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Wellness: Fact vs. Fiction

Danielle Belardo

Nutrition, Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 February 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Join Dr. Danielle Belardo and her expert of the week, OB/GYN, pain medicine physician and best-selling author, Dr. Jen Gunter for a debunking episode about women’s health. Jen has been called Twitter’s resident gynecologist and the internet’s OB/GYN and knows a thing or two about the misinformation rabbit hole nearly becoming victim to medical lies herself after her own child’s diagnosis. Jen and Danielle are on a mission to fix the medical internet and demystify women’s health by sharing the facts backed by science. Jen Gunter is the author of The NY Times instant best sellers The Vagina Bible and The Menopause Manifesto. She is board-certified in OB/GYN in both Canada and the United States, and in pain medicine by the American Board of Pain Medicine and by the American Board of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation. Her blog, The Vajenda, is packed full of bias-free content about sex, social media and science with a healthy dose of humor and feminism. Myths and misconceptions discussed include: Peeing after sex, UTIs and yeast infections Feminine products including the swizzle stick, wipes, and organic tampons PCOS, seed cycling and birth control pills Vaccines and infertility Thank you so much for taking the time to contribute to a generation that values fact over fiction! Be sure to rate, review and follow on your favorite podcast app and let us know which not-so-wellness trend you’d like to hear debunked. Follow your host on Instagram @daniellebelardomd and the podcast @wellnessfactvsfiction. Follow Jen Gunter @drjengunter. Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible. Check out these deals just for you: POLICYGENIUS - Head to policygenius.com to get your free life insurance quotes HELLOFRESH - Go to hellofresh.com/drdanielle16 and use code drdanielle16 for up to 16 free meals AND 3 free gifts! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	There's always a physiological explanation for what's happening to your body.
0:07.9	It's not always the one people want to hear, but there's always an explanation.
0:11.4	And my number one rule of thumb is if someone is selling you a supplement, they are an
0:14.8	unreliable source of medical information.
0:17.0	You should not be following that person.
0:18.9	You can use them as your store or your source of information, but you cannot use them as
0:23.4	both.
0:24.4	If you have a store, they should be done for you.
0:32.2	Welcome to Wellness Fact vs. Fiction.
0:34.8	I'm Dr. Danielle Bullardo, and I'm a cardiologist who loves evidence-based medicine and nutrition
0:39.4	science.
0:40.4	But as a millennial, I've watched endless wellness fads take over social media.
0:44.8	It's my mission to get to the bottom of things by bringing on the top expert physicians
0:48.6	and scientists to help us determine what is fact vs. fiction when it comes to your health.
0:54.4	It's time to leave the pseudoscience behind and become empowered when it comes to our
0:58.4	wellness.
0:59.4	Hi everyone, welcome to today's episode.
1:09.3	I couldn't be more excited about interviewing the one and only Dr. Jennifer Gunter, who
1:15.8	is an OB-GYN and pain medicine physician in California.
1:20.2	She is brilliant, writes a ton about sex science and social media, and essentially is trying
1:28.1	to clean up the misinformation all over the internet about women's health.
1:33.5	Dr. Gunter is my hero, and she's the hero to a lot of women who have been kind of duped
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