You are what you eat, and apparently, so is your vagina. Your diet affects pretty much everything from your menstrual cycle to your mood, so eating the best foods for vaginal health can help keep things running smoothly down there. For the ultimate vaginal health-boosting diet, we asked the experts for their favorite foods. Your…
Read moreWhat’s the most common gynecological infection? It’s not yeast. It’s not viral vaginitis. It’s bacterial vaginosis, and it affects approximately 21 million U.S. women—or more than one in 10 of us—each year. Or that’s experts’ best guess; no major health organization has collected information on BV’s prevalence in the U.S. since 2004. Thankfully, the majority…
Read moreAfter my first round of IVF failed, I got Real Damn Serious about preparing for the second. I’d already done months of acupuncture, cut out the God-forbids (sugar, gluten, dairy, GMOs), made green juice each morning, and hefted around a huge pillbox of supplements. But there had to be more I could do. My descents…
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