Some people hydrate infrequently, drinking only frozen water surrounded by alcohol. Other people hydrate religiously but they jeopardize their weight, fertility, and hormone levels by naively drinking questionable water. Wait, questionable water!?Absolutely. A 2010 Great Lakes Basin water study revealed that “detectable concentrations of pharmaceutical compounds were present in 34% of the surface water samples”.“But […]
In a previous article, I discussed some of the many possible causes of female sexual pain. In this follow-up I will discuss how physical therapy can address some sources of pain with sex, give guidance on how to find a therapist, and offer tips to consider when engaging in this specialized type of physical therapy.A […]
This is Part 1 of 2 articles. Part 2 is entitled: How to (Try) to Protect Yourself From ADR’s: The Six Big Clues I Wish I Had Seen. I’m lying in my bed, with my arms and legs straight out. I figured out pretty fast that any stress whatsoever on the tendons, makes things worse for […]
There are some rare diseases that appear at birth known as inborn errors of metabolism. Their symptoms are nonspecific in most cases and each of them is unrecognizable clinically, with some exceptions. All of them are genetically determined. Most of them can be spotted from a tiny sample of blood that is sent to a […]
The term ‘Spin Doctor’ wouldn’t be coined until much later, but it was already clear by the time of the Nelson Pill Hearings that some prominent physicians were willing to twist statistics, incorporate doublespeak, and create confusion in any way they could to defend hormonal birth control. They were Spin Doctors in the truest sense. Fortunately, […]
Last week, I posted yet another story on our Facebook group about how women’s health is ignored and psychologized by the medical profession. It is neither a new topic nor something particularly earth shattering. We post hundreds, if not thousands, of these stories both on our Facebook page and on Hormones Matter itself. Indeed, the […]
In the past few months, I have come to realize that some of the most common words are just downright confusing. Protein is one of them. I decided to write about it because the more involved in nutrition, metabolism, biochemistry and physiology I become, the more confusion I recognize among people in discussions about protein. […]
The Hippocratic Oath, supposedly sworn to by all physicians when they graduate, is well known to contain the sentence “Thou shalt do no harm”. In spite of this, the “Table of iatrogenic deaths in the United States” (deaths induced inadvertently by a physician or surgeon or by medical treatment or diagnostic procedure) lists 106,000 cases […]