or looking at when it comes to getting those things tested?Kristin Mallon 15:10  Yeah, so hormone health. So really, you kind of just want to get all your sex steroid hormones, which include sex hormone binding globulin, estradiol. If you really want to go deeper, you can get your estrone level done and your estriol level done, which you know maybe might not necessarily be necessary, progesterone, testosterone, free and total thyroid, insulin, cortisol. We do a lot of also functional medicine testing within that so usually, like hemoglobin A1C, homocysteine, CBC, looking at lipid panels, chemistry, liver function, kidney function. That's the general census of like, where you kind of want to go down. Prolactin levels are there too. I can even give you a list, because I'm rattling these off the top of my head, if you want to include it in your show notes, of the hormones I recommend getting. Lesley Logan 15:58  Yeah, we love that. Also, we'll transcribe this guys, so you can just go to the show notes and just take a screenshot. Kristin says.Kristin Mallon 16:05  Yeah, and I want to make sure I didn't forget any there too. Lesley Logan 16:07  Yeah, yeah, we'll love that. Kristin Mallon 16:08  For gut health, so there's really two companies that do, I think, so, you know, my business partner, Michele Wispelwey, her whole background was in the diagnostic lab space, so she is like a lab guru and knows everything. And also myself, like working with women and working with labs gone through so many renditions of labs over time, and labs that closed, and labs that were new and startup labs and labs that merged. And so I think there's a pretty standard gut test called a GI-MAP test, and there's another standard gut test called GI Effects. So GI-MAP is by Diagnostic Solutions, and GI Effects is by Genova Diagnostics. And so you can ask for a GI-MAP that's pretty, most really with it, longevity, functional medicine, integrative medicine, doctors are going to know what a GI-MAP test is, and that's kind of your standard gut test. I always caution women about, this is, like, a really classic thing that I saw with the advent so we do a lot of genomics, and we do a lot of genetic testing too. And so 23andMe came on the scene, and everybody was getting this direct to consumer test, and they were giving it to me, and I'm like, oh my gosh, this is so basic compared to what you can get from a licensed physician. And the same thing is true with like, over the counter gut tests. You can get an over the counter gut test that's probably going to cost you a similar amount of money when you go to a licensed medical provider, and it's just not going to tell you anywhere near as much like GI-MAP does, like 88 different pathogens and microbes. You're looking at yeast, parasites, you're looking for H. pylori, you're looking for dysbiosis, commensal bacteria. So good gut bacteria, bad gut bacteria, so many different things. You're getting virulence levels. So you're getting the actual amount. They're what are called PCR tests, which is like the kind of highest standard of care. So this was, like a big thing in COVID, was your COVID test, RNA, or DNA or PCR testing, and the PCR tests were the best tests. So you're just getting so much more when you go with those two companies. Lesley Logan 18:01  Yeah. So how often should we be doing this? We're getting our hormone test every year. Should we be doing a gut test annually? Is this something you have to do more often? How much is too much?Kristin Mallon 18:12  So I think once a year is probably the minimum, because you will be able to track yourself over time and be able to have data on yourself to look back at and say, okay, when I was 36 or when I was 46 or 56 my hormone levels were this and I felt this way. Some people check them every day. There's a, I just said don't do over the counter. But there is an over the counter test called Miracare, which is kind of like a fertility tracking device, where you can pee on a stick, and it will tell you what your daily progesterone and estrogen levels are. It tells you LH and FSH too, but that's not as important to the overall daily hormone picture. So you can do kind of anything but, once a year. The other thing about hormone testing is that it's important to know, like women get so much confusing information, do I need hormone testing? Do I not need hormone testing? Someone's giving me birth control without hormones or giving HRT without having my hormones tested. Like, why do I need it? Or why do I not need it? And so the gold standard hasn't been set yet. We haven't really come to a consensus as a medical community about how often should this be done. You know, we know in diabetes testing that someone should get a hemoglobin A1C like, every three to six months. We know in when someone's being put on a thyroid medication for the first time, we should check their thyroid every four to six weeks until it's managed and at a normal level. So this hasn't been set, which is why you have so many different clinicians with so many different conflicting views, including you don't need it or you do need it. The way we really