Will a Probiotic Cure Your Yeast Infection?
Conventional medicine says probiotics are not proven. The wellness aisle sells them as the cure. The honest read sits between them. A probiotic will not clear an active yeast infection; the antifungal does that work. Here is what the evidence actually supports, when a probiotic earns a small role, and the question almost nobody asks first: is it even yeast?
Your Gut Shifts in Perimenopause. Your Heart Listens.
Your gut and your heart can both feel different in your forties, even when your labs read normal. As estrogen declines, the gut genuinely shifts, and researchers are asking whether that shift is one thread tying perimenopause to heart risk. Here is what the science supports, what it doesn't yet, and the food-first moves with real human data.