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A women’s health and wellness blog about gynecologic health and common gynecologic concerns and conditions such as sex, contraception, menstrual periods, hormones, uterine fibroids, endometriosis, and PCOS. The latest women’s health research, breaking health news, fascinating facts, curious gynecologic history, current therapies, our guy’s health, fitness, nutrition, weight management, and advanced medical testing discussed by a Board Certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist: Dr. Suzanne Trupin.

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Being calm without smoking

Stopping smoking is a challenge, may require we help, and may have to be tried more than once. But it's sill considered a NEW YEAR and there are even more ways to try to quit than ever! Gums, patches, prescriptions, distractions, are all popular ways to do it, and we won't be getting away from them too soon. And quitting success means that the good things you got from smoking (ok, "good" or the so called Smoker's Paradoxes aren't really 'good', in that they kept you smoking)

Smoking could affect this gland

Often the things we do have wide reaching unintended consequences. As my smokers roll their eyes and hold up their hand in that classic crossing guard stop pose, and try to tell me, don't say another word against smoking, we know we've heard it all. Smoking specifically changes your thyroid function, and to prevent weight gain after you quit (New Year’s Resolution anyone?!) we need to make sure that thyroid levels are normalized. Relatively recently Danish researchers have ju

Read to reset your metabolism do this

Your metabolism will vary with your diet, your activity, your stress levels and your hormones. Medications, herbals, gut inflammation will all affect this. The best way to plan to reset your metabolism is to come in for testing, however, in some young healthy individuals we can do minimal testing before trying to reset your metabolism in this new way of thinking. The average diet has raises insulin, raised blood factors associated with aging and chronic stress including Insul