use labs at FemGevity is once you've been looking at labs like I have for 20 years, you start to notice patterns. And even though these patterns aren't written down in a protocol by the American College of Obstetrician and Gynecologists, I'm just observationally matching it up with women have been telling me x and here's what the lab data is showing me. And so I'm using my clinical judgment. To kind of make those decisions. Also, it is true that your hormones can change so much, so when we look at an estrogen level, let's say you could be 33 in one blood draw and then in another blood draw with just a couple months apart, you could be like 133 but the main thing is is you're not zero, or you're not almost close to zero, and you're not 400 so you're kind of looking at it like a range versus an exact number. We do a lot of hormone balancing, and we do prescribe HRT and hormone replacement therapy. And so women will start on a hormone and their levels will actually go down. And so they're really confused. Well, I'm taking this extra hormone, but my levels are going down. And so it could just be exactly to what you said, like where we caught them in their cycle when we tested the first time, and then where we're catching them in their cycle and we test the second time. And if they don't have a menstrual cycle and are having a period anymore, they're still having ebbs and flows. Hormones are pulsatile. They pulse even like any hormone, like thyroid or insulin, insulin is a hormone, too. You can think about it, it just pulses into the bloodstream. And so are you catching it up on a trop or on a bow? And that's why we need to know. You know, let's say we give someone testosterone, for example, are you coming back with a male level in your bloodstream? Okay, that's too high. We need to cut down. So we're not waiting for symptoms to come up, symptoms of too much testosterone. We're checking the labs to make sure that we're in a ballpark. It's not so specific, and I think that can help women to interpret their labs and also to understand the big discrepancy. Well, this practitioner says this, and this practitioner says this, and neither of them are probably wrong.Lesley Logan 21:34  Yeah, first of all, I love that you have so much experience. As a Pilates instructor, right, when I was a new teacher, I'm like, okay, I don't know what that is. And then, as I've been teaching for almost 20 years, it's okay most people, when I see that, they have a hard time with this. So let's do this exercise over here, because you start to understand the patterns that are happening, and it makes an art to the science, I think. And also I appreciate you explaining that there isn't a gold standard yet, and that's unfortunate, because they just haven't been testing enough. There just hasn't been we lost a lot of time back when they thought HRT was the worst thing that could happen. I feel like we've we're trying to catch up with I feel like they're in the maybe it's just because now I'm 42 and that's what my algorithm shows. But I do feel like there's a lot more people researching this and coming up and testing things out, so we can have more people explore, and then we can learn more things. So that makes me happy. Okay, you and Michele started this amazing company together. Obviously, you're an incredible doctor. You know so much. What has been the funnest thing about starting a business, and what is the hardest thing that you're that you're like you are trying to because here's why I'm coming at this. I feel like I'm looking at, oh, my God, she is a doctor. She probably has her sleep under control, her hormones under control, all these things. Has it been easy to keep a balance in your own life doing this business and what's been the funnest part about what you guys do?Kristin Mallon 23:00  Yeah, so I would say that the funnest part is really getting to work together. Like, we really like each other, and we really get along, and we really have a lot of fun together. And so when we get to work together, it's like you get to work with your best friend. Like every day. It's really a really fun thing. I think, from the challenge perspective, I personally am a really big believer in like vibration attracts like vibration. And so as long as I'm kind of keeping my vibration in check and keeping my self clean, and I'm looking to reflect that reality outside of me, then everything kind of usually everything works out for me, and everything kind of falls into place. It's just kind of been my experience in life. So the challenge is, is that when things get off track, I usually have to remember to look in the mirror and be like, okay, what is it about me that is like, what thoughts or what influences am I allowing to come into my sphere and my energetic field that aren't in alignment with me, because that's being reflected in my outside world. So that's probably the big challenge, I would say. Lesley Logan 24:08  I so understand that, I really do, because it's not at the plate, and ladies, it's not, oh, everything is our fault. It's the, hold on, what did I bring to this energy that is causing this? Because, you