Woman's Health

If you’ve been prescribed estrogen vaginal inserts for vaginal dryness or recurrent post-menopausal bladder infections and read the accompanying paperwork you might, as many women do, toss the box away, muttering, “not for me”. There’s a “black box warning” printed there, alerting you that using the product increases your risk of blood clots, breast cancer, […]

A recent report revealed the enormous impact of PCOS hidden symptoms, with diagnosis and lifetime treatments costing the U.S. around $8 billion a year. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects up to 20% of reproductive-age women—yet most remain undiagnosed for years. If you have PCOS, obviously you’re not alone. It’s estimated that PCOS affects one woman in […]

“Exhaustion is my reality. At four o’clock, I’m wiped, totally wiped.”  Patricia is forty-three, happily married as far as marriages go, one kid, steadily employed in the usual American less-than-satisfying corporate job, good eating habits, and, until recently, health club a few times a week. Now she’s too tired for that. By appearance, she’s dragging. […]

“Dare I Say It”, is subtitled, “Everything I Wish I’d Known About Menopause”. Being female has never been a walk in the park for Ms. Watts. She was last in her class to have her first period at eighteen, needed the guidance of Cosmopolitan Magazine and Sidney Sheldon novels (anyone remember those?) to learn the […]

The uptick in “brain fog” as a complaint among new (and many returning) patients at WholeHealth Chicago offices really began with the COVID pandemic. As the numbers were being collected, first nationally, then globally, that one out of five people who had experienced COVID also had “long COVID,” with “brain fog” as a major long […]