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…
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Depression and Anxiety in women with PCOS Depression and Anxiety in women with PCOS December 25, 2015 January is a month when many feel the effects of the holiday season coming to a sudden end. The decorations must all be put away; there is often a big mess of discarded wrappings to deal with, thank…
Attention PCOS Moms : Diagnosis and Treatment of PCOS in Young Girls Most doctors and patients alike believe that PCOS is a condition which appears in the teen years, following the advent of puberty and the onset of periods. In reality, shocking as it may seem, PCOS begins at birth! Now how, you may ask, can…
Progesterone Cream for PCOS: Is it Right for You? Many women with PCOS realize that they have significant hormonal dysfunctions, manifesting in many ways, including menstrual irregularities, thyroid problems, insulin resistance and glucose dysregulation, weight loss resistance, sleep problems, and infertility. Among the many hormones which can be dysfunctional is progesterone. Of particular concern are…
Microbiome and PCOS Until fairly recently, you could look at yourself in a mirror and believe that the reflection was the real “you.” No longer is that the case! It is now recognized that more DNA exists within us, derived from our Microbiome, than from our own genetic tissues. The Microbiome consists of the trillions…