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Hormones & Women's Health
Straightforward answers about the hormonal shifts nobody prepared you for. Perimenopause, PCOS, and the parts of women's health that get dismissed everywhere else get taken seriously here.
The Period Is Not The Point
Wondering if you might be in perimenopause? Our symptom checker can help answer this question! https://www.presencemd.net/menopausecalc The official medical definition of menopause is twelve consecutive months without a period. It is tidy. It is also completely useless if you have an IUD, a hysterectomy, an endometrial ablation, or years of hormonal birth control behind you. A significant number of women fall into exactly this category. They spend years wondering what is ha
Torree McGowan
Jun 305 min read
The Lab Test Lie Wellness Influencers Are Selling You
Annie drunk at the vet You are standing in a barn at 6am, wrapping legs, hauling hay, running on coffee and sheer determination, and somewhere between classes you found a reel that told you to get your cortisol checked, your DUTCH test done, your vitamin D optimized, your hormones mapped, and your adrenal function evaluated. The reel had 400,000 likes and a very pretty graphic. The woman in it had a medical title that sounded official. Here is what she did not tell you: mos
Torree McGowan
Jun 168 min read
PCOS Has a New Name. Here's What It Means for You.
If you've ever been told you don't have PCOS because your ultrasound looked fine — keep reading. After eleven years, 22,000 survey responses, and a landmark paper in The Lancet, polycystic ovary syndrome has officially been renamed polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome — PMOS. More than 50 medical organizations worldwide, including the Endocrine Society, signed on. This isn't a rebranding. It's a correction. The Old Name Was Getting Women Missed PCOS was named for one fe
Torree McGowan
May 133 min read
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