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209. “The Cervix is Dumb” and I Disagree – April Live

You Are Not Broken

Kelly Casperson, MD

Medicine, Health & Fitness

5743 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2023

⏱️ 22 minutes

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“The Cervix is Dumb” and I Disagree – April Live   Giovannetti O, Tomalty D, Gilmore S, Pattison A, Komisaruk B, Goldstein S, Hannan J, Goldstein I, Pukall C, Adams MA. The contribution of the cervix to sexual response: an online survey study. J Sex Med. 2023 Jan 14;20(1):49-56. doi: 10.1093/jsxmed/qdac010   Cochrane review on Cranberry for UTI https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD001321.pub6/full   Kisspeptin is a protein that is essential for reproductive hormone secretion and fertility Male kisspeptin study https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36735255/   Sexual Tipping Point https://www.researchgate.net/publication/24001856_The_Sexual_Tipping_PointR_A_MindBody_Model_for_Sexual_Medicine   Oral versus Vaginal DHEA Vaginal DHEA is awesome – it is a prescription DHEA oral is a supplement – over the counter   - DHEA oral safety - lack of efficacy good enough reason to not take it?   Dehydroepiandrosterone replacement in women with adrenal insufficiency N Engl J Med 1999 Sep 30;341(14):1013-20.  doi: 10.1056/NEJM199909303411401. 50mg oral for 4 months – decreased HDL and total Cholesterol Conclusions: Dehydroepiandrosterone improves well-being and sexuality in women with adrenal insufficiency. Double-blind treatment of major depression with dehydroepiandrosterone Am J Psychiatry 1999 Apr;156(4):646-9. doi: 10.1176/ajp.156.4.646. Conclusions: These results suggest that DHEA treatment may have significant antidepressant effects in some patients with major depression. Further, larger-scale trials are warranted.   Did you get the You Are Not Broken Book Yet? https://amzn.to/3p18DfK   Join my membership to get these episodes ASAP when they are created and without advertisement and even listen live to the interviews and episodes. www.kellycaspersonmd.com/membership --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kj-casperson/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You are listening to You Are Not Broken, the only podcast that combines science, medicine, and psychology to re-educate your brain and help you live your best love life.

0:11.4

And I'm your host, board certified female urologist, Dr. Kelly Casperson.

0:16.7

Hey, everybody, it's Kelly. Welcome. This is my April Live podcast recording. Coming to you live from Chicago, USA. I flew in yesterday because I'm going to the 2023 American Urologic Association Urology Conference. Apparently, I don't know the exact date, but apparently there's like 10,000 urologists

0:38.0

that go to this. It just seems like, and I don't know where I'm going. There's no like paper anymore,

0:42.8

so I don't know when the things are. I feel like I'm like being thrown into the middle of like

0:47.4

academic Disneyland without a map. So I'm just going to go wander downstairs at some point

0:53.3

and see where, see what I can figure out.

0:56.2

Basically, when you're mid-career, like, it's kind of just like social hour at this point.

1:00.5

You just want to see all the friends that you have that don't live in the same city as you.

1:04.3

So that's mostly what I'm looking forward to.

1:06.2

If I get enough, like, juicy tidbits, I'll do a podcast live from the AUA, like, what's new?

1:14.9

If I show up to enough things, we'll see what happens. But today is my live podcast members

1:20.3

get to come on, ask questions. So if you're not a member yet, come and check it out. There's

1:24.7

hours and hours of video on sex ed, mindset, lifestyle,

1:29.5

to go a little bit deeper with me and to be able to ask live questions on these monthly

1:34.5

lives as well. Get coached. Live your best life. Drinking coffee on the 24th floor of the

1:42.4

Marriott, I think I am in, in Chicago right now.

1:45.8

So the first thing I wanted to talk about is the cervix, because why not start a podcast with the cervix?

1:54.0

I was in a Facebook group. There's a doctor Facebook group, and somebody was asking, like, should they get their cervix removed,

2:01.3

when they get their hysterectomy, pros and cons, what's standard?

2:04.9

Something like that.

2:06.2

And one of the surgeons had typed in literally, like, the cervix is dumb.

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