Interview Series: Dr. Wendie Trubow, MD, MBA

Issue #30 of "What's Her Problem?": Toxins are wreaking havoc on our bodies, and Functional Medicine practitioners can help us mitigate their impact.

This week’s questions:

What’s one small thing you can do in your daily life to mitigate toxins? Have you seen a Functional Medicine practitioner?

Links/References:

Take Dr. Wendie’s Toxins Quiz

Read “Dirty Girl: Ditch the Toxins, Look Great, and Feel Freaking Amazing”

American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine (A4M)

Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM)

Environmental Working Group’s Skin Deep Database

Think Dirty App

Dirty Dozen

Clean 15

Aspen Clean

Five Journeys (Sign Up for Dr. Wendie’s Newsletter)

https://www.facebook.com/WendieTrubowMD

Instagram: @wendietrubowmd

Guest Post: Dawn Levitt, Two-Time Heart Transplant Recipient

Issue #29 of "What's Her Problem?": Organ donors save lives.

Part 5 of my 5-part series of Heart Month posts, bringing awareness to a variety of topics in cardiology.

This week’s questions:

Are you an organ donor? If not, would you consider becoming one?

Links/References:

http://www.4hcm.org/

https://dawnlevitt.substