Affordable Health Care Starts with Taking Better Care of Yourself

On January 30, 2017   /   Women's Health  
Affordable Health Care Starts with Taking Better Care of Yourself

We’ve marched and rallied to support women around the nation and the world to protect our equal rights and the right to make our own personal decisions about our bodies. But are you doing everything you can to care for your own health every day? If you pay for your health insurance or have been treated for an illness, you know that affordable health care is a misnomer. It is all expensive, especially if you get sick. The best affordable health care starts by taking better care of yourself. Starting with Women’s Heart Health Month (February), I will provide practical

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Fearless Fabulous You! Dr. Karin Hehenbeger, Founder, Lyfebulb- 10 Tips for Living with Diabetes

On June 15, 2015   /   Fearless Fabulous You Radio Show, Healthy Living, Inspiring Women  

Living with a chronic illness does not mean your quality of life or your outlook on how you choose to live needs to be compromised. @mightymelanie @lyfebulb #fearlessfabulousyou At age 17 Dr. Karin Hehenberger was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes (T1D). A competitive tennis player and outdoors woman living in Sweden, Karin kept her diagnosis under wraps for 20 years out of fear and shame of living with chronic disease. As she grew older diabetes impacted her body and Karin under went both life saving kidney and pancreas transplants.  Watch Karin’s story here. Her body may have taken a hit but

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A Road Warrior’s Travel Health Tips

On May 22, 2015   /   Fearless Fabulous You Radio Show, Healthy Living  

I’m an adventure traveler. But sometimes the adventure comes with a detour I didn’t plan: getting sick.  I’ve traveled the world and collected some amazing memories and photos for my scrapbooks. But sometimes I picked up a bit more than I wanted. I’ve had a few unplanned trips to doctors’ offices and pharmacies in various locations for an assortment of travel related conditions from food poisoning and many gastro-intestinal ailments to allergies, hives, rashes, nasty bug bites and even (ugh!) worms and scabies. I know! – Too much information! But you can never have to much information when it comes to

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10 Steps for Better Breast Health

On May 15, 2015   /   Breast Cancer, Fearless Fabulous You Radio Show  

This week food media celebrity Sandra Lee shared the news that she has been diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 48.  When any woman receives the news that she has breast cancer it’s a terrible shock. To share the news and say the words “I have breast cancer” out loud for the first time is incredibly painful. I think everyone chokes. I know I did for months. Ms Lee’s specific cancer, DCIS (ductal carcinoma in situ), is relatively common. It’s also considered noninvasive, and can normally be treated with a lumpectomy followed by radiation. After undergoing a lumpectomy, further tests revealed Lee’s margins were not clear

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Fearless Fabulous Second Acts- Jan 12

On January 8, 2015   /   Fearless Fabulous You Radio Show  

My guests January 12 are two women with distinctly different backgrounds who have Second Acts careers, drawing from their first to build their second. Along the way they have navigate their own health Victoria Barghout, Founder, Viver Heath Victoria Barghout, Viver Health Founder, was leading cutting-edge cancer research in the pharmaceutical industry when she was diagnosed with breast cancer the day before her second daughter was born. Reduce Your Risk of Cancer captures her personal action plan of melding modern science and back-to-basics food techniques that enhanced her treatment. By the time of surgery, her aggressive tumor was undetectable. Today,

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