Why Sweet Potatoes Are a Healthy Alternative Sadly, many consider the sweet potato a bad food choice because it has carbohydrates and is very starchy. The unjustified maligning of this regal root vegetable needs to stop now! Only processed carbs are evil! Natural starchy vegetables, eaten without deep frying them, are incredibly healthy and truly…
Dr. Gersh is the medical director of IMGI and is board-certified in Integrative Medicine and OB-GYN. She is a globally-renowned expert in women’s health and complex disease management.
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How Your Gut Health Impacts Your Overall Health A healthy gut impacts your overall health. The gut microbiome is highly responsive to diet, and impacts every aspect of physiology from digestion to endocrine function. In this video webinar for Pure Encapsulations, Dr. Felice L. Gersh discusses the clinical connections between the gut microbiome and women’s health, with…
Should We Remove Fallopian Tubes as a Cancer Preventative? This is an interesting topic – the prophylactic removal of body structures to hopefully lower cancer incidence and mortality. Removal of the Fallopian tubes has recently become a big topic of discussion in GYN circles as there is recent data showing that by doing so the…
When I was seeing large numbers of pregnant women, I was told to do many things, because they were safe and beneficial. Reality check – they were not!! For example, I was told I could give Acetaminophen and now we know it can cause deformities of male genitalia. Years ago it was encouraged to give…
Heart Health and Pregnancy Women who have the fewest number of reproductive years during their lives have a higher than normal risk of heart failure, according to a new research article published by the American College of Cardiology. As well, women who never gave birth are also at an increased risk for heart failure. It…