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Understanding the Vaginal Microbiome and Vaginal Health With Priyanka Jain

Published: Sept. 20, 2023, 9 a.m.

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Episode Highlights With Priyanka

  • How her own health journey led to her helping women with health using her background in the data world\\xa0
  • 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\\xa0
  • The reason the vagina is meant to be acidic\\xa0
  • 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\\xa0
  • 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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