Sexual Health – WholeHealth Chicago

Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement Plans

If you’re a WholeHealth Chicago patient, you’ve likely noticed that we review your list of nutritional supplements during each appointment. Conventional doctors ask what prescription meds you’re taking (and of course we do too), but virtually never solicit a list of supplements. Since our area of expertise lies precisely there, it’s important for us to […]

107 CommentsMay 31, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Allergies & Food Sensitivities, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Bone Health, Cardiovascular Health, Depression, Digestion, Diseases, Environmental Sensitivities, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Fitness & Exercise, Health Insurance Issues, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Men's Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Respiratory Health, Sexual Health, Stress, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, Top 20 blogs of 2020, Weight Issues, Women's HealthTagged anti-aging, brian supplements, cardiovascular health, detox, hormone supplementation, immune system support, intravenous therapies, men's health, nutritional supplements, supplements, supplements for brain, vitamin supplements, Women's Health

Menopause Hell? Quell The Fire With Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)

When it’s time, you can expect to transition through menopause in one of three ways. If you’re unlucky enough to land in Menopause Hell, give some serious thought to bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT). Some women experience Menopause Heaven, in which your periods start changing and then stop without drama. A year goes by without […]

2 CommentsMay 23, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Bone Health, Cardiovascular Health, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, M, Sexual Health, Top 20 blogs of 2020, Women's HealthTagged BHRT, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, hormone balancing, hormone replacement therapies, menopause, Women's Health

Commonly Overlooked Diagnoses: The Subtleties of PMS

Several women’s health websites place the number of symptoms attributable to premenstrual syndrome (PMS) at 150. I personally think that’s an undercount. I really began to appreciate this some years ago when a young woman came to see me with recurring hives. Out of the blue, she’d awaken from sleep covered in large red itchy […]

177 CommentsMarch 15, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, C, Healthy Lifestyle, Knowledge Base, Sexual Health, Top 20 blogs of 2020, Women's HealthTagged menstratio, Menstrual, migraines, pain, PMS, Reproductive health, Women's Health

Do You Have Low Testosterone?

For 80 (!) years physicians have prescribed testosterone to men without being certain if it actually had any effect…other than raising testosterone levels. The only FDA-approved indication for testosterone is hypogonadism, in which there’s an actual disorder of the male reproductive system that results in the body not producing enough testosterone. Causes of hypogonadism include […]

3 CommentsJuly 5, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Functional Telemedicine, Wherever You Are

All things considered, we’ve rather enjoyed our telemedicine interactions with patients. Doctoring this way also recently provided me with an Aha! moment. What I realized was that much of what we do as Functional Medicine specialists, both diagnosis and treatment, can be done online with you never leaving your home. Such a consultation would include […]

11 CommentsMay 11, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Allergies & Food Sensitivities, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Bone Health, Candida (yeast) and Parasites, Cardiovascular Health, Chiropractic & Physical Medicine, Diseases, Environmental Sensitivities, F, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Health Insurance Issues, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Men's Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Pain Management, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, Weight Issues, Women's HealthTagged adrenal fatigue, amino acids, B12 deficienct, biotoxin, Candida, chemical sensitivities, chronic fatigue, chronic symptoms, digestion, distance medicine, fatigue, fibromyalgia, food sensitivities, heavy metal, hormone imbalance, hormones, hypothyroid, hypothyroidism, leaky gut, lyme, mold, mold biotoxin, organic acids, parasites, SIBO, small intestine bacterial overgrowth, Telehealth, telehealthcare, telemedicine, vitamin D

When Your Sex Drive is on Life Support

Low desire? No more orgasms? Is your sexual enjoyment a nonexistent priority in your partnership? Sex is such a physical/emotional chore that you’d rather be burning the calories in a Pilates class? Part of our intake questionnaire at WholeHealth Chicago asks if you’re satisfied with your sex life and fully half of our newcomers either […]

22 CommentsFebruary 17, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Blog, Healthy Lifestyle, Knowledge Base, Men's Health, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, W, Women's HealthTagged erectile dysfunction, libido, sex, sex drive, sex life, Sexual health, sexuality, viagra

Infertility Issues? Start With The Guy

I’ve lost track of the number of couples we treat at WholeHealth Chicago who are involved in one of the hormone injection/surgical procedure stops on the conveyor belt of infertility centers. Currently, it’s estimated that 15 to 20 percent of couples are struggling with infertility, half of them due to male factors. The infertility docs […]

2 CommentsJanuary 19, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Alternative Therapies, Blog, Healthy Lifestyle, I, Knowledge Base, Men's Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone IssuesTagged essential fatty acids, fatty acids, fish oil, infertility, male infertility, omega

Issues with Endocrinologists: Thyroid Approaches and Big Pharma

My beefs with endocrinologists pretty much center on how they manage thyroid gland concerns, though they rarely win prizes for managing adrenal issues either. I don’t know any endocrinologists personally and rarely refer my patients to them. Occasionally, a patient with newly diagnosed hypothyroidism (low thyroid) will want to confirm the diagnosis with an endocrinologist. […]

12 CommentsJanuary 13, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Alternative Therapies, Big Pharma Evils, Blog, Cardiovascular Health, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, M, Men's Health, Mental Health, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, Women's HealthTagged fatigue, Hashimoto's thyroiditis, hashimotos, natural thyroid, synthroid, thyroid

Your Body Keeps Score

This may be an emotionally difficult Health Tip for some of you. Imagine you’re a small child and for as long as you can remember, no one’s face has ever lit up with a smile when you walked into a room. In fact, to avoid being struck by a family member, you’ve learned a variety […]

5 CommentsSeptember 9, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Mental Health, Pain Management, Sexual Health, YTagged biograohy, biographical health care, child abues, childhood trauma, chronic pain, stress, trauma, trauma sensitivity

When Your Female Sex Drive Is Circling The Drain

I don’t mean to catch you mid-croissant on this topic, but it may have recently dawned on you that your sex drive is not what it was when you were younger. In fact, when you think about it, maybe you never had much of a sex drive at all, no matter which of your decades […]

3 CommentsJuly 22, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine, Aging, Blog, Healthy Lifestyle, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Sexual Health, W, Women's HealthTagged libido, low libido, sex, Sexual health, sexual performance

Male Menopause: Is It Real?

Short answer: Yes, but don’t hope for any quick fixes—that’s pharmaceutical industry-think. Another way to view male menopause: Sure, a ball will bounce, just not as high over time. I get asked about male menopause all the time, almost always by women (who, admittedly, represent the majority of my patients) and only rarely by my […]

1 CommentJune 17, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Blog, Fitness & Exercise, Healthy Lifestyle, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, M, Men's Health, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone IssuesTagged aging, anti-aging, libido, low libido, men's health, testosterone

A Lifetime Of Experience With Abortion

The past two years of a Trump administration have produced an ugly upsurge in controversy over women’s rights, from the serial sexual predation revelations of the #MeToo movement to yet another state following the lead of the 25 white male Republicans (for their photos, click here) who voted to ban abortion in Alabama and send […]

May 27, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in A, Blog, Health Insurance Issues, Knowledge Base, Mental Health, Sexual Health, Women's HealthTagged Abortion, Health Politics, Women's Health

The Neurochemistry of the Blasey Ford-Kavanaugh Hearings

Over the years here at WholeHealth Chicago, we’ve treated thousands of patients, mainly women, for chronic physical and emotional symptoms that produce no positive test results. Our patients have been told by multiple doctors that nothing can be found wrong with them, but as we explore their biographies we find that many problems have roots […]

23 CommentsOctober 1, 2018 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Disappointments With Testosterone

For 80 (!) years physicians have prescribed testosterone to men without being certain if it actually had any effect other than raising testosterone levels. The only FDA-approved indication for testosterone is pathological hypogonadism, in which there’s an actual disorder of the male reproductive system that results in the body not producing enough testosterone. Examples are testicular […]

January 22, 2018 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Blog, D, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Men's Health, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone IssuesTagged testosterone

Functional Medicine 101 + Introducing Dr. Alaina Gemelas

Functional Medicine is without a doubt the fastest growing medical specialty of the 21st century. Public interest in it and public acceptance of it continues to please me. Every day I hear the sentence, “I made this appointment because I wanted a functional approach.” When I ask patients how they learned about it, the answer […]

5 CommentsNovember 13, 2017 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Alternative Therapies, Blog, Candida (yeast) and Parasites, Cardiovascular Health, Diseases, Environmental Sensitivities, F, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Fitness & Exercise, Health Insurance Issues, Healthy Lifestyle, Knowledge Base, Men's Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, Weight Issues, Women's Health

Disappointments With Testosterone

For 80 (!) years physicians have prescribed testosterone to men without being certain if it actually had any effect other than raising testosterone levels. The only FDA-approved indication for testosterone is pathological hypogonadism, in which there’s an actual disorder of the male reproductive system that results in the body not producing enough testosterone. Examples are […]

12 CommentsMarch 6, 2017 by WholeHealth Chicago

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A Lifetime Of Experience With Abortion

Let me start by saying the opinions on the topic of abortion are mine alone and not necessarily those of any staff at WholeHealth Chicago. For Health Tip readers who have commented that I should not voice political opinions and stick to my work as a doctor, I suggest you glance at any of the […]

6,291 CommentsFebruary 13, 2017 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in A, Blog, Knowledge Base, Most comments, Most Viewed, Sexual Health, Women's HealthTagged Abortion, Individualized Healthcare, Reproductive health, Women's Health

WTF Happened To My Sex Drive?

I don’t mean to catch you mid-croissant on this topic, but I want to report the latest research on a woman’s libido and its relationship to her masturbation activities. If you’re a woman in your mid-40s or older, partnered or not, straight or gay, you may have noticed something about your sex drive you’re not […]

14 CommentsDecember 7, 2014 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Blog, Knowledge Base, S, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, W, Women's HealthTagged DHEA, estrogen, FSH, hormones, LH, sex drive, SWAN study, testosterone

DIY Sex Drive Enhancement for Women

I suspect men have wanted to control female sexuality since the dawn of time. Certainly aphrodisiacs (named after Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love and desire) appear in the medical writings of ancient Greece, and in Chinese medicine the perfect combination of acupuncture and herbs is supposed to work wonders. Ayurvedic practitioners have suspected that chiropractic […]

June 3, 2013 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, D, Knowledge Base, S, Sexual Health, Women's HealthTagged aphrodisiacs, libido, Lybrido, sex drive, ssri

Reversing the Potbelly of Male Menopause

This health tip begins with a mildly off-color story. If you’re offended by such things, please skip to paragraph three. During the 1920s and 30s the epicenter of New York City’s intellect and wit was the café at the Algonquin Hotel, with the famed Algonquin Round Table hosting luminaries Dorothy Parker, Alexander Woollcott, and Robert […]

July 30, 2012 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Knowledge Base, M, Men's Health, Sexual HealthTagged decrease muscle mass, depression, lack of sex drive, low energy, low libido, male menopause, mental fogginess, potbelly, testosterone, weight gain