Imagine if on top of your busy life there was another entire life that you had to deal with. Only this other life isn’t easily seen or understood by other people. This other life is having a chronic illness.

It’s that time of year when the air turns crisp, the leaves begin to fall, and seasonal influenza or “flu” once again becomes widespread in the places we work, live, and socialize with our friends. Given the recent epidemics of COVID-19 and Monkeypox, the approaching annual flu season may have slipped your mind.

Natter, an endocrinologist and fellow millennial, treats patients whose endocrine systems (our body’s system of glands that produce and release hormones) have gone awry in different ways.

What’s it like to be young, healthy, and invincible, and suddenly diagnosed with thyroid cancer or another condition? Dr. Mike Natter answers our thyroid cancer questions.

For better or for worse, our healthcare system is almost as complex a system as our bodies, which is why it is so crucial that you be your own advocate at the doctor’s office. No one knows what ails you better than you do!

YMyHealth speaks with fellow millennial and infectious disease specialist, Lindsay Morrison, MD, MSCI to learn what communities are at risk, how this virus differs from COVID-19, and what precautions we should when traveling this summer.

To truly understand why millennials are increasingly impacted by a disease that we have the ability to detect early, we must know what is befalling patients and healthcare providers along the way to a diagnosis and more importantly, in preventing the disease all together.

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you hear the words “colorectal cancer”? For some in their 20s, 30s, or early 40s, the response is: “that’s an old man’s disease.” Not anymore.

Spotlight on cholesterol and millennials: How can you be proactive about this important part of heart health?

What happens to your family members does not have to be your destiny too. To have a chance at better heart health, knowing your family’s health history shouldn’t be the exception. It should be the rule.

In recognition of American Heart Month, we talked with fellow millennial Nicole Harkin, MD, a board-certified cardiologist and internist, about heart health.

As Jason Phillips, LCWS, tells us, there is a lot millennials can look back on and be proud of in navigating these challenging times. The lessons we’ve learned in the long run may actually give us a greater ability to shape the life and career we have been searching for.

As you make your choice about when and if you are going to roll up your sleeve to get the flu shot this year, here are five things that members of Generation Y should keep in mind about the flu, according to infectious disease specialist and fellow millennial, Minji Kang, MD.

How well do you handle change? While those of us in our mid-20s, 30s, and now 40 have been confronted with having to make some pretty big adjustments in our millennial lives before the COVID-19 pandemic, life since March 2020 has presented an exceptionally frequent amount of change.

What concerns you more? The flu or COVID-19? For many millennials, it’s both.

For most of us, the company picnic, ice cream socials for workers in your office building on a hot summer day, and free food delivered to your team to reward them for their hard work bring back fond memories of office life. But what was and still is their common purpose?

As the 2021-2022 Flu Season kicks-off this month, infectious disease specialist and fellow millennial, 34-year-old, Minji Kang, MD, shares with us what’s unique about this season and why we should make the time to get our flu shots.

The on-the-go life of being a millennial—balancing work, relationships, caregiving, our own time to exercise, and household responsibilities—can be exhausting. No doubt, the COVID-19 pandemic has taken this to another level.

Why showing up to get the flu shot this season could make millennials the heroes of the Coronavirus pandemic story.

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