Understanding the Vaginal Microbiome and Vaginal Health With Priyanka Jain

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 Resources We Mention Evvy Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Perez