Episodes
She's Not Pregnant.
"Long-term health-related quality of life and symptom severity following hysterectomy, myomectomy or uterine artery embolization for the treatmnt of symptomatic uterine fibroids." Let's be proactive. Let's commit to women's h...
Don't Get It Twisted
There is a time to bleed. And there comes a time when all bleeding should stop. Postmenopausal bleeding is not normal.
Just Know - You're Awesome
They may laugh at you. They may call you names. They may abuse you. And then they will try to emulate you.
Pap Smear Not Needed?
According the American Cancer Society, paps are no longer the preferred test for cervical cancer screening. The American Cancer Society Guidelines for the Prevention and Early Detection of Cervical Cancer include high risk HP...
Change your GrimAge
Epigenetics states that your environment and your behaviours affect your DNA. Epigenetic changes can be measured and used to predict your mortality. Do you want to know your GrimAge? If you could change your GrimAge, would yo...
Menstrual/ Menopause Workplace Policy
You work hard.. but then there's that time of the month. You work hard.. but you can't admit to your follow colleagues that you're having perimenopausal symptoms. Imagine if your employer had a workplace policy to accommodate...
Kegel your way to Sexual Pleasure
Kegel your way to sexual pleasure. Learn what and learn how. It's wholistic, no side effects - a preventive health practice with huge benefits.
How to Survive as a Caregiver
Meet Dr. Cheryl Woodson . Dr. Woodson has taught and practiced Geriatric medicine for nearly 40 years. She has developed resources focusing on eldercare and self-care for caregivers. These resources are designed to guide fami...
Don't be a Guinea Pig
There has been a change. Previously pregnant women and women of childbearing age were excluded from clinical research trials. Today women of all ages and persons of color are being recruited for clinical research studies. One...
What Every Woman Needs to Know
The common complaints is that women "just don't know". Just don't know their anatomy, how it functions, what is normal and more importantly what is abnormal? We're going back to the basics. Nothing is complicated. This aspect...
Dr. Farrington: How to ACTT with your MD, Part 2
Dr. Leslie Farrington is the co-founder and executive director of Black Coalition for Safe Motherhood . In Part I, she tells her story of being Black but looking White and how she has experienced racism. In this interview she...
Why Thank Female Olympians
This time, half of the Olympians were female. This year, for the first time, females began addressing their reproductive issues and needs. Wow. Not something to hide - when ackowledged, needs can be addressed. No woman has t...
What's down there? - The Vulvar Challenge
Prepuce, Clitoris, Labia Majora, Labia Minora, Urethra, Vagina, Perineum - part of the external female genitalia. External female genitalia has been under-researched, under-examined, under-evaluated: usually ignored. Many fem...
Dr. Leslie Farrington - Born Black, Looking White
Dr. Leslie Farrington is an accomplished OBGYN. She is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Black Coalition for Safe Motherhood, Inc . She has dedicated her life's work maternal health racial disparities and promoting pat...
Black Farm Tour
First weekend in August - Black Farm Tour in Rocky Mount, NC. Men and women, Black men and Black women cycling for a cause: trianglebikeworks.org
Back to Basics - What's Inside?
Recent reports and surveys show that women of all ages say they don't have a good understanding of her reproductive anatomy and function. There are questions. Questions about menarche. Questions about periods. Questions about...
What's Lurking in Your Tampons? Ask Dr Shearston
What's lurking in your tampons. In a conversation with Dr. Rahman, Dr. Jenni Shearston discusses the unsettling findings of her ground breaking study of the presence of toxic metals in tampons . She shares her preliminary res...
Remembering Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee
Remembering her story, her advocacy.. never underestimate a Black woman.
How do we learn about our reproductive health?
There are critical gaps in women's understanding our her reproductive from menarche to menopause. Where are we to get our sex/reproductive information. Who should be teaching women about themselves. Dr. Rahman opens her podca...
Dissecting Racism in Medicine: An Eye-Opening Interview with Dr. Layal Liverpool
Dive into a candid conversation with Dr. Layal Liverpool as she discusses her newly released book, "Systemic: How Racism is Making Us Ill" . We explore the insidious presence of racism in the medical field. From patient treat...
Could This Drug Make Menopause Optional?
Dr. Rahman dives into the exciting research on rapamycin, a drug that could revolutionize how we approach aging and menopause. This episode covers a pioneering study on rapamycin and its potential to delay menopause and slow ...
What's in your Prenatal Vitamins?
A recent study, Commercially Available Prenatal Vitamins Do Not Meet American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Nutritional Guidelines sampled non prescription prenatal vitamins. None of the sampled prenatal vitamins...
MePeriod with Ms. Lisa Cunningham
Meet the award winning film director and advocate for Black women's health. As the interim EVP of Black Women's Health Imperative founded by Byllye Avery, Ms Cunningham has directed MePeriod which explores puberty, menstruati...