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Gum Health and Its Surprising Connection to Heart Disease

When it comes to heart health, most people think of cholesterol, blood pressure, and even genetics. What rarely ever comes up? The gums. But here's the thing that many people do not know about gum health: how healthy or unhealthy your gums are can actually have a pretty big influence on how healthy or unhealthy…

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Menopause: 5 Things To Know

Menopause. The word alone can bring on emotions of fear, sadness, and anxiety. That is understandable when the list of symptoms is long and can include things like hot flushes up to 50 times a day; erratic and unpredictable vaginal bleeding; weight gain; loss of muscle mass; anxiety and depression; acne; brain fog; difficulty sleeping;…

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Risky Business: Getting To The Core

I got into an argument with a guy recently concerning the reasons why it feels so disorienting to do a somersault when you get older. I know, I’m “that” dinner party guest. He claimed it had to do with the aging process of your ears and the crystals that inhabit the ear canal. I agreed…

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Why Every Woman Needs 12 Boyfriends

I encountered my first research subject, Billy Chumbers, in first grade. Our experiments were quite literally puppy love – I remember zooming around his living room with a sock in my mouth, pretending to be a dog carrying a pup. However, I thought of him quite seriously, and describedhim to everyone as my first boyfriend.