Episode 24: From Fertility to Hot Flashes: Navigating Women's Health Without Filters

Episode 24: From Fertility to Hot Flashes: Navigating Women's Health Without Filters

 

In this unfiltered episode of "Positively Altered," Dr. Cindy Howard engages in a candid conversation with Dr. Kris Tohtz about women's health, acupuncture, and menopause. Their banter travels from the therapeutic benefits of acupuncture for fertility and hormonal balance to the shared indignities of perimenopause. With refreshing honesty and humor, they discuss everything from "sneeze pees" to public bathroom etiquette, weaving medical expertise with personal anecdotes. The chemistry between these two medical professionals creates an atmosphere where no topic is off-limits, offering listeners both evidence-based insights and genuine laughter as they demystify women's health experiences with wisdom and wit.

 

In this episode, we cover:

 

• (5:39) Raw-dogging menopause
• (7:18) White pants for the win!
• (10:12) Menopause can suck for a lot of us, right?
• (15:09) Why does acupuncture work?
• (20:22) Men’s bathrooms, peeing in jumpsuits, spanx and tunics.
• (25:38) Fertility
• (33:10) Electronics and fertility
• (38:32) “Urine” big trouble boys!
• (47:22) Rapid-fire questions

 

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About Dr. Kris Tohtz:

 

Dr. Kris Tohtz graduated magna cum laude from the National University of Health Sciences in April 2001. While attending chiropractic school, she also began working toward a Diplomate in Acupuncture and in August 2009 received her Diplomate in Acupuncture from the American Chiropractic Association. 

 

After attending two supervised medical internships in Beijing and Hangzhou, China, she found advanced studies to be warranted and obtained her Master of Science in Acupuncture (MsAc) through the National University of Health Sciences graduating summa cum laude in August 2014. 

 

Dr Tohtz is a trained post-partum doula as well as completed an advanced certification in Pregnancy and Pediatric care through the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association, she is presently helping the ACA Pediatrics Council as their Diplomate Educational Co-Coordinator for which she won Chiropractor of the Year 2023. 

 

She also completed training to become a practitioner in the McKenzie Method of Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy and holds a specialty teaching certificate from the Association of College and University Educators (ACUE). She teaches continuing education to healthcare practitioners of all types on the topics of acupuncture, dry needling, pregnancy, nutrition, and pediatric care. She has also earned a certification through the prestigious Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM). She has served the ACA Acupuncture Council in all positions for over 10 years and served on the Illinois Department of Professional Regulations Acupuncture Board for 6 years.

 

Dr. Tohtz has been a clinician for over 23 years and is the owner and lead clinician at Serenity Family Wellness, a managing partner at Fusion Care, LLC, the Educational Co-Coordinator for the ACA Pediatric Council’s Diplomate Program, and is a Chiropractic Physician and practicing Acupuncturist through the Veteran Administration at Post St. Lucie, Florida. 

 

In her free time, she loves hiking, gardening, cooking, and spending time with her husband and dog.

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