The Wellness Clinic

Family Medicine

Higher vitamin D levels linked to improved mental health 07/10/2024

“Adults with lower levels of vitamin D had more depressive symptoms. Further, adults with depression had significantly lower intake of vitamin D than adults without depression.”

In addition, higher serum vitamin D levels were connected to improved physical functioning.

Higher vitamin D levels linked to improved mental health CHICAGO — Vitamin D levels may be associated with mental health — particularly, depressive symptoms, according to research presented at the annual NUTRITION meeting.“We know that vitamin D is an essential nutrient for the body,” Jacqueline A. Vernarelli, PhD, the director of....

About us. And by us, I mean me. 07/08/2024

Pam is an amazing entrepreneur
She makes all her own products

About us. And by us, I mean me. Hi there! I'm Pam Rodgers and I am a nerd. Card Carrying. My extensive selection of nerd t-shirts and my Doctor Who/Harry Potter Funko! Pop collection attests to this. I am also a tom boy who does not enjoy dressing up. I have been sciencing since I could science. Yes, I loved watching My Little Pon...

05/13/2024

Forgot reading glasses?
No problem! We have them.

05/10/2024

Best car battery value in the area is…

Home Depot

Three years free replacement, not prorated
$130
Caps are removable for service – batteries last longer if the cells stay full.

On this one, all six cells were low. Note meniscus on the left cell, flat surface on the right.

03/11/2024

NEW OFFICE PHONE NUMBERS
Main 423.531.5556
Fax 423.713.0047
After hours 423.693.3038

8:00 AM to 3:00 PM
Monday through Thursday

'Where Have My Or***ms Gone?' S*x Medicine and Older Women 03/02/2024

...our 80- and 90-year-old patients were in their 20s and 30s in the 1960s. You can bet some of them were pretty groovy! A Swedish study of septuagenarians revealed a shift in s*xual attitudes: from 5% of 70-year-old women in the 1970s citing s*x as a positive aspect of life, to 78% in 2000.

82% of 97-year-old female participants felt that being asked about their s*xuality in healthcare settings was positive.

'Where Have My Or***ms Gone?' S*x Medicine and Older Women Satisfying s*xual engagement can be important for the general well-being and overall health of older women.

03/02/2024

HRT is the most effective treatment for menopausal symptoms, including hot flashes, night sweats, insomnia, vaginal dryness, heart palpitations, joint pain, and loss of s*xual desire—symptoms that can last an average of seven years.

There is no current way to prevent or reduce the risk of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia—except estrogen.

Seven times as many women die of heart disease as die of breast cancer annually, and HRT can decrease that risk by 30 to 50 percent. After age 50, a woman’s risk of dying of heart disease is much greater than her risk of dying of breast cancer.

As many women die annually following osteoporotic hip fracture as die of breast cancer, and HRT can cut this risk in half.

Women taking HRT live, on average, three to four years longer than those not taking it.

There is no evidence to support the current medical advice to take HRT at the lowest dose for the shortest period of time.

Most studies have found that estrogen does not increase the risk of breast cancer, and it can often be given safely even to women who have had breast cancer.

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02/22/2024

Then meniscus in all six cells
Took 10 ounces of distilled water

Batteries last much longer when they are maintained

02/22/2024

No meniscus

02/21/2024

We do piercings with anesthesia

02/16/2024

Dr. Peggy Brooks no longer practices at 4513 Hixson Pike, Suite 102.

Pending a new land line #, we may be contacted via the patient cell phone:

423.693.3038 Texting preferred

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Redefine what "real s*x" is! - Joan Price 11/24/2023

https://joanprice.com/tip/redefine-what-real-s*x-is

Redefining can be very healthy

Redefine what "real s*x" is! - Joan Price What is "real s*x"? Is s*x a goal (doing it in a certain way) or do you view s*x as pleasure? As we age, our definition might change.

Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer 10/09/2023

The early 1990s, researchers had 50 years of evidence of estrogen’s benefits, all of it well documented in the medical literature. Estrogen not only successfully controls menopausal symptoms, in most women, but also significantly reduces the risk of heart disease, hip fractures, colon cancer, and Alzheimer’s. A 1991 editorial about post menopausal estrogen, Stated this is time for action, not debate. It reported a 40 to 50% reduction in heart disease, which was responsible for the deaths of more than eight times as many women as breast cancer. A US C study reported a 35% decrease in the risk of Alzheimer’s. Among women with no history of breast cancer, studies found that estrogen did not increase the risk of developing it, even among women who had been taking estrogen for 10 to 15 years.

Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer

Telegraph: Trans guidance for teachers was wrong, says watchdog | Mumsnet 09/17/2023

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4897717-telegraph-trans-guidance-for-teachers-was-wrong-says-watchdog?

Mr Boo also admitted that the EHRC’s own official guidance, in place for almost a decade, had been wrong to tell teachers that they would automatically be guilty of anti-trans discrimination if they referred to a “previously female pupil” as a girl. He said the regulator was urgently correcting “inaccuracies” in its “technical guidance” on the application of the Equality Act in schools."

The original Telegraph article is behind a pay wall

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4897717-telegraph-trans-guidance-for-teachers-was-wrong-says-watchdog

Telegraph: Trans guidance for teachers was wrong, says watchdog | Mumsnet Story in the Telegraph, which says that the EHRC has written to S*x Matters to say their 2014 guidance had things wrong with it: https://www.telegrap...

06/19/2023

https://estrogenmatters.com/

More good HRT info

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05/15/2023

May 6th at the public library in Chattanooga we'll be sponsoring an LGBTQ+ teen mental health workshop!! Please come on out and join us there will be a series of free expressive arts workshops offered this spring in support of teen mental health for LGBTQ+ students, and friends or allies ages 13-18!

the sign up form is right here:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfKxx5aCJhuwJ2KJZUvyQfl3PmCr683ijp_bCvoiS82ftfVUQ/viewform

Transgender and non-binary people are up to six times more likely to have autism 03/29/2023

... it felt like I was failing constantly, and, like, I just couldn't do it. And there was some kind of internal brokenness about me.

Transgender and non-binary people are up to six times more likely to have autism Transgender and non-binary people are up to six times more likely to also have autism. This intersection has researchers trying to understand the connection and how society views these identities.

Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer 03/17/2023

"This is such an important book, I want to do all I can to encourage every woman to read it. Groundbreaking and carefully researched, Estrogen Matters provides essential information about the many benefits of estrogen at menopause and even after a diagnosis of breast cancer. It reveals the misinterpretation of study results that led women (and their doctors) to have unwarranted concerns about estrogen use. The thoughtful information presented here will help women feel more comfortable taking estrogen, leading to healthier, longer lives for many." - Patricia T. Kelly, PhD,

Estrogen Matters: Why Taking Hormones in Menopause Can Improve Women's Well-Being and Lengthen Their Lives -- Without Raising the Risk of Breast Cancer

Psychiatric Illnesses Share Common Brain Network 03/05/2023

A network of neural connections is linked to six psychiatric disorders: schizophrenia, bipolar disorder (BD), depression, addiction, obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and anxiety, new research shows.

Moreover, lesion damage to this network in patients with penetrating head trauma correlated with the number of psychiatric illnesses that the patients were diagnosed with post trauma.

Psychiatric Illnesses Share Common Brain Network A network of neural connections is linked to six psychiatric disorders, including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and depression, new research suggests.

This Cartilage Piercing Has Almost Zero Aftercare | Macro Beauty | Refinery29 03/04/2023

We pierce anything
WITH ANESTHESIA!

This Cartilage Piercing Has Almost Zero Aftercare | Macro Beauty | Refinery29 On this episode of Macro Beauty, we head to Body Electric Tattoo in L.A. Despite having what she thought were keloid scars our guest heads to Body Electric T...

Radiowave surgery for skin lesion removal 03/04/2023

Radiosurgery gives cosmetic results equal to laser

Radiowave surgery for skin lesion removal

Vitamin D: Vitamin or Hormone? 02/20/2023

Both

I require 10,000 units to keep my level above 50. That's 0.25 mg.

Vitamin D: Vitamin or Hormone? Is Vitamin D a nutrient or could it treat many of our health issues? Vitamin D stands out from all other nutraceuticals because it is one of the very few

I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle. 02/09/2023

Almost everyone in my life advised me to keep my head down. But I cannot in good conscience do so. Because what is happening to scores of children is far more important than my comfort. And what is happening to them is morally and medically appalling.

I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle. There are more than 100 pediatric gender clinics across the U.S. I worked at one. What’s happening to children is morally and medically appalling.

01/21/2023

2023 will bring changes, but the The Wellness Clinic will continue to provide great primary care into this new year! Peggy Sue Brooks, MD, will be the incoming physician to continue the practice looking forward to being full time at the clinic by mid March!

Testosterone: Strong Enough For A Man, Made For A Woman 12/16/2022

"Clinical studies show that testosterone therapy reduces the risk of breast cancer by 50 to 75 percent and relieves virtually all symptoms of menopause with no adverse effects.
You read that correctly. The benefits of implementing testosterone into hormone replacement therapy are virtually unprecedented, and yet the larger medical community continues to ignore the facts."

Testosterone: Strong Enough For A Man, Made For A Woman Testosterone: Strong Enough For A Man, Made For A Woman

A Lasting Legacy of COVID: Far-Right Platforms Spreading Health Myths 11/24/2022

Around the country, countless Americans are suffering a very particular type of COVID-19 grief — a mixture of anger, sorrow and shame that comes with losing a loved one who has consumed social media falsehoods.

A Lasting Legacy of COVID: Far-Right Platforms Spreading Health Myths WASHINGTON — Not long after Randy Watt died of COVID-19, his daughter Danielle sat down at her computer, searching for clues as to why the smart and thoughtful man she knew had refused to get vaccinated. She pulled up Google, typed in a screen name he had used in the past and discovered a secret t...

Meta-analysis: Testosterone treatment not linked to short-, medium-term CV events in men 06/10/2022

https://www.healio.com/news/cardiology/20220609/metaanalysis-testosterone-treatment-not-linked-to-short-mediumterm-cv-events-in-men?utm_source=selligent&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=news&M_BT=234258831100

Testosterone treatment not linked to short-, medium-term CV events in men

Meta-analysis: Testosterone treatment not linked to short-, medium-term CV events in men In men with hypogonadism, there was no evidence that testosterone treatments cause short-term or medium-term CV risks, according to a meta-analysis published in The Lancet Healthy Longevity. There were not enough data to conclude anything about the relationship between testosterone treatments and lo...

Patients who switch to buprenorphine see improvements in pain, quality of life 11/09/2021

“In patients who do proceed with buprenorphine, most state they wish they had started therapy much earlier.”

Patients who switch to buprenorphine see improvements in pain, quality of life Patients who switched to buprenorphine after using opioids to treat their chronic pain reported significant improvements in pain and quality of life, according to a retrospective analysis that was conducted at a pain management clinic. “Patients are referred to [our] clinic by their primary ca...

Researchers uncover the role of estrogen in exercise 10/23/2021

A small, recent study seems to show that women in menopause may become sedentary as a side effect of reduced estrogen levels. When estrogen levels are raised, normal activity levels seem to resume. Exercise and activity is one of the leading predictors of longer life.

Researchers uncover the role of estrogen in exercise Experts in s*x as a biological variable are uncovering the role of estrogen in exercise. The researchers will present their findings virtually at the American Physiological Society's (APS) New Trends in S*x and Gender Medicine conference.

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