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SarahLiz - Health Activist

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WEGO Health is continually looking for great health activists to invite to our community. If you know of a great health blogger, active health forum member, or someone you'd like us to reach out to, please let me know!

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This week in infertility: what are health activists talking about?

Posted on December 5, 2009 at 4:55pm —

Make the most of your New Year's Resolutions

Posted on December 3, 2009 at 5:01pm —

2009 Beauty Awards - a gift giving guide?

Posted on December 2, 2009 at 7:30am — 2 Comments

Men, exercise and fertility: a follow-up post

Posted on December 1, 2009 at 5:00am —

HIV/AIDS affects more than physical health

Posted on November 30, 2009 at 7:00pm — 2 Comments

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Sarah added a blog post

This week in infertility: what are health activists talking about?

Hormone offers promise as fertility treatment: New research suggests that the hormone kisspeptin may show promise as a potential infertility treatment. Kisspeptin is a product of the KISS-1 gene and is a key regulator of reproductive function. An...

yesterday

A blog post by Sarah was featured

Make the most of your New Year's Resolutions

With 2010 right around the corner, many of us are making New Year's Resolution lists that include making our personal (and professional) lives better. I would bet that most of the lists include health measures to improve physical, mental and emot...

on Friday

Sarah added a blog post

Make the most of your New Year's Resolutions

on Thursday

Sarah commented on Sarah's blog post 'Exercise and infertility: how closely are they related?'

Crystal, oh lord how I hope that isn't the case. I don't know if it's worth that much effort (in my opinion) to exercise to exhaustion JUST to prevent pregnancy when there are so many other easy-to-take birth control options out there!

on Wednesday

Sarah commented on Sarah's blog post 'Exercise and infertility: how closely are they related?'

AmyK - glad that it makes sense to people. Once I started reading, it made total sense to me, too! I haven't seen much discussion about the subject just yet but hopefully we can encourage people to talk more! I posted about the male counterpart to...

on Wednesday

Sarah commented on Sarah's blog post 'HIV/AIDS affects more than physical health'

Crystal, you're welcome. The more people who know that living with HIV/AIDS isn't a) a death sentence or b) always a show of your true character the more the stigma can be lessened. Before I had read a few of the blog posts I found about this top...

on Wednesday

Sarah commented on Sarah's blog post '2009 Beauty Awards - a gift giving guide?'

I was going to ask you about how the Boots line was treating you. I know that you've also mentioned some other gift giving guides around the internet, would you be willing to share them here for us ladies?

on Wednesday

Sarah commented on Sarah's blog post 'Women, what could those symptoms really mean?'

Crystal, I hate thinking that I'm being a hypochondriac when I notice that something is wrong with my body, but like we've been discussing, we know our bodies better than anyone else, and if we notice that something is wrong, we are most likely ri...

on Wednesday

Profile Information

In the online health communities I participate in, I'm:

a Broadcaster (Getting the word out)

The online health resource I contribute to most frequently is:

http://www.wegohealth.com

This site is:

a community I manage/moderate, a community I contribute to

I’m also on:

http://twitter.com/WEGOSarah

It's:

my twitter

More about me (my health interests and reasons for joining WEGO Health)

I'm Sarah, a late 20-something woman learning to make the best cup of coffee (mmmm, tasty caffeinated antioxidants!). I am a nanny by day and a superhero by night. Okay, well, not really, I mostly do health research, email Marie and listen to the TV. I live with a arthritis-like condition called ankylosing spondylitis and love hot bubble baths. I am a Twitter addict as well as a active blogger. My toes are always cold and I don't really mind it.

I have a BA in German (from Oregon State University) and in Community Health Education (from Portland State University). My ultimate goal would be to educate the health educators but in the meantime I do a lot of reading on women's health, HIV/AIDS and childhood poverty. I am passionate about working towards improved health conditions for women and children of both the United States and globally.

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At 3:16pm on November 3, 2009, Lee Edwards said…: Hi Sarah,

I appreciate the warm and friendly e-mail. We health activists have to stick together. :) If I could find a full-time job as a health activist I would be so happy.

I am the Founder of the Women's Health imperative in Vernon Hills, IL. Our group is about the importance of women taking care of their health.

It's imperative that women learn about wellness, disease prevention and become their own health advocate.

We will meet quarterly to learn about various health care topics and disease prevention. I am in the process of developing outings to
health food stores, organic food stores, etc.

Also, I am working on a health advocacy blog. How, I got started was when I was diagnosed with Uveitis and had a difficult time finding specialists educated about this eye disorder and how to properly treat it. I have now come full circle and am healed but it was an ordeal.

I really consider myself a health evangelist. That's the best description I can come up with because that's what I do!

Take a look at my site and tell me what you think:
http://www.meetup.com/Women-s-Health-Imperative/

The link for teen parents is as follows: http://www.meetup.com/Teen-Parents-Too-Soon/
I am trying to get this off the ground.

Also, the quiz was good.

Warm regards,

Necie Edwards

At 1:38pm on September 23, 2009, Brooklynn said…: Hey Lady!

I am good. I have actually been fairly migraine free...whoohooo! I am really thinking one of the main culprits was my birth control pill. My hormones are finally getting back to normal.

How are you doing?

At 11:27am on September 15, 2009, Jill Knapp said…: Thank you for your sweet comment!

At 8:59am on August 31, 2009, Cheryl Sunshine Benson said…: i did the quiz ages ago, it said librian, sp, tying hard, i felt i was that and something else in it, i can't remember which

At 11:35pm on August 27, 2009, Veromay said…: Thanks for your warm welcome. I will check out the fibro/chronic pain section.

At 5:40pm on August 9, 2009, Brooklynn said…: I received the same request from Dr. Rutledge! Unfortunately I have not found the website to be particularly easy to navigate through.

At 8:49am on July 10, 2009, Lorraine Blum said…: Love reading your post would love to have you as a friend. Lorraine

At 9:01am on July 6, 2009, Lorraine Blum said…: Thank you for your welcome I would be delighted to share my health tidbits with others. I also have Health Domain Names that some of you may be interested in such as justheal.me, Psychotherapist4.me, and more. If so let me know. I love the field of Healing. Anything I can do further let me know I will look into the communities and forums you have here, thank you again for inviting me. Lorraine Blum

At 4:29pm on June 27, 2009, sergio allasia said…: hi sarah would u like be my friend?

At 12:53pm on June 15, 2009, Breathinstephen said…: Thanks for the kind words. On April 20th, I achieved my goal and became the first person with documented severe lung disease to ever finish the Boston marathon.

Good luck at the Portland marathon, which my the way is one of my favorites in the whole world. ( Ive done it twice)