Just came across this wonderful review from the sweet home of the best menstrual cups available. Their eco-friendliness and money saving virtue is what leads most people to choose them but as your health practitioner I highly recommend them for other reasons! When tampons are used they not only absorb menstrual fluid but also the [...]
Wait...what? Gluten Remove Beer? What does that mean? My inquiring mind wanted to know and what I've found out has me concerned for anyone suffering an immune-mediated reaction to gluten (Celiac Disease). Like lactose-added Lacteeze milk, brewers have simply added an enzyme targeted at the breakdown of the gluten/gliadin molecule to beer made from gluten [...]
Herbal Infusions with a little sweetening from maple syrup or honey is a great way to introduce both nutrients and gentle, effective medicine. Most are easy to prepare with 1 tsp dried/1tbsp fresh herbs per cup of hot water. Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis) Good for general tummy aches, is relaxing and hot water extracts have [...]
The health and health care needs of LGBTQ2+ persons are affected by a number of social, behavioural, and structural factors including deep-rooted stigma and discrimination and health insurance policy. A limited body of literature documents a number of health issues that disproportionately affect sexual minorities including mental health issues, substance use, and tobacco use. From [...]
It is not hard to find the negative bias towards females in medicine. Diagnoses such as Cervical INCOMPETENCE, FAILURE to progress (in labour), Premature Ovarian FAILURE, and others. Yet, what is failure to achieve penile engorgement deemed? ED: a "dysfunction". There is also the undervaluing of patient instinct, routine complete hysterectomies (which if called [...]
