Hear from Michelle Routhenstein, MS, RD, on the importance of nutrition on heart health and heart disease prevention.

YMyHealth sits down with the CEO of ALYKA Health, Dr. Ali Rahimi, to discuss heart health for millennials.

Learn how to be an advocate for yourself as a patient and help your doctor from Dr. Jessica Gray.

Dr. Jennifer Gray explains the dangers of self-diagnosis on the internet.

We speak with Dr. Jessica Gray about how to advocate for yourself at the doctor.

The mental and physical health benefits of sauna therapy and risks.

YMyHealth asked fellow millennial and infectious disease doctor, Lindsay Morrison, MD, MSCI, how we can navigate this ‘tripledemic’ of the flu, COVID-19, and what seems like a new player on the scene for adults this winter, Respiratory Syncytial Virus.

As millennials, we don’t often think of things like long-term care or having to make end-of-life decisions. That is, unless you are one of the more than 10 million of us who find ourselves being a caregiver to a loved one.

Imagine if on top of your busy life there was another entire life that you had to deal with. Only this other life isn’t easily seen or understood by other people. This other life is having a chronic illness.

It’s that time of year when the air turns crisp, the leaves begin to fall, and seasonal influenza or “flu” once again becomes widespread in the places we work, live, and socialize with our friends. Given the recent epidemics of COVID-19 and Monkeypox, the approaching annual flu season may have slipped your mind.

Natter, an endocrinologist and fellow millennial, treats patients whose endocrine systems (our body’s system of glands that produce and release hormones) have gone awry in different ways.

What’s it like to be young, healthy, and invincible, and suddenly diagnosed with thyroid cancer or another condition? Dr. Mike Natter answers our thyroid cancer questions.

For better or for worse, our healthcare system is almost as complex a system as our bodies, which is why it is so crucial that you be your own advocate at the doctor’s office. No one knows what ails you better than you do!

YMyHealth speaks with fellow millennial and infectious disease specialist, Lindsay Morrison, MD, MSCI to learn what communities are at risk, how this virus differs from COVID-19, and what precautions we should when traveling this summer.

To truly understand why millennials are increasingly impacted by a disease that we have the ability to detect early, we must know what is befalling patients and healthcare providers along the way to a diagnosis and more importantly, in preventing the disease all together.

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words “colorectal cancer”? For some in their 20s, 30s, or early 40s, the response is: “that’s an old man’s disease.” Not anymore.

Spotlight on cholesterol and millennials: How can you be proactive about this important part of heart health?

What happens to your family members does not have to be your destiny too. To have a chance at better heart health, knowing your family’s health history shouldn’t be the exception. It should be the rule.

In recognition of American Heart Month, we talked with fellow millennial Nicole Harkin, MD, a board-certified cardiologist and internist, about heart health.

As Jason Phillips, LCWS, tells us, there is a lot millennials can look back on and be proud of in navigating these challenging times. The lessons we’ve learned in the long run may actually give us a greater ability to shape the life and career we have been searching for.