I recently delved into the bowels of coffee enemas. I knew that Gwyneth Paltrow and GOOP were happy to shill for Big Wellness and sell over-priced, harmful coffee enema kits and of course there are many "integrative" doctors firmly on the groundless coffee enemabandwagon, but honestly I really thought coffee enemas were something people spoke …
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It seems January is Gwyneth Paltrow's go-to month for promoting dangerous things that should not go in or near an orifice. January 2016 brought us vagina steaming, January 2017 brought us jade eggs, and here we are in the early days of January 2018 and goop.com is hawking coffee enemas and promoting colonic irrigation. I suspect …
In 2014 I was an invited speaker at the International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS). My first day there I attended the session on research. I was excited to hear what Dr. Khalid Khan, the editor of The British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology,had to say about writing a good paper. An editor's take on what gets published, …
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As today is World Aids Day I feel it is appropriate to point out that Gwyneth Paltrow and her crack team at GOOP are featuring Dr. Kelly Brogan, an AIDS denialist, as one of their medical experts at In GOOP Health 2018 in New York City. In 2014, so when HIV was well-known to be …
I was recently sent YET ANOTHER puff piece on the “O shot®.” For those of you fortunate enough not to have space in your brain taken up rent free by the “O shot®” it is an injection of platelet rich plasma (PRP) into the vagina and clitoris that claims to bring rocking orgasms to women. Honestly, …
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There are three statues of Dr. James Marion Sims on public display in the United States. Dr. Sims is known to some as the father of modern American gynecology for reportedly developing the first successful and reproducible surgical technique for vesicovaginal fistulas and for opening the first public hospital for women dedicated to repairing inuries …
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Gwyneth Paltrow recently claimed her detractors don’t do their homework and are afraid of empowered woman. She stated: "The difficulty is that you're suggesting that people have autonomy over their health and some people love that and some people are like, 'fuck you, just write me a prescription.'" she says of "challenging medicine as it …
Perhaps you have heard of the latest “natural” birthing trend called a "lotus birth"? This practice involves leaving the newborn attached to the placenta until the umbilical cord separates “naturally” or, to be blunt about it, rots off. Let’s get two sets of basic facts established before we continue: The placenta receives its oxygenated blood from …
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A few months ago GOOP rolled out their line of physician approved supplements. The very best supplements curated by experts direct to you for only $90 for one month's supply or if you sign up for a monthly delivery only $75 a month. The health claims that GOOP makes about these supplements were recently labelled deceptive …
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Marie Claire published a total bullsh*t article today on how the solar eclipse probably messed with your menstrual cycle. The doctors they reached out to did not feel they could offer an opinion. Undaunted Marie Claire asked some women who felt they had more PMS (personal experience is not science), an "integrative nutrition specialist," and …
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Dr. Jen Gunter 