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Curiosity is my new Superpower
I have spent my life working hard, attempting to balance the stress of a busy professional life with trying to raise 3 good humans of my own, while at the same time nurturing my relationship with my husband. This hard work has brought me great success, but left very little time for myself. People would often say to me, “you’re a supermom”, I guess because I always seemed to keep things in balance? And to keep this illusion of balance, I became a consummate multi-tasker, always managing to keep the balls in the air. I always assumed that was my super-power. But there is a video of my kids, I…
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Modern Day Hunger Games
The connections between what we consume and our health has long been realized and studied. There is substantial and increasingly robust evidence to show that consumption of a “healthy” diet can have profound impacts on our health and well-being. I don’t think any of us would argue with that. But just what constitutes healthy? We have been taught over the years to think about food based on the supposed 4 major groups – carbs, protein, dairy and fruits/vegetables. This has led to the ever growing barrage of conflicting dietary advice on Insta or tik-tok; should you be paleo or keto; vegan or carnivore; low fat or low carb? This binary…
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There Really Might be Something Wrong With Your Hormones
As a practicing ob/gyn for nearly 25 years, I spent my professional lifetime taking care of women, giving information and educating my patients about all manner of things to do with their health. I truly loved my job. The relationships I developed with patients over the years were unbelievable, and I would like to think over the decades I was in practice that I was making a difference in the lives of women. But in the last decade or so, there was this one persistent complaint that I started to get over and over again, and I admit that I struggled to give these patients an answer. I can’t tell…
