By Dr. Ashley Chauvin ND A common side effect of chemotherapy and radiation is cancer related fatigue (CRF). 58% to 94% of patients with breast cancer experience CRF during treatment, and between 56% and 95% have CRF after they receive adjuvant chemotherapy (1). This...
Starting at the age of 30, your muscle mass declines at a rate of 3-8% each decade. As you get older, the rate of muscle mass loss gets even faster, clocking in at 5-10% lost each decade after 50 years of age. This means that your lean body mass at age 70 will be8-12...
A 50-year-old woman walks into a doctor’s office and is assessed for cardiovascular disease. Can you think about the kinds of questions that we should be asking her? We’re probably asking her about her exercise and nutrition, about symptoms that she may be...
When women think about their transition into menopause, they often assume their hormones either have some slow decline into their fifth decade, or the hormonal carpet gets aggressively ripped out from underneath them on one horrible day. Neither visualizations are...
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is a chronic, autoimmune disease characterized by the destructionof the insulin-producing beta cells in the pancreas. T1D is often diagnosed in childhoodand results in a lifelong need for insulin. Celiac disease (CD), like T1D, is also an...
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