Being a woman can be a challenge for lots of reasons, not least of which being our faithful monthly cycle. Realistically, all humans, male and female, old and young, have a regular cycling of hormones but women seem to feel the effects much more acutely than men. Many of us don’t actually even know what is happening to our bodies over the course of a “monthly” cycle, we just know that we are uncomfortable and we want chocolate more than usual. In fact, what’s happening is a delicate balance of hormone production that affects everything from our skin to our mood to our general wellness and everything in between.
The thyroid is often discussed as an integral part of the metabolic systems of the body, but many of us don’t understand how it works or what it does. Well, every single cell in your body depends on the thyroid to regulate their metabolic functions, which in turn regulates the functions of your organs, controlling things like heart rate, breathing, digestion, and the nervous system, among others.
The ever-advancing and changing nature of technology has permeated practically every part of life in the modern world. The healthcare industry is no exception. The idea of telemedicine has been around for more than half of a century, but the strides made over the past twenty-plus years with the rapid advancement of smart devices with video capabilities and interactive apps has sped the process to begin to drastically change the way we approach modern healthcare.
Fibroids are benign muscular tumors that appear on the uterus. Some are so small they are invisible to the naked eye; women with fibroids this small rarely experience symptoms or even know they have them. In other cases, however, fibroids can grow quite large and grow in clusters. Although they are almost always non-cancerous, these growths can cause a host of problems, including pain and bleeding.
Every March, Endometriosis Awareness Month takes place across the world with a mission to raise awareness of the disease which affects an estimated 176 million women around the globe.
Western medicine has become the norm in our culture, meaning we often jump right from symptoms to prescriptions. While a modern approach to health issues may often be the best course of treatment, it’s important we remember it’s not the only one.
As a holistic medicine practitioner, Dr. Simone Sturm fields questions about all the latest health trends on the market. But few have proven to be as as controversial as the topic of phytoestrogens.
In recent years, more and more women have been switching their routine women’s health care from a traditional obstetrician-gynecologist (OB-GYN) to a nurse practitioner (NP). What exactly is an NP?
For some couples, conceiving a child seems to come easy. This is especially true when you are struggling with fertility issues, seeing others get pregnant, seemingly without effort. For a couple struggling with infertility, the painful reality is that trying to become pregnant becomes a full-time job; for them, there is a much smaller chance of “a happy accident” or becoming pregnant “when the time is right”.
