Dr. Lori Gore-Green | Women's Health Professional

Dr. Lori Gore-Green's Portfolio of Experience as a Women's Health Professional

The Benefits of Walking in Older Women

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The human body is designed to walk, and this most basic human activity can significantly impact your health throughout life. Scientific research supports the benefits of walking in several ways, so it should be on the list as part of every older woman’s health regime to maintain suitable physical, emotional and mental health.

Walking Helps To Maintain Healthy Weight

A daily walk can help you maintain a healthy weight, so you can avoid many of the health problems related to carrying those extra pounds.

Walking Helps to Strengthen Bones

The action and pressure of walking help strengthen bones, reducing the risk for osteoporosis and osteoarthritis, which are common problems in the older population.

Walking Can Lower Blood Pressure

A good walk can also help to relax blood vessels, which will lower your blood pressure in some individuals.

Walking Reduce Your Risk For Heart Disease, Diabetes, and Colon Cancer

Walking helps to keep blood vessels flexible to carry blood and nutrients throughout the body. This improved circulation can help you to avoid cardiovascular disease and other health problems.

Walking Keeps Joints Flexible

Your walking exercise helps to keep your joints supple and healthy. Walking strengthens the muscles that support joints to experience less pressure that can cause damage to the internal joint structures.

Walking Improves Balance and Coordination

Walking requires coordinated movement and balance as you shift your weight. These are essential skills that will help you to avoid dangerous falls that often occur in older individuals.

Walking Improves Your Energy Level

A body in motion tends to remain in action, and you will find a good, daily walk gives you more energy for other tasks throughout the day.

Walking Improves Your Mood

The action of walking gets you outdoors, moving around, seeing what’s going on in the neighborhood, and encountering neighbors and acquaintances along the way, which helps to stimulate the production of “feel-good” brain chemicals that keep you in a better mood.

Health experts recommend at least 30 minutes of walking per day to enjoy this natural exercise’s benefits. Whether you choose to break up your walking workout into smaller periods or extend it out, you will feel better, look better, and enjoy life more.

Improving Your Sex Drive After Childbirth

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A lot of women struggle with a diminishing sex drive after they’ve given birth. This usually is completely normal as their body has just gone through quite a few changes in a short period of time. Intimacy is an important part of a relationship, and many women are looking for ways to improve their sex life. Here are some ways that women can increase their sex drive after childbirth.

 

Use Lubrication

Some women struggle with lubrication after giving birth. They may also find that their vagina and vulva are inflamed and more sensitive. Using lubrication can make sex feel more comfortable. It can also improve a women’s sex drive as she won’t feel so apprehensive about the possibility of sex feeling painful.

 

Set A Date

A couple’s life changes dramatically once they bring a new child into the world. Because of this, it can be difficult to even think about having sex. Couples often forget about the needs of their partner as they are so focused on their new baby. Women can increase their sex drive by setting a date to have sex. This will help them to remember to make sex a priority.

 

Talk To Your Partner

Many women feel quite overwhelmed when they have an infant. With so much to do for the baby and the household, they may feel as if sex is just another chore that they have to do. If they are feeling this way, they need to talk to their partner about it. She should come up with ways that they can pitch in so that she doesn’t feel so overwhelmed with everything. By having a partner that helps take care of the needs of the baby and the household, a woman may feel inclined to have sex more often.

 

If you are struggling with your sex drive after childbirth, you aren’t alone. Be kind to yourself about it as your body just brought a new life into this world! If you are wanting to try to increase your sex drive, try some of the tips mentioned above. It might also be helpful to seek the advice of your doctor. They can help you determine if there is an underlying cause behind your low sex drive.

Top Podcasts About Women’s Health

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Every woman desires to live a happy life full of health. Knowing how to do all that relates to her health is a chief factor in achieving primary objectives. Lilia G Ashe devotes her resources to provide the necessary information that women need to live healthy lives. Providing up-to-date materials to educate the mothers on balancing their lives has always been her pleasure. The following are some of the podcasts that she covers in her topics.

