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📣 Send me your questions for future Q&As! Click here to write me. ✍ Photo by Coffeefy Workafe on Unsplash The following questions have been lightly edited for length and clarity. Dear Dr. McBride, It seems like every week we hear about a new product category that causes cancer or has some correlation to it. No black plastic, no non-stick, no aluminum antiperspirant, only all natural makeup and skincare, and on and on and on.

BOOK UPDATE👉 Come celebrate with me in DC! During publication week, I’ll be in conversation with my friend Franklin Foer on August 12 at 7 pm at Politics & Prose. Just in! My first official review! "[A] smart debut guide to making informed health decisions... Patients will feel empowered." —Publisher’s Weekly A patient in her sixties told me recently that she’d been losing words. She couldn’t summon the word “colander,” so she called it a sieve.

📣 SURPRISE BONUS: Beyond the Prescription book club sign-ups will stay open till Sunday at midnight! Get the details here ⬇️ 📣 Send me your questions for future Q&As! Click here to write me. ✍️ The following questions have been lightly edited for length and clarity. I’m wondering if you’re getting questions about what I’ll call GLP-1 Lite — meaning someone like me who wants to lose 10 to 15 pounds. I go back-and-forth between 1.

BOOK UPDATE👉 Join me in DC during publication week! I’ll be in conversation with my friend Franklin Foer on August 12 at 7 pm at Politics & Prose. Just in! My first official review from Publisher’s Weekly: "[A] smart debut guide to making informed health decisions... Patients will feel empowered." SURPRISE BONUS: Beyond the Prescription book club sign-ups will stay open for another week! Get the details here ⬇️ I was in LA last weekend, celebrating my wedding anniversary (26 years!).

📣 Beyond the Prescription BOOK CLUB sign-ups close May 31st! 📣 Don’t miss out! You’ve got 48 hours to sign up for the official Beyond the Prescription Book Club this summer! It’s open exclusively to Substack readers and gives you early access to the book, pre-publication. 👀 We’ll get into the nitty gritty of health and wellness and what it all means for YOU. Book Club sign-ups end May 31! LEARN MORE & JOIN! 📣 Send me your questions for future Q&As! Click here to write me.

Who would you want in yours? In conversation: my daughter Stella and her friend Lindsey Do you ever leave the doctor’s office wishing you’d asked something? Or wishing you’d BEEN asked? In my experience, some of the most important health conversations never happen in the exam room. They’re the things you don’t mention—the wine you’ve been leaning on to take the edge off, the parent you’re worried about, the symptom you’re embarrassed to say out loud. The fears. The vulnerabilities.

Playback speed × Share post Share post at current time Share from 0:00 0:00 / Transcript The Silent Killer: What Everyone Should Know About Blood Pressure A conversation with NYU cardiologist Dr. Greg Katz Dr. Lucy McBride sits down again with Dr. Greg Katz, cardiologist at NYU, to tackle the questions patients ask most about blood pressure: what the numbers actually mean, why a single reading in the doctor’s office can mislead, what drives hypertension in the first place, and how to think...

📣 Just a few days left to join the summer Beyond the Prescription BOOK CLUB! 📣 HELLO READERS! Please join me this summer for the official Beyond the Prescription Book Club! It’s open exclusively to Substack readers and gives you early access to the book, pre-publication. 👀 We’ll get into the nitty gritty of health and wellness and what it all means for YOU. Sign-ups are open in May only. LEARN MORE & JOIN! 📣 Send me your questions for future Q&As! Click here to write me.

Specificity could save your life 💌 📣 Join me this Friday 5/22 at 10 am ET for a live conversation about BLOOD PRESSURE & HEART HEALTH with cardiologist Dr. Greg Katz. Bring your questions! Join HERE. A 60-something year old patient I’ve known for ages recently came to see me, bursting with news to share. She had just learned that her grandfather died of heart disease in his 50s, and she wanted to know: should she see a cardiologist?

📣 HELLO READERS! Please join me this summer for the official Beyond the Prescription Book Club! It’s open exclusively to Substack readers and gives you early access to the book, pre-publication. 👀 We’ll get into the nitty gritty of health and wellness and what it all means for YOU. Sign-ups are open in May only. The following questions have been lightly edited for length and clarity. Hi Dr. McBride, I’m 49 and have been on birth control pills for almost 30 years.