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February 28, 2021

Category: Dr. Legato’s Blog

To Drink or Not to Drink …That is The Conundrum!

Thursday, 13 September 2018 by Marianne J. Legato
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In a previous blog article, we wrote about the health benefits of moderate drinking. That article, In Vino Veritas, focused on a large-scale Danish study of over 76,000 participants which found that drinking in moderation could combat diabetes while teetotalers had an increased risk for that disease. The survey looked at factors such as frequency,
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In Honor of Labor Day

Monday, 03 September 2018 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
Like the iconic “Rosie the Riveter,” women showed the world they could weld steel, build munitions and transport cargo during WWII, women of science also came to the fore showing the world the depth of their intellectual capabilities. In honor of Labor Day, The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine would like to pay tribute to the
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Could Your Gut Microbiome Be the Reason You Can’t Lose Weight?

Monday, 27 August 2018 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
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How many of us have gone from one diet to the next in the hopes of losing weight to no avail while friends and family seem to drop the pounds without much ado? Researchers from the Mayo Clinic suspect it may be due to gut bacteria. Gut bacteria or microbiomes are a complex ecosystem of
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How Low Testosterone Impacts Men and…Women

Monday, 13 August 2018 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
How Low Testosterone Impacts Men
We’ve all read or heard the quotes about testosterone—the sex hormone that’s gotten a bad rap socially but is something we can’t live without medically. Testosterone isn’t only important for male health; females need it too, although in much lesser amounts. Belligerence, aggression, heightened energy and intense emotion are all hallmarks of high testosterone levels—but
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Staying Cool When Temperatures Become Deadly

Monday, 06 August 2018 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
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Summertime and the livin’ is easy…and sometimes incredibly hot. As we race toward summer homes, vacation spots or just hang around the City, we have to be mindful that hot temperatures can be very dangerous wherever we are. Heat advisories should be taken seriously especially when high temperatures and humidity can produce heat indices between
Cancer
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Prediabetes: Warning Signs and Preventative Measures

Monday, 30 July 2018 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
Prediabetes Warning Signs and Preventative Measures
According to a 2017 Center for Disease Control (CDC) report, over 30 million Americans have diabetes but nearly triple that amount have prediabetes—84 million and only 10% know they have it. In most cases, prediabetes will morph into diabetes but it doesn’t have to. Prediabetes as its name implies is the stage prior to an
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New Advances in Screening for Colorectal Cancer

Monday, 16 July 2018 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
Screening for Colorectal Cancer
Colorectal Cancer is the second-leading killer in the U.S., and according to the American Cancer Society (ACS), over 140,000 new cases of colorectal cancer will be diagnosed and over 50,000 will die from the disease in 2018. ACS also notes that “Overall, the lifetime risk of developing colorectal cancer is about 1 in 22 (4.49%)
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King George III—Mad as a Hatter or Simply Manic?

Monday, 02 July 2018 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
Mental Illness
As Independence Day approaches, we look back on our nation’s history with awe, inspiration and thankfulness— as well as interest in the British monarch, King George III, who not only lost America but also lost his mind. King George III’s reign lasted 60 years. It was punctuated with bouts of brilliance. The American Revolution was
Mental Illness
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The Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine Announces the Winners of the Robert S. Birch Award

Monday, 25 June 2018 by Marianne J. Legato
Flor C. Navarro, BS, Ph.D & Stephanie K. Watkins PhD
We established a competition for the best original scientific paper accepted for publication in our journal, Gender and the Genome, to encourage the receipt of high quality original studies for publication. The entries were required to have included gender as a variable in their research protocols, thus assessing the relevance of sex and gender to
Cancer
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Summer and Smoke

Thursday, 21 June 2018 by Rose-Marie Brandwein
Summer and smoke
Last summer we wrote about the perils of e-cigarettes and vaping in our blog (E-Cigarettes: When Smoke Gets in Your Eyes) that are marketed to young people who want to be hipsters, not knowing how dangerous the ingredients in e-cigarettes really are. In fact, there has been an ongoing battle among the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), manufacturers and distributors to disclose and label
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