If you’re old enough to remember Mr. Rogers, you might remember him singing the happy little song, “So, who are the people in your neighborhood, in your neighborhood, in your neighborhood… they’re the people that you meet when you’re walking down the street. They’re the people that you meet each day.” This isn’t Mr. Rogers’ […]
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This isn’t what I intended to write about; in fact, I’m in the middle of a series on the gut. However, the series has been derailed briefly, because I have been derailed, I hope briefly, by one mother of a headache. Three times in my life, I’ve been in so much pain that I have […]
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Ever had a gut feeling? Felt butterflies in your stomach? Maybe gotten a little crampy or needed to make an emergency trip to the bathroom during times of stress? Now, let’s look at this from the other end, so to speak: Maybe you’ve been feeling anxious or depressed. Maybe you feel bad, and you don’t […]
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You asked for it, and you got it! A nice lady at church told me, “My husband has heartburn and keeps hoping it will go away. He won’t go to the doctor, and he doesn’t know anything about what he should do. He needs very basic information.” So, this is part of an occasional series […]
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Think infertility and the picture that comes to mind is usually some poor woman hopped up on a regimen of hormones, getting one or more rounds of expensive in-vitro fertilization (IVF), and hoping desperately that it will take. But sometimes, when a couple wants to have a baby and can’t, the problem is not with […]
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I lied in the headline. A prostate biopsy is not actually fun. But if you need one – if your PSA has gone up more than 0.4 ng/ml a year, or if your doctor has felt something suspicious, like a hard spot on the prostate during the rectal exam – then you need one, so here […]
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If you are a man of African American descent – or a woman who loves him — I hope you read this. You are in the group that is hit the hardest by prostate cancer of all men in the world. When you look at the men at highest risk of getting prostate cancer, one […]
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Can Your Gut Bacteria Make You Depressed?
If you’re old enough to remember Mr. Rogers, you might remember him singing the happy little song, “So, who are the people in your neighborhood, in your neighborhood, in your neighborhood… they’re the people that you meet when you’re walking down the street. They’re the people that you meet each day.” This isn’t Mr. Rogers’ […]
How To Cure a Headache
This isn’t what I intended to write about; in fact, I’m in the middle of a series on the gut. However, the series has been derailed briefly, because I have been derailed, I hope briefly, by one mother of a headache. Three times in my life, I’ve been in so much pain that I have […]
What You Eat and How You Feel
Ever had a gut feeling? Felt butterflies in your stomach? Maybe gotten a little crampy or needed to make an emergency trip to the bathroom during times of stress? Now, let’s look at this from the other end, so to speak: Maybe you’ve been feeling anxious or depressed. Maybe you feel bad, and you don’t […]
Feeling the Burn? What Causes Heartburn in Men?
You asked for it, and you got it! A nice lady at church told me, “My husband has heartburn and keeps hoping it will go away. He won’t go to the doctor, and he doesn’t know anything about what he should do. He needs very basic information.” So, this is part of an occasional series […]
There is New Hope for Male Infertility
Think infertility and the picture that comes to mind is usually some poor woman hopped up on a regimen of hormones, getting one or more rounds of expensive in-vitro fertilization (IVF), and hoping desperately that it will take. But sometimes, when a couple wants to have a baby and can’t, the problem is not with […]
Prostate Biopsy Fun Facts! Also, Why Cancer Can be Missed in African American Men, and a Word about the Bacteria in your Rear End
I lied in the headline. A prostate biopsy is not actually fun. But if you need one – if your PSA has gone up more than 0.4 ng/ml a year, or if your doctor has felt something suspicious, like a hard spot on the prostate during the rectal exam – then you need one, so here […]
Prostate Cancer is More Aggressive in African American Men
If you are a man of African American descent – or a woman who loves him — I hope you read this. You are in the group that is hit the hardest by prostate cancer of all men in the world. When you look at the men at highest risk of getting prostate cancer, one […]