Sex and gender differences are central to our lives. We all think about them, struggle with them, and seek to better understand them. From Professor Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady who lamented “Why can’t a woman be more like a man”; to Sigmund Freud who wondered “What do women really want?”; to our nursery
According to the American Academy of Pain Medicine, pain affects more Americans than diabetes, heart disease and cancer combined. The chart below depicts the number of chronic pain sufferers compared to other major health conditions. Condition Number of Sufferers Source Chronic Pain 100 million Americans Institute of Medicine of The National Academies Diabetes 25.8 million
“Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” This quote is often attributed to Benjamin Franklin since it appeared in his Poor Richard’s Almanack, though the idea was likely around much earlier. Most of us could use some help with our health, our money-flow, and our wisdom. There are
Being a health-care professional offers no guarantee that I know how to lose weight and keep it off. In fact, I’ll confess that for most of my life I’ve done a pretty lousy job of it. When I was in medical school, there were no courses on health and nutrition. In fact, most everything
We can reprogram our unconscious mind to guide us away from fear towards the love that we all desire. The bad news is that our unconscious mind is powerful and easily sabotages us when we reach out to love. It often keeps us from finding a partner (that’s why dating sites have become so popular)
Long before anyone had heard of the field of “gender medicine” I was on a search to find answers to the question, “why do men die sooner and live sicker?” I was five years old when my father tried to commit suicide. He had, what I was told was, a “nervous breakdown.” I didn’t know
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