Ladies, can pregnancy change your shoe size? Can pregnancy cause your feet to grow? These are two common questions that patients always ask me during their pregnancy.
nytimes.com | Natalie Angier | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living
Be thankful for your brain's supply of oxytocin, the celebrated peptide hormone that helps lubricate our every prosocial exchange that make human soci...
Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
Synthetic progestins are not the same as progesterone, and reporting on them as if they confer the same risks and benefits is absurd.
medicalnewstoday.com | Posted 11.23.2009 | Living
After careful review of countless scientific studies, The Center's Life Sciences group was able to formulate a scientifically verifiable model for the...
Los Angeles Times | Posted 11.16.2009 | Living
Boys born to mothers who have above-normal levels of the controversial chemicals known as phthalates in their urine are less likely to exhibit masculi...
Rebecca Booth, MD | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living
While the attempt to objectify the effects of hormone replacement therapy is admirable, inappropriate interpretations have resulted in unprecedented fear of "all things estrogen."
Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 10.20.2009 | Living
The rBST hormone is injected in about 20% of USA dairy cows to increase milk production. While the industry claims that it's safe for cows, and that the milk is safe for consumers, this is blatantly false.
inc.com | Josh Spiro | Posted 10.20.2009 | Business
If you made your first sale while still in diapers and your lemonade stand was a substantial contributor to the family income, you've likely been call...
Reuters | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) -- The scars of childhood cancer may go beyond the physical: Adults who survived cancer as children may have lower-than-aver...
Linda E. Savage | Posted 10.12.2009 | Living
All cultures govern relationships in various ways, especially sexual relationships. Our culture is particularly bound by fear of sexuality and that fear is translated to individuals from childhood on.
Kathy Plesser, MD | Posted 11.24.2009 | Living
A woman's personal hormonal history -- age of menarche, and menopause, childbearing and breast feeding reflect estrogen exposure can be as important as family history when looking into breast cancer.
Lauren Fornes | Posted 11.23.2009 | Style
Pregnancy and a cross-country move are hard enough, but layer on the stress of launching a new company and I may have aged a decade this summer. One thing is clear: all the stress is taking a toll on my skin.
Rebecca Booth, MD | Posted 11.21.2009 | Living
Menopause is not a disease, but it can put women out of sync with some of the estrogen-enhanced physicality, behaviors and appearances on which they have come to rely.
Kathy Plesser, MD | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
Dr. Hope Rugo describes the randomized clinical trials designed to determine the duration and sequencing of hormones and the different approaches required in pre and post menopausal women.
Irene Rubaum-Keller | Posted 10.19.2009 | Living
Even if you are thin, that week before your period can be challenging. As women, we tend to get bloated and extra hungry 7 to 10 days before our monthly cycle.
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 09.26.2009 | Living
Many claim that melatonin is a natural sleeping aid or nightcap because it "naturally" helps regulate sleep-wake cycles. Given its wide spread availability today, you'd presume it's safe. Is it?
Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green
You may not be familiar with the chemical bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, but there is an excellent chance that BPA is very familiar with you.
Mark Hyman, MD | Posted 08.16.2009 | Living
Are your hormones out of balance? Does your life feel like a song played badly out of tune? If so, the problem may have to do with imbalances in you...
Rebecca Booth, MD | Posted 08.06.2009 | Living
Understanding the hormonal cycle is imperative for maximizing our physical and mental health, and the younger the woman is when she is enlightened, the better off she will be.
Christiane Northrup, MD | Posted 07.19.2009 | Living
Your consciousness is the wellspring of beliefs, behaviors, and emotions that set the stage for your state of health or disease in the first place.
Rebecca Booth, MD | Posted 07.16.2009 | Living
Many women may benefit from hormone therapy. But treatment needs to be supervised by someone who can give women information in a fair and educated manner.
Rebecca Booth, MD | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living
Hormonal aging is one of the least known or discussed causes of wrinkles, dry, and sagging skin.
nytimes.com | Andrew Pollack | Posted 07.02.2009 | Living
Hormone therapy taken by women to counter the effects of menopause can increase the risk of dying from lung cancer, researchers reported here on Satur...
Kent Holtorf | Posted 06.13.2009 | Living
Contemporary medicine has failed to address the obesity epidemic as something more than as simple matter of will power and calorie consumption.
Dr. Michael J. Breus | Posted 05.15.2009 | Living
Melatonin is a hormone your body produces to help it regulate your sleep-wake cycles, but taking additional melatonin in the form of a supplement isn't as good an idea as you might think.
Dr. Steve Rosenberg | Posted 12.03.2009 | Living