What is protein? Protein is a macronutrient (often shortened to “macro”) along with carbohydrates and fats.  The body derives energy, in...

It has taken me four years after graduating from residency training to realize and change my unfortunate relationship with food....

There’s a law in physics that states “An object in motion stays in motion.”  I am by no means a physicist.  I only took physics in...

If you’re using or considering using estrogen as part of your hormone replacement therapy, let’s talk about how that can be taken. In...

If you’ve ever been pregnant and subsequently postpartum, you may have noticed a time when your hair was shedding excessively.  This is...

Last week I had a day off, one of only three this month, and I used it to take an exam.  This was the certifying exam to be a National...

If you’ve heard that taking hormones will cause breast cancer, you’re not alone. If you’ve heard mixed information, some people saying...

The lifetime risk of breast cancer for women is 1 in 8, or about 12%.  This is for the average risk person, not someone who has a genetic...

I say hot flashes because that’s a more well-known term than the medical term vasomotor symptoms, which also includes night sweats. ...

There are a couple of nuances of how we choose Vitamin D that I’d like to address. The first is where to get the Vitamin D: sunlight or...

I was able to meet with Dr. Lanna Cheuck, a trained urologist and now powerhouse in the world of aesthetic medicine. She was in her late...

I actually was not aware of this awareness month until I saw it posted recently on social media.  There are so many awareness days and...

Have you felt embarrassed at work because you break out in a sweat for no reason and look flushed? Do you wear a fan around your neck?...

I remember in 6th or 7th grade being in a computer class.   We had a typing test, where words-per-minute was calculated.  I typed over...

When I was a sophomore in high school, I had a different Spanish teacher than I’d had previously.  Of course the class grade was broken...