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Got Gas & Bloating — Even While Eating Super Healthy? These Expert Tips May Help

by Ellen Vora, MD on Aug 29, 2019 / Share

Originally published in mindbodygreen

To help support your digestion, there’s nothing more important than starting the day with a tall glass of filtered or spring water before you eat anything. This is the best way to prompt your body to have a thorough bowel movement and start the day with a calm stomach.

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Why You Should Prioritize Family Dinner + Easy Tips To Make The Most Of It

by Ellen Vora, MD on Aug 27, 2019 / Share

Originally published in mindbodygreen

Sometimes family dinner is simply impossible. Life happens. But when you can manage to prioritize family dinner, it can do a lot of good. It slows us down. It makes us calmer parents, which makes for calmer kids. And it helps us model mindful eating for our kids. It also creates a communal cap to the day, which is a very grounding ritual.

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Stress And Anxiety Are Serious

by Ellen Vora, MD on Aug 26, 2019 / Share

Originally published in Well + Good

We’re in an epidemic of burnout. And there’s a silent shame to this. We think to ourselves: Everyone is under a lot of stress, but everyone else seems to be coping. If I’m burned out, maybe I’m worse than other people.

To the contrary, so many of us are burning through our capacity to cope, and many people are silently and secretly burned out. Rather than suffer in silence, we should all be talking about this.

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9 Food & Health Pros Share Their Best Tips For Saving $$$ On Healthy Food

by Ellen Vora, MD on Aug 23, 2019 / Share

Originally published in mindbodygreen

Save money

My tip is actually to spend money on a TaskRabbit. In our household we are two working parents with a toddler and a Tetris game of logistics. By spending money on hiring a TaskRabbit to help us chop and cook, we end up saving money in the long term. This is because it saves so much time we actually have time to cook, and this enables us to eat home-cooked food all week. So we don’t order takeout anymore. Spending ~$30 a week on a TaskRabbit actually saves us money and allows us to eat healthy home-cooked food.

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My #1 Sleep Tip

by Ellen Vora, MD on Aug 22, 2019 / Share

This one seems hard to do, but it’s really not. And once you do it, you never look back. Here’s to better sleep!

Perimenopause Marks The Official ‘Decline’ Of Fertility – But Experts Say It Can Be A New Beginning, Too

by Ellen Vora, MD on Aug 21, 2019 / Share

Originally published in Well + Good

Perimenopause

Fertility represents a lot more than just being able to have kids. Fertility is part of how many people define themselves as women. Indeed, having one’s period is often considered to be a crucial passage into womanhood; once that starts to go away, some people might struggle with what it means to be feminine.

Similarly, many people go into perimenopause at the same time that their children are getting older and moving out, which is its own adjustment. The combination leads many to think about what their purpose is in life, which can shift as their children don’t need them as much.

Western culture doesn’t celebrate aging, which can further complicate a person’s relationship with perimenopause. Fertility is also linked to sex and libido… Our culture has this weird way of only celebrating young, nubile femininity, and it does not celebrate or empower women of all life stages.

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Small Changes Big Shifts Podcast

by Ellen Vora, MD on Aug 20, 2019 / Share

Small Changes Big Shifts Podcast

I was recently interviewed by Dr. Michelle Robin on the Small Changes Big Shifts podcast. We discuss what small steps we can make today for big shifts in our physical, mental, and emotional health. 

I share my advice on the importance of building a community in a comfortable environment, the difference between episodic depression and chronic depression plus specific wellness tips for expecting and new mothers.

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The Easy Food Hack That Could Keep Your Stress Levels In Check

by Ellen Vora, MD on Aug 16, 2019 / Share

Originally published in Well + Good

Food Hack

These days, we go into a stress response too readily, and one of the things that puts the body into a stress response is a blood sugar crash. So many of us are walking around hangry, and if you really start to track your anxiety and panic symptoms, they’re usually around the time when you’re going through a blood sugar crash.

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How To Be A Better Friend

by Ellen Vora, MD on Aug 15, 2019 / Share

We could all use a refresher on how to be better listeners, and how to hold space when our friends are struggling.

What Our Anxiety Is Telling Us – GOOP Podcast

by Ellen Vora, MD on Aug 13, 2019 / Share

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I was honored to sit down with GOOP and be featured on the goopPodcast to discuss what our anxiety is telling us.

GOOP Podcast

We’re just not taught these days to feel our feelings. Symptoms such as anxiety and depression, hormone and gut issues are our really beautiful, brilliant body’s way of communicating to us. To communicate back, I focus on food, sleep, stress, and other lifestyle changes.

I meet patients where they are; I work with people who are on antidepressants and who are tapering off of SSRIs. My most important work is not fixing a problem but helping to hold space for the full human experience.

GOOP Podcast

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Dr. Vora takes a functional medicine approach to mental health–considering the whole person and addressing the problem at the root, rather than reflexively prescribing medication to suppress symptoms.

She specializes in depression, anxiety, insomnia, adult ADHD, bipolar and digestive issues.

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