8. Your OB-GYN Should Look Deeper Than Your Vagina w/ Felice Gersh

When many of us visit our OB-GYN we essentially hand over control
to our doctor. It doesn't have to be this way! Now more than
ever, we are realizing the important role that we have to play in
managing our own health. Your doctors can still be a part of
this, but truly taking ownership of your own healing is essential
to thriving. That’s why I’ve brought in an amazing doctor to talk
about how to build the right patient-doctor relationships.


Today, I have Dr. Felice Gersh with me. She is a double
Board-Certified OB/GYN and integrative medicine practitioner and
the founder and director of the Integrative Medical Group of
Irvine, California. Dr. Gersh really is remarkable having been
awarded Orange County Medical Association’s ‘Physician of the
Year’ Award for the last 13 years consecutively, and Southern
California’s ‘SuperDoctor’ Award for the last several
years. 


We cover a lot of important topics in this conversation,
including creating the ideal relationship with your gynecologist
that places you at the center of your healing process. This
involves knowing the right questions to ask and which labs and
scans will be the most useful in the end.


We also discuss how many of the procedures we undergo and the
medicines we take to prevent disease can actually make us sicker.
They can cause unneeded stress and inflammation that can lead to
just the very complications that we were trying to avoid in the
first place. This is why it’s so crucial that both you and your
doctor have the best information available. 


How would you define your relationship with your OB-GYN? Tell me
how it’s going in the comments!
  In this episode

How to create the perfect OB-GYN relationship with you as
your healer and the doctor as the facilitator

The undeniable link between your emotional health and
physical health

The ideal labs and scans to ask for when trying to get to the
root causes of your symptoms

Why auto-immune diseases are on the rise and what you can do
to protect yourself from them

The role, limitations, and risks of vaccines, mammograms, and
other preventative medicines and treatments



 
Quotes

“I am only there in the room with my patients for such a tiny
blip of their life, so what I have to do is to spark the fire to
get them to really make healthy choices all the times when I’m
not there with them.” [4:48]


“We cast a broad net to look at what the total status of the body
is. Then based on what we find, we can hone in on what really
needs more attention.” [20:26]


“We now know that your emotions have such an impact on your
health. So I keep wondering if we’re promoting breast cancer by
creating a chronic stress state in women who have mammographies
where we keep having them come back repeated views.” [42:55]


“The bottom line is every woman really needs informed consent and
to decide for herself if she would feel more comfortable having
the mammogram or actually more comfortable not.” [46:08]


 
Links

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