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.

Alexandria Yarborough, PharmD, has been working on the frontlines of healthcare long before the term, ‘frontline healthcare worker’ became popular during the COVID-19 Pandemic.

YMyHealth sits down to talk with the Spark Physiotherapy team to demystify the modality and shed light on its effectiveness.

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.

Summer Dashe always knew she was destined to be a journalist. While most kids do not become what they say they want to be when they grow up, Dashe’s decision was cemented when the foundation of her life was shaken, literally.

Alexandra Ayaub is a podcaster and content creator from Michigan in her 30s, who is also a millennial living with a disability.

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.

When Sasha Greenberg moved to NYC to pursue her modeling career, the constant hustle of city life and a major change in the foods she ate were a lot to get used to. So, she began looking for an easy way to exercise and move her body to stay fit.

Steil was healthy and symptom-free at the time of her diagnosis in 2013. So how did she get diagnosed?

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!

“There is loneliness in the rest of society not understanding that even as COVID fades, we are not the same people as we were a few years ago,” she said, knowing from firsthand experience.

Over time, our culture of overstimulation and societal expectations has increased the number of millennials suffering from anxiety, depression and stress-related illness. Luckily, there is an option for open-minded millennials willing to remedy their mental and physical health with alternative methods.

What makes you feel like you? The pronouns you go by? Your politics? People in your life accommodating your chronic illness in thoughtful ways?

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.

Millennial, combat veteran, and emergency medicine doctor shares how healthcare workers are suffering moral injury, not just burnout.