Episode Highlights With Priyanka
- How her own health journey led to her helping women with health using her background in the data world
- Why were women not included in clinical research until 1993, and why are women diagnosed years later than men for the same conditions
- How to actually make the best use of data that we now have access to
- Vaginal discomfort is the leading reason women seek medical help in the US
- At any given moment, 30% of women have some form of vaginal dysbiosis
- The reason the vagina is meant to be acidic
- What her data set on the vaginal microbiome is showing and what we can learn from it
- The most common vaginal dysbiosis and what we can learn from it
- 84% of people with vaginal dysbiosis have no symptoms and get no treatment
- 66% of people who have a yeast infection actually have something else
- The role sex plays in the vaginal microbiome
- What boric acid is and the real data on the research here
- Do vaginal probiotics work? And what to know about them
- How vaginal health affects fertility, pregnancy, and birth and what to know to optimize this
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