Women’s Healthcare Blogs
5 Lifestyle Changes To Make In Your 30s For A Healthy Living
The 30s are a time to reevaluate your goals and make life-changing decisions that will impact the rest of your life. We’re not talking about buying a house or...
How Does Pelvic Inflammatory Disease Affect Pregnancy?
Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID) is a condition that affects women of reproductive age. You might have heard of it before, but do you know how it affects...
5 Smart Ways To Avoid Menopausal Weight Gain
For many women, menopause is a roller coaster ride of hot flushes, insomnia, night sweats, mood swings, heightened anxiety, panic attacks, dry and itchy skin...
What Causes Painful Periods & Ways To Avoid It
It's normal to experience minor pains, cramps or discomfort during menstruation. However, if you are experiencing severe pains that cause you to miss out on...
Portland Women’s Health: How To Manage Stress Naturally
A recent report published in the journal Human Reproduction found that women with high salivary alpha-amylase levels were 29% less likely to get pregnant and...
Portland Women’s Health: 2 Things That Could Affect Fertility
Infertility generally means the inability to conceive even after having unprotected sex for one year, but it could also include having stillbirth or...
Let’s Normalize Miscarriages and Child-Loss
The month of October is almost over, and for many of us, it's a month that holds our hearts and grief a little closer than normal. October is Pregnancy and...
How to Track Your Fertility – Pregnancy on Purpose
Sex with the intention of getting pregnant can be confusing, but a clear understanding of how to track your fertility can help a ton. Many women have spent...
An Alternate Thanksgiving Menu – Gluttony Without Guilt
You can go healthy, and still go big this year with this alternate thanksgiving menu - low histamine, low oxalate, paleo, gluten free, and dairy free. Menu...
Effects of Marijuana in Reproduction + Postpartum
Sorry, they’re not good. In the wake of marijuana becoming legal both medically and recreationally, its use and safety within different populations is coming...
BPA Exposure and Its Role in Women’s Health
Plastics are everywhere. In the past half century or so, they have taken many forms and are increasingly more abundant in our daily lives; to the point of us...
Healthy Heart Diets
The tenet, “Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food,” espoused by Hippocrates nearly 2,500 years ago, is receiving renewed interest. Heart related...
Inclusive Care – To Best Serve Everybody and Anybody
Inclusive care, why it is the physicians job to do better…. Just some thoughts At a previous juncture, I worked in a two-doctor clinic that was named after a...
You Need an Air Quality (AQI) App
West Coast Air Quality: Why you need to check it like you check Instagram. Within the past month here in Portland, Oregon, we experienced a...
Herbal Mocktails for Stress Relief
Alcohol and stress often go hand in hand, especially with everything that is going on in our world today! Often, when we are stressed we want to “get a drink”...
A Healthy Thanksgiving – Tips for Over-Indulgence
Tips for adding nutrients to your traditional recipes Thanksgiving is usually the most difficult holiday to be mindful of what you are eating. But indulging...