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    Why Sleep Matters

    Scientists have discovered a revolutionary new treatment that makes you live longer.  It enhances your memory and makes you more creative.  It makes you look more attractive.  It keeps you slim and lowers food cravings.  It protects you from cancer and dementia.  It wards off colds and the flu.  It lowers your risk of heart attacks and stroke, not to mention diabetes.  You’ll even feel happier, less depressed, and less anxious. –Matt Walker, Why We Sleep Sounds too good to be true, doesn’t it?  But if even half of these claims were attached to a celebrity product on TikTok, it would be a bestseller.  The honest truth is that all…

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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…