PCOS: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome. It does seem to fall on the spectrum, whereby sometimes it involves insulin and other times, it is really an adrenal problem. Here's a typical PCOS story...
Fertility Over Forty: Are women having babies later in life? Yes indeed. In Europe, percentage of births to moms over 40 has increased from 1.6-3% since the late 1980s. In the US, 2.6% of births are to women over 40. In fact over 40 women are the...
Written by: Ed Yong for the New Yorker, July 22, 2016 The Foods for Health Institute, at the University of California, Davis, has the appearance of a Tuscan villa, its terra-cotta-walled buildings overlooking a large vineyard and a garden that bursts with summer vegetables. It is led...
Rob Knight is a pioneer in studying human microbes, the community of tiny single-cell organisms living inside our bodies that have a huge — and largely unexplored — role in our health. “The three pounds of microbes that you carry around with you might be...
During pregnancy, a woman is likely to gain more weight if she is having a boy. The full article from the NYTimes can be viewed here: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/12/18/weight-gain-during-pregnancy-is-especially-good-for-boys/?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&bicmp=AD&bicmlukp=WT.mc_id&bicmst=1409232722000&bicmet=1419773522000&_r=1 The less weight a woman gains during pregnancy, the less likely she is to have a boy, an analysis of...