Integrative Medical Group of Irvine provide a wide range of services, including physical exams and annual women’s visits, acute and chronic care, and a full spectrum of preventive and wellness care.
Because coordinated care at one site provides the best opportunity for achieving optimal health, IMGI provides:
Additional services include naturopathy, acupuncture, massage, and IV therapy.
Why do women live longer than men? Does the ability to bear children play a role and to what extent do evolutionary forces discriminate between men and women?
In this in-depth interview Dr. Gersh explains why she “had to unlearn” about half of everything she learned at medical school calls for a fundamental “shake-up” in the delivery of health care.
Dr Gersh is an AMAZING Doctor. She has extensive knowledge in many fields and is STILL always learning. I don’t know how she does it! I have been working as an independent contractor of Medical Massage in her office for over a decade.
Dr. Gersh is an absolutely extraordinary doctor and human. Even though all my visits to her haven’t been for happy reasons, she absolutely has put all my worries at ease. She is extremely knowledgeable and is ready and willing to run the tests necessary to find out the root cause of any issue.
Dr. Gersh has been my primary care doctor for over twenty years. I have always found her to be interested, caring, and concerned about my health. She takes the extra time to spend with you, to find out how your life is in relation to how your health is.
I trust Dr. Gersh to give me a complete holistic exam and consultation. Dr. Gersh interprets the data from all the blood testing and makes adjustments to my diet and prescriptions. I am involved in two clinical trials of the Women’s Health Initiative and take my Healthy Aging seriously.
Felice L. Gersh, M.D. is that rare combination of a physician who is Board-Certified in both OB/GYN and Integrative Medicine who is able to utilize the most cutting-edge and high-tech…
Bob received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University and a Master’s degree from the University of Southern California, and continues to pursue his life-long love of physical fitness, exercise, and…
Karli Koval, PA-C, is a board-certified physician assistant who has been passionate about integrative medicine since she stumbled upon it as a patient dealing with hormonal dysfunction in her teen…
Cherie specializes in relieving pain caused by migraine headaches, arthritis, fibromyalgia, pre- and post-surgical procedures, automobile and sports injuries. She is highly adept at releasing impinged nerves and bound-up muscle…
After menopause, if a woman is NOT on hormone replacement therapy AND she has dense breasts, then that is a sign of inflammation and that IS a risk factor for breast cancer.
So, in summary:
🚫 Dense breasts in a reproductive-aged woman with natural levels of ovarian estradiol = NOT a risk
🚫 Dense breasts in a menopausal woman taking human-identical hormone replacement therapy = NOT a risk
Dense breasts in a menopausal woman not on hormone replacement therapy = YES, a risk for breast cancer
You can watch my full talk about breast density and cancer risk on youtube.
https://youtu.be/uge_HRFfAYc
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#densebreasts #breastdensity #mammogram #mammography #breastcancer #breastcancerrisk #bhrt #estradiol #hrtissafe #inflammation #menopause #inflammation #inflammaging
After menopause, if a woman does take estrogen as part of hormone replacement therapy, the estrogen will stimulate the ductal cells the same way that estrogen does in a reproductive-aged woman. This is keeping the breasts young, healthy, and, yes, dense. So women on HRT will have dense breasts and this is NOT an increased cancer risk.
You can watch my full talk about breast density and cancer risk on youtube.
https://youtu.be/uge_HRFfAYc
LINK IN BIO
#densebreasts #breastdensity #mammogram #mammography#breastcancer #breastcancerrisk #bhrt #estradiol#bisphosphonates #hrtissafe #inflammation #menopause
After menopause, if a woman is NOT on hormone replacement therapy, a normal mammogram will look dark because the breasts lose their density and become mostly fat. The ductal cells, which are important for breast feeding and which create breast density, atrophy and shrivel up without estrogen. So, dense breasts after menopause in a women not taking hormones are not normal. Watch my entire talk to learn why.
You can watch my full talk about breast density and cancer risk on youtube.
https://youtu.be/uge_HRFfAYc
LINK IN BIO
#densebreasts #breastdensity #mammogram #mammography #breastcancer #breastcancerrisk #bhrt #estradiol #bisphosphonates #hrtissafe #inflammation #menopause
In reproductive-aged women, dense breasts are NORMAL. They are not a cancer risk.
A study recently came out showing that women don't understand the risks associated with dense breasts. This is the least surprising thing ever since most doctors don't either. In this video, I talk about which women have dense breasts (hint: most young women do!) and why breast density is associated with an increased cancer risk primarily in a very specific group of women.
You can watch my entire talk on youtube.
https://youtu.be/uge_HRFfAYc
LINK IN BIO
#densebreasts #breastdensity #mammogram #mammography #breastcancer #breastcancerrisk #bhrt #estradiol #bisphosphonates #hrtissafe
I'm so proud to announce that an article that I authored with colleagues Dr. Jim Parker and Claire O’Brien for the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology is one of the top cited articles of the past year.
Understanding the origins of PCOS and the interplay of genetics, the in-utero environment, lifestyle, and environmental factors is key to both treating PCOS and empowering women to minimize the inheritance of PCOS by their daughters.
From the Abstract:
Human observational and animal experimental data support the hypothesis that PCOS is an inherited condition that arises as a result of developmental programming of normal gene variants. It is likely that these genes can be amplified by in-utero androgen exposure and activated by a range of postnatal lifestyle and environmental factors. Endocrine disrupting chemicals have the potential to influence developmental programming of PCOS susceptibility genes.
You can see the article here:
https://obgyn.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/ajo.13420
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#TopCitedArticle #ANZJOG @ranzcog #PCOS #polycysticovarysyndrome #epigenetics
A few pictures from our last day of our Nile cruise.
#ancientegypt #travel #travelbug #nilecruise #egyptiantombs #nefertaristomb #ramses