 

  1. The V Word

 

The V-word is a show that two renowned gynecologists, Jennifer Contri, MD, MS, MSc (Dr. Jenn), and Erica P host aiming to coach women on their health. The podcast comes loaded with sensitive topics ranging from birth control, masturbation, and sex, among many others. The hosts go the extra mile to adopt conversations on lesbians as well as health matters revolving around transwomen.

 

  1. Feel Good Podcast

 

The show seeks to nourish women in numerous aspects. They include nutrition, spiritual matters, yoga, and beauty, among many others. Kimberly Snyder, a reputable author in the New York Times, is responsible for hosting the incredible podcast. The show inspires women to remain confident with their inner and outer beauty. Modern experts in health issues make the show interactive with their interviews.

 

The Q&A Thursday is one of the most adored episodes as listeners can ask questions. The hosting team provides detailed answers to the questions, from which women benefit incredibly.

 

  1. Balanced Black Girl

 

The show features Lestraundra Alfred, who is an expert in nutrition matters as the host. The podcast aims at creating a platform for women to interact and have candid conversations regarding numerous issues. Such include self-love, personal care, and anything else that involves their wellbeing.

 

  1. Women Seeking Wellness

 

The podcast targets any woman who is looking for ways to improve her health and wellness. The show’s host is Chiropractor, featuring Dr. Stephanie Maj, a specialist in health issues. The episode inspires women in understanding their bodies and observing practices that enhance their health.

 

Every podcast that aims at helping women in any way is a crucial investment that they should all appreciate. The interactive shows have played a significant role in improving the lives of women in society.

New Predictors for Gestational Diabetes

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Dr. Lori Gore-GreenEarlier this month, Diabetes Care published a prospective cohort study that suggests that women who have high levels of abdominal fat (or abdominal adiposity) during their first trimester are at a greater  risk for developing diabetes later on in their pregnancy.

The study was limited to 485 women who were assessed for subcutaneous, visceral, and total adipose tissue depth with ultrasound between 11 and 14 weeks of gestation.

All of the subjects were between the ages of 18 and 42 years old, and the results accounted for confounding factors like; age, family history, ethnicity, BMI and more. Even with these factors addressed, researchers still found that women with higher levels of fat in their abdomens were likelier to develop diabetes between weeks twenty four to twenty eight of their pregnancy than their counterparts with less abdominal fat early on in pregnancy. To learn more about gestational diabetes, please see the video below:

Rural Areas Suffer Drop in OB/GYN Recruitment

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Dr. Lori Gore-GreenTraveling for healthcare services may be common for patients living in remote areas, but the difficulties accessing quality OB/GYN services has a direct link with an increased death rate among new mothers and their babies.

The face of the healthcare industry has been steadily changing over the last 30 years. As world-class tertiary hospitals pay doctors bigger salaries and buy out surrounding practices to stay afloat, the number of rural hospitals providing specialized services has dropped significantly. This is particularly the case with quality OB/GYN care — between 1985 and 2000, rural hospitals providing these services dropped by 23%, and that trend shows no sign of slowing down.

It has become notoriously difficult to recruit obstetricians and gynecologists to rural and remote areas. Smaller pay is only one of the barriers facing OB/GYN doctors considering the move — the lifestyle change is another. Getting accustomed to a small-town life isn’t necessarily easy for doctors who have grown up and studied in a suburban or urban environment.

Some hospitals are incentivizing the deal by offering new doctors things like student loan forgiveness, extra vacation time, and shortened work weeks. Mercy Medical Center, which serves the northern Iowa and southern Minnesota areas, is even offering a guaranteed income loan for the first year, which will then be forgiven after three years of service.

Only time will tell whether this trend really takes off. In the meantime, small rural hospitals are doing their best to partner up with clinicians in different specialities so they can continue to offer the right combination of skills to their patients. This works for about two-thirds of pregnancies who only need the kind of support offered in a rural clinic, but the other third require a more advanced care setting with emergency services.