While mainstream conversations about nutrition often focus on things getting enough protein, calcium, or vitamin D, we don’t hear quite as much about a nutrient that is frequently lacking in…
While mainstream conversations about nutrition often focus on things getting enough protein, calcium, or vitamin D, we don’t hear quite as much about a nutrient that is frequently lacking in…
Vitamin D has caught the public eye as “the sunshine vitamin” over recent years. While it’s been long studied for its benefits to bone health and lifting mood, ongoing research…
These days, women have many different options when it comes to birth control. Forms of hormonal birth control are not only convenient but are also the most effective. In fact,…
Whether you sport braids, dreadlocks, a bob, bangs, an afro, or an updo, you’ve purposefully created your hairstyle and it likely has come to define a significant part of your…
Folic acid (also known as folate) is one of the B-vitamins. You’re probably aware of the recommendation for pregnant women to supplement with it because it helps to prevent birth…
Your pathology report reveals the results of your breast cancer biopsy. These answers may take between one and two weeks to be completed depending on the type of biopsy you…
Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer that affects women in the U.S. (other than skin cancers), but many women do not know why or how to perform…
Let’s take a deep dive into what breast implants – whether placed for cancer or cosmetic reasons – might be doing to the insides of you. Specifically, we want to…
You eat and then you don’t eat – one action predictably follows the other – always. When it comes to optimizing health and eliminating illness, the questions are: (1) how…
When faced with a diagnosis like breast cancer, the Internet is generally the first place women turn for information, resources, and support. But what are the…