Flu season is around the corner, and while I’m not going to tell anyone over 65 to avoid getting a flu shot, I am going to share the dark truth about the jab that your doctor won’t tell you.   Here it is, in all its burnished glory: flu shots don’t do much good for…

I am smitten with estrogen, and it pains me terribly to see it constantly vilified. Big pharma has, for a long time, blamed the hormone for causing breast cancer and dementia. Birth control pills, which in fact contain NO estrogen at all, are marketed as containing the lowest dose, as if introducing even the smallest…

The female heart can suffer harm in a number of ways. Certain types of chemotherapeutic agents can create major cardiac injury, viruses can cause myocarditis, and radiation can do serious damage to the coronary arteries and to the muscle tissue itself. But heart health can be adversely affected by something that millions of women take…

I lecture often on the topic of women, hormones, and hearts. Heart disease is the number one cause of death in women – in fact, it kills more women every year than cancer. However, research shows “significant” disparities in the way women are treated – in terms of diagnosis, management and outcomes – compared to…

I feel somewhat dubious when a particular food is declared a “superfood”. Whether it’s wheatgrass, blueberries, kale, chia seeds or goji berries, once a product has been labeled a superfood, it’s guaranteed that the time will come when someone vehemently denounces it. Now, apparently, it’s the turn of coconut oil to face the firing squad.…