know, there are people who just have force of natures, but I find that if I'm feeling a little nervous, if I'm feeling a little frenetic, if I'm feeling like I don't have control over things, and then I go into the business, the way that I ask for something comes from frenetic, non-controlled, not necessarily a specific place, and then it's a domino effect of the communication is off, and it's hold on, you know? So we do have to kind of take a step back and ask ourselves that, and that's the hardest thing to do in the moment. It's so hard in the moment to go. Hold on. Let me take a pause. How's my vibration? What am I bringing to this? Kristin Mallon 24:52  Yeah, it's hard if you say it's hard (inaudible). I always use a quote that I drilled into my mind, which is, like circumstances don't matter. Only state of being matters. And it's the state of being that makes your circumstances. It's not what happens, it's what I do with what happens. And I can usually, almost always have anything that happens be to my benefit and be to my good. It's kind of like going with the flow and being in the river versus trying to, like, paddle in a specific pattern. You don't know where all the rocks are, and you don't know where all the bumps are, and so if you kind of let the river take you, you usually can, you know, it doesn't look straight, and it always you're like, Hmm, I don't know if I would like go all the way over to the right, but then you realize that, oh, there was dead current in the middle of the river, and you needed to get to the side to get to the fast current. So I kind of try to think of that as much as possible. You know, it's not, I don't always win, but I'm winning most of the time, I hope. Lesley Logan 25:48  Kristin, that is so cool. That is amazing. We're clipping that and I'm gonna put that on my wall, because it is, I, especially, most of the women listening to this, they are caring for young children. They have older parents or family members in their life. They have. Kristin Mallon 26:08  Yeah, they're the in betweens. Lesley Logan 26:09  Yes, they have and they have jobs that they have to do. And then it can feel like the circumstances around you are just hard. And so what you just gave us, is such an amazing gift. Is like the state of being, like, how can I focus on that? So do you have tools? Or is it like a mantra that you say, is it that just that the mantra helps or like?Kristin Mallon 26:30  Oh my favorite mantra, I can give you my favorite mantra that works so well. Two words. So what? So what? Whatever it is like, so what? I mean, it works for 99.9% of things. If you're like this, that I'm going to be late, I didn't put the sandwich in the lunch bag, and I didn't do the permission slip, and I forgot to put these slides in a presentation. So what, you know? And I think that's something that's always really helped me to kind of see the forest through the trees. Lesley Logan 27:03  Yeah, I can see that because I am someone who's like, we're going to be late. And unless it's the plane, probably going to be most things are fine, (inaudible) catches the flight (inaudible).Kristin Mallon 27:16  Even if it is the plane being late might have your benefit, might be to your highest good, because maybe you met someone that now you're sitting on a different flight, or you ended up being able to not miss a phone call that was coming through. So, as long as I allow that type of vibration into my field, I usually end up having those results. The other thing that I think is super helpful, that I also kind of like encourage people to do, is, if you just do it a little bit, it kind of becomes second nature, which is to watch your definitions, watch how you define things. Because even like saying, oh, it's hard to do X, yeah, if you say, I'm working on doing X, or I'm getting better at doing X, or I'm improving my X, it's a much different definition than it's hard. And it's so fun for me. Like, when I first started doing this practice a couple years ago, it was so fun to change the definitions of things and just be like, oh, this happened. Well, that happened because it was so funny. My bra was showing or, I don't know, something happened where I didn't get the job I wanted to get, or I didn't get the client I wanted to get. And instead of it being like a failure, it was a learning experience, or instead of it being a mess up, it was an opportunity for growth or development or internal reflection, or for me to get this thing that I'm talking to you about right now, which is that I can choose how I define things. Lesley Logan 28:38  I really like that, because I do think it's fun. I'm going to keep working on catching myself. But one of the ones that sticks with me, because I was raised in a household that doesn't have a lot of money, and so they'd always say we don't have any money. There's no money for that. No you can't have it. There's no money for that. Kristin Mallon 28:50  I was, too.Lesley Logan 28:51  And I was, so was my husband, and we have been really conscious. I can always tell when one of us is in a bad state, because the words we'll say we can't afford