Today is the day🔥Our new podcast Wellness: Fact Vs Fiction has dropped & it was only appropriate to bring on the evidence based QUEEN of debunking Women’s health misinfo - @DrJenGunter
@DrJenGunter has been called Twitter’s resident gynecologist and the internet’s OB/GYN and knows a thing or two about the misinformation rabbit hole having nearly become victim to medical lies herself after her own child’s diagnosis.
So we are on a mission to fix the medical internet and demystify women’s health by sharing the facts backed by science. @DrJenGunter is the author of The NY Times instant best sellers The Vagina Bible and The Menopause Manifesto.
She’s a brilliant OBGYN, pain specialist, and fierce advocate for Women’s health.
Her blog, The Vajenda, is packed full of bias-free content about sex, social media and science with a healthy dose of humor and feminism.
Myths and misconceptions discussed in this podcast include:
🔎Peeing after sex, UTIs and yeast infections
🔎Feminine products including the swizzle stick, wipes, and organic tampons
🔎PCOS, seed cycling and birth control pills
🔎Vaccines and infertility
Wellness has been unwell. @DrJenGunter debunks the latest Women’s health myths and predatory products- including the “swizzle stick”
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The wellness space is filled with endless anecdotes, hypothesis & “mechanistic based medicine” driven by pseudoscience gurus who are often physicians, scientists & RDs. After the ep of our podcast w/ @DrJenGunter I’ve received many messages from women abt our debunks⬇️
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One “hot” myth right now in Women’s health and wellness that @DrJenGunter debunked, is called “Seed Cycling”. Seed cycling is a growing trend claimed to balance hormones, boost fertility, and ease symptoms of menopause.
SO proud of my friend @RealDoctorMike who dropped his cholesterol over 50 mg/dL in just *5 weeks* by following my favorite 3 high yield tips for eating a more plant predominant diet!
You can check out our discussion, and see his amazing results here! ⬇️
My favorite 3 high yield tips for lowering cholesterol via diet:
1. Drop your saturated fat intake. This can be through decreasing red meat, butter, high fat dairy, high saturated fat/sugary processed foods.
Swap with foods higher in polyunsaturated fat instead
2. Bump up your fiber intake! Fiber comes from plants - so focusing on fiber rich foods can help lower your cholesterol. And don’t forget some of our highest fiber foods are protein packed too (legumes!)
Shared this case a few months ago & given the amount of vaccine misinformation out there - I think it’s worth re sharing.
38 y/o patient presented with fatigue, 7 weeks s/p COVID +. *Before vax was available
(Shared with patient permission)
This patient has no pmhx
He experienced a mild case of COVID 7 weeks prior, with some sniffles. Over the following 7 weeks he began to feel more fatigued. He experienced some shortness of breath.
12 lead EKG: P waves marked by red arrows. Sinus rhythm, 3:1 AV conduction, RBBB QRS.
Unclear if the conducted PR interval is short or long (navy arrow options) - likely the longer one. A PVC marked by asterisk conceals retrograde into conduction system & delays next conducted QRS. (H/t @narrowQRS)
Did an exciting interview w/ some incredible people all about COVID vaccines, health misinformation, & we even discussed my passion for veganism (coming on 12 years soon!)❤️
Yes, you can be vegan & pro vaccine.
And… yes I’m not wearing scrubs for the first time in a minute😜
The unfortunate idea that vegans should be anti vaccine is sadly pervasive in the vegan community. Vaccines work, vaccines save lives. And the best activist for animals is one that’s alive and healthy, and cares about humans too.
"Veganism is a philosophy and way of living which seeks to exclude—as far as is possible & practicable—all forms of exploitation of, & cruelty to, animals for food, clothing or any other purpose”
In an imperfect world, being a perfect vegan is NOT possible.
I woke up today to like 500 notifications that Dave Asprey had commented all over my Instagram posts to defend his multi million dollar empire of butter in coffee, selling supplements/detoxes, & his pseudoscience about how LDL doesn’t matter.
I have bro science PRESSED 😅
What’s so funny, is that all of these online “health gurus” are constantly trying to denigrate physicians and say we are all bought by pharma (false), and that our guidelines are BS. Meanwhile they make millions selling alternative therapies & partnering with snake oil companies
But in reality, all they are doing is profiting off of their misinformation - creating more distrust in physicians and evidence based medicine, and making money while they promote pseudoscience and antivax ideologies