vitamin D

Why you need more Vitamin D

Social distancing, masks and hand sanitizer only go so far in the fight against Covid-19, not to mention a host of other chronic and lift-threatening conditions. There’s a reason why the department of health in Abu Dhabi earlier this summer urged residents to boost their vitamin D levels — even as the emirate remains one of the few health authorities in the world to be doing so. The recommendation came on the back of a

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endometriosis

Endometriosis: We don’t have to live with pain

Doctors call endometriosis ‘the benign cancer’ yet this painful condition which affects around one in 10 women was barely known in the UAE a decade ago. Treatment was often radical but awareness has spread rapidly through the Emirates Endometriosis League and the message is that no woman needs live in severe pain.

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fertility

Female fertility: ‘Our eggs are as old as we are’

More and more women are putting off having children, so there comes a time when many of them ask a gynecologist for help. In her practice at Primavera Medical Centre in Dubai, Dr Rosalie Sant, a member of the livehealthy.ae expert panel, deals with this issue all the time. We asked her what is going on with our fertility these days – and what we can do to help it along.  Are we leaving it too

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