that, which is like a not, like a non-sentence in this house, because the better phrase is, we are choosing not to invest in that right now. Oh, you know what? That's great. I'm not investing in that right now. Or that's actually not something we're spending money on today. So it's not that you don't have the money, it's not that you can't afford it. It's just not a priority in this moment. Kristin Mallon 29:20  That's a perfect example of the definitions. That sentiment. So, do you know the book by Napoleon Hill, Think and Grow Rich?Lesley Logan 29:27  Yes, I love it. I listened to the old tape or whatever. I maybe I should do that again as the year starts.Kristin Mallon 29:33  Yeah. Well, that's the epitome of what you just said. That's one of the big lessons that he talks about in that book. And that book influenced The Secret. So that's (inaudible).Lesley Logan 29:42  And everyone you can go to the original source, it's still out there. Do you remember the part? Because you're, I don't know if you maybe it didn't stick with you, but he mentioned the woman who would always put her hand on her left breast and go oh, I'm gonna get cancer. I just know I'm gonna die from cancer. And she'd always say that, and then she died of breast cancer. She like, literally, she kept putting her hand on herself saying she's gonna get it. It's like not saying that anyone who gets cancer did that to themselves. That's not it at all. But it's just like we, our words, have so much power, and we really do. I love that redefining. You guys, how are you going, like, I wonder you guys have to send in to the Be It Pod and to FemGevity which words you're redefining. I think that'd be really fun for us all to see as an experiment. Kristin, what are you most excited about right now? This is out in 2025. What are you excited that's coming up, that you guys are doing? What's going on? Kristin Mallon 30:30  I'm really excited that this concept of, so I think over the years, we've kind of defined it as functional medicine, and then we defined it as integrative medicine, and now we're defining it as longevity medicine, and I'm just so excited to be a part of that ecosystem and the effects that it has. I mean, I work with women primarily, so the effects that it has on women and the aha moments they have, and that feeling that, I think, that liberation that they've been looking for for so long that they're not just like, going down, down, down, down, down, but that they're actually going up, up, up and getting better is like, so rewarding and so fun that I'm just like, so passionate and excited about sharing that with women as much as possible. Anybody who wants to hear me talk about it, I'm like, do you want to hear me talk about optimization of health? Like, I'm totally down.Lesley Logan 31:20  I also like that it's changed to longevity medicine because the other ones were a bit vague and hard for I feel like this is what people want. It's not when you're like, oh yeah, I want a functional medicine. I guess that makes sense, but it doesn't sound sexy. I want a long life where I have longevity. I don't want to just be old. I want to have be strong and energized when I'm older, you know, I want all those things. So I think that's really cool. Since you love to talk about optimal health, is there anything else about optimizing our health that we didn't talk about that we should know about, that we should check on? Kristin Mallon 31:51  I always say don't give up on yourself, because I think women, so many times have been told no, or they go to the wrong doctor, or they hit dead ends and they think there's no hope. And if you don't give up on yourself, and you hear a podcast like this, and you're like, okay, I need to find a longevity medicine doctor. I need to find a hormone balancing expert. Or they can come over to FemGevity if they're in the United States, we can usually work with them in some way. There is a path to not just feeling better, but feeling like fantastic and great and energized. And I know there's people listening that are like, yeah, this girl's crazy. There's no way I'm so chronically fatigued. My kids are little, my parents are dying or sick. There is, there really, really, really, is just keep going on yourself and don't give up until you find the right person and the right practitioner to help you. It's worth it. So worth it.Lesley Logan 32:41  Oh, I love that. Thank you for that gift. That's a good one. We're gonna take a brief break, and then we're gonna find out where people can find you, follow you, work with you and your Be It Action Items. Lesley Logan 32:51  All right, Kristin, where can people find you? I'm gonna give you the link right now. You can go to beitpod.com/femgevity, because you guys can go and get a call and see how they can help you. But where else on the internet are y'all at?Kristin Mallon 33:04  So our website, femgevityhealth.com and all social media channels @femgevity. So we're on TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, LinkedIn.Lesley Logan 33:15  It's probably really fun to be doctors and researchers that have to then learn social media and all the hacks. And I also love that I've got my captions to actually spell FemGevity out correctly. They can't spell my name, they can't spell my dog's name, but they can spell FemGevity. So that's the way to go, ladies. Yeah, okay, you've given us a lot of great stuff already, but for our action takers who are listening, bold, executable, intrinsic or targeted, steps people can take to be it till they see it. What do you have for us?Kristin Mallon 33:48  So my best advice is, whenever in doubt, follow your highest excitement in any given situation. It's a breadcrumb trail that kind of leads you to your biggest and best self. So follow your highest excitement to the best of your ability with no insistence or assumption on the outcome, and it always leads you to the best location, place, time for you.Lesley Logan 34:09  Oh my gosh, you're so cool. Kristin Mallon 34:14  Yeah, you too.Lesley Logan 34:15  Well, thank you, but, yeah, like, what a great tip. That's so fun, because most people say, like, follow your gut. And I've got these people going my gut's off something's wrong. But highest excitement, oh. Kristin Mallon 34:28  It's easy to do, because even if you think about it, you're like, and as soon as we get off this call, right, there's going to be a whole bunch of things you could do. You could check your email, you could take your dog for a walk, you could stretch, you could do Pilates. But if you just tune into like, which one is most exciting, more than any of the others. It'll lead you down a really thrilling and rewarding path.Lesley Logan 34:47  Oh yes, yes, it will, oh yeah, the doctor has ordered that I have to follow my highest excitement. I'm going to do that as soon as I hang up. Y'all please, if you, if this at all has you intrigued, contact FemGevity. It's really nice to have doctors who actually want to look at things and look at patterns, and, you know, don't want to just tell you, it's all good, yep, that problem. I don't know. It's really nice if someone listened to you, and I will just shout out, I was traveling for almost a month, and I got an email from your team going okay, you have to do your call. And I'm like, oh, my God, a doctor that wants me to come for my appointment. They not that other doctors don't. I'm sure I have doctors listening, but you can wait in the waiting room for 45 minutes. You guys make sure. Made sure I made my call, and I'm so glad I did, because I needed that call, and it's just really nice to have someone to look out for my optimal health. So thank you so much for all you do at FemGevity. Lesley Logan 35:40  You guys, how are you going to use these tips in your life? Make sure you tag FemGevity. Tag the Be It Pod. And share this with a girlfriend who, like is frustrated with their health and they're feeling stuck and feeling going in circles. You know, it's kind of nice to be reminded to not give up on yourself. So thank you, Kristin, for that. And until next time everyone, Be It Till You See It. Lesley Logan 35:59  That's all I got for this episode of the Be It Till You See It Podcast. One thing that would help both myself and future listeners is for you to rate the show and leave a review and follow or subscribe for free wherever you listen to your podcast. Also, make sure to introduce yourself over at the Be It Pod on Instagram. I would love to know more about you. Share this episode with whoever you think needs to hear it. Help us and others Be It Till You See It. Have an awesome day. Be It Till You See It is a production of The Bloom Podcast Network. If you want to leave us a message or a question that we might read on another episode, you can text us at +1-310-905-5534 or send a DM on Instagram @BeItPod.Brad Crowell 36:41  It's written, filmed, and recorded by your host, Lesley Logan, and me, Brad Crowell.Lesley Logan 36:46  It is transcribed, produced and edited by the epic team at Disenyo.co.Brad Crowell 36:51  Our theme music is by Ali at Apex Production Music and our branding by designer and artist, Gianfranco Cioffi.Lesley Logan 36:58  Special thanks to Melissa Solomon for creating our visuals.Brad Crowell 37:01  Also to Angelina Herico for adding all of our content to our website. And finally to Meridith Root for keeping us all on point and on time.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/be-it-till-you-see-it/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Dr. Christopher Estes joins the podcast today to discuss his distinct approach to functional medicine and the intersection of Eastern and Western medicine. As the Co-Founder of Miami Beach Comprehensive Wellness Center, Dr. Estes is a board-certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist who works hard to uncover the root causes of various medical conditions – no matter how complex they may seem.  Miami Beach Comprehensive Wellness Center offers an array of therapies for both women and men. This includes functional medicine evaluations, intravenous and ozone therapies, platelet-rich plasma therapies, peptide therapies, energetic medicine, and Acutonics sound healing.  From managing environmentally acquired illnesses to offering comprehensive detoxification programs, Dr. Estes is on a mission to help people of all ages optimize their health using an integrated approach to wellness… Jump in now to learn about: What complex chronic medical illnesses are, and how they can be holistically treated. Common reasons why people seek stem cell therapy. How your diet impacts your overall health.  What ozone therapy is used for, and how it's administered.  You can find more information on Dr. Estes and his work with Miami Beach Comprehensive Wellness Center by clicking here! Upgrade Your Wallet Game with Ekster!  Get the sleek, smart wallet you deserve—and save while you're at it! Use coupon code FINDINGGENIUS at checkout or shop now with this exclusive link: ekster.com?sca_ref=4822922.DtoeXHFUmQ5  Smarter, slimmer, better. Don't miss out! Episode also available on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/30PvU9C

In this episode I discuss with fellow physiotherapist, Dr. Sinéad Dufour:Reasons we may be seeing more instrumented births and cesareans despite the goal for a physiological birthInternational clinical guidelines favour limited use of routine medical interventions BUT most labour and birth practices don't align with this Impacts that stress, anxiety and fear have on birth outcomes New research: Brain training using strategies like mindfulness and providing pain education can help with birth outcomes, birth satisfaction and increase chance of physiological birth Dr. Sinéad Dufour is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Faculty of Health Science at McMaster University.  She teaches and conducts research in both the Schools of Medicine and Rehabilitation Science.  She completed her MScPT at McMaster University (2003), her PhD in Health and Rehabilitation Science at Western (2011), and returned to McMaster to complete a post-doctoral fellowship (2013). Her current research interests include: conservative approaches to manage pelvic floor dysfunction, pregnancy-related pelvic-girdle pain, and interprofessional collaborative practice models of service provision to enhance pelvic health.  Additionally, Sinéad has undergone training in Functional Medicine through the Institute of Functional Medicine and is currently completing a full certificate program with Dr. Aviva Romm.   Sinéad stays current clinically through her work as the Director of Pelvic Health Services at The World of my Baby (the WOMB) a family of perinatal care centers in Ontario, Canada.  In addition to managing her own very busy caseload, she mentors novice pelvic health physiotherapists and is a clinical preceptor for family medicine residents and midwifery students from McMaster University.  Sinéad in an invited member on several committees for various organizations including the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada and the International Continence Society. She is also serving as the Guest Editor for the upcoming special issue: Optimizing the Fourth Trimester, for the Women's Health Physical Therapy Journal. Her passion for optimizing perinatal care and associated upstream health promotion for women and children stemmed from her own experience becoming a mother of twins.  She is an advocate for women's pelvic health and a regular invited speaker at conferences around the world. HOW TO CONTACT Sinéad:Instagramwww.thewomb.caPAPERS REFERENCED:Pain Neuroscience Education to Support Birth: A Feasibility StudyBrain Training to Facilitate Labor and Birth: Impact of a Mobile Health Application(Contact me for full article)ADDITIONAL EPISODES ON THE TOPIC OF BIRTH PREPARATION:40. Preparing the mind for birth with doula, Elise Ruel45. Pelvic floor education before birth with Kimberley JohnsonTHANK YOU TO THE EPISODE SPONSORSSRC Health: discount code and website: https://srchealth.com/?ref=Sto_l3PawmnH4. Discount Code: THEPELVICFLOORPROJECTThanks for joining me! Here is where you can find out how to work with me:  www.pelvicfloorprojectspace.com/Support the show

Dr. Christina Francis CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians & Gynecologists joins Trending with Timmerie discussing facts about the abortion pill — the most common type of abortion today making up more that 3 out of 5. (0:43) She discusses medical misinformation about life-saving care and miscarriages. (26:02) When do we know human life begins? How does this impact abortion, IVF, and contraception? (40:23) Resources mentioned: Abortion Pill Reversal https://www.abortionpillreversal.com/ For medical professionals who want to become members aaplog.org/join Practice guidelines on concluding pregnancy ethically https://aaplog.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PG-10-Concluding-Pregnancy-Ethically-updated.pdf Amber Nicole Thurman who died from abortion complications https://relevantradio.com/2024/09/fewer-babies-economic-catastrophe/ Practice guidelines on concluding pregnancy ethically https://aaplog.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/PG-10-Concluding-Pregnancy-Ethically-updated.pdf

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Dr. Bill Chun is a certified OBGYN who has worked over the past thirty years at hospitals throughout the Greater Boston Area. He has delivered hundreds and hundreds of babies over the course of his career and interacted with patients over 200,000 times. He is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. He currently treats patients at Women's Healthcare of Woburn, his private practice just north of Boston, where he provides comprehensive gynecologic care including minimally-invasive robotic surgeries. He is answering questions this episode surrounding induction, informed consent and patient's rights.  This is an amazing episode for anyone that is pregnant! Connect with Dr. Chun: https://topmate.io/bill_chun https://www.instagram.com/billchunmd/ https://www.instagram.com/doc_and_doula/ Text Dr. Chun 978-914-4809   Connect with Liz https://www.instagram.com/esandoz/?hl=en Check out the BIRTH PLAN PREP COURSE code JOY20 https://www.Elizabethjoy.co     Get the First Trimester Survival Guide https://elizabethjoy.co/freebie Birth Plan Guide https://elizabethjoy.co/birth-plan-freebie Become a Doula! https://elizabethjoy--theautonomymommy.thrivecart.com/academy-bonus-bundle/

Today, we're joined by Dr. Christina Francis, CEO of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, who is sharing the truth about the misinformation we're seeing in the media about abortions and miscarriages. She discusses what is really going on in hospitals where doctors claim they're confused about pro-life laws and what procedures they're allowed to perform. Are these pro-life laws really that confusing, or is there something more sinister going on? What really happened to Amber Thurman and Candi Miller, and is an abortion to "save the mother's life" ever really necessary? She shares why intent matters and how we can keep the conversation going in the midst of media lies. Get your tickets for Share the Arrows: https://www.sharethearrows.com/ Pre-order Allie's new book: https://a.co/d/4COtBxy --- Timecodes: (01:01) Introduction to Dr. Francis (04:57) Relationship with ACOG (15:00) Equality Act & Women's Health Protection Act (19:40) Amber Thurman & Candi Miller / abortion pills (33:00) Are doctors really confused? (44:55) Maternal-fetal separation vs. abortion --- Today's Sponsors: Patriot Mobile — go to PatriotMobile.com/ALLIE or call 972-PATRIOT and use promo code 'ALLIE' for a free month of service! EveryLife — The only premium baby brand that is unapologetically pro-life. EveryLife offers high-performing, supremely soft diapers and wipes that protect and celebrate every precious life. Head to EveryLife.com and use promo code ALLIE10 to get 10% of your first order today! Alliance Defending Freedom — my friends at Alliance Defending Freedom are offering you their free, practical guide called 3 Ways for Parents to Navigate Destructive Gender Ideology in Schools. Just go to joinADF.com/ALLIE to download the guide for free. Focus on the Family — subscribe to "Focus on the Family" with Jim Daly today on your favorite podcast platform or visit focusonthefamilywithJimDaly.com. --- Relevant Episodes: Ep 1069 | The C-Section Scam & America's OBGYN Problem | Guest: Dr. Marty Makary https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1069-the-c-section-scam-americas-obgyn-problem/id1359249098?i=1000669974682 Ep 785 | Abortion Pill Ban? & NPR's Accidentally Pro-Life Story https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-785-abortion-pill-ban-nprs-accidentally-pro-life-story/id1359249098?i=1000608247337 Ep 1070 | Kamala Is Lying About Miscarriages for Votes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-1070-kamala-is-lying-about-miscarriages-for-votes/id1359249098?i=1000670091812 --- Buy Allie's book, You're Not Enough (& That's Okay): Escaping the Toxic Culture of Self-Love: https://alliebethstuckey.com/book Relatable merchandise – use promo code 'ALLIE10' for a discount: https://shop.blazemedia.com/collections/allie-stuckey Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“This is your life, your body. And you get one,” says Kiarra King, MD.  Kiarra King, M.D., a board-certified gynecologist, is driving transformative change in the reproductive health space by focusing on educating and empowering women. In this episode, she shares her expertise on everything from fertility to menopause, and everything in between, including: -What we've gotten wrong about women's hormones (~0:50) -Labs across the lifespan (~3:40) -The importance of education (~5:20) -HRT for men and women (~8:00) -The history of IUDs (~13:20) -Advice for fertility testing (~16:13) -Modern options for conceiving (~25:00) -Becoming a better advocate at the doctor's office (~28:30) -The future of wearables (~35:18) Referenced in the episode:  -Connect with Kiarra online (https://drkiarraking.com/)  -Follow her on Instagram (drkiarraking)  -Check out Mellow Menopause by Olly (www.olly.com) We hope you enjoy this episode, and feel free to watch the full video on YouTube! Whether it's an article or podcast, we want to know what we can do to help here at mindbodygreen. Let us know at: podcast@mindbodygreen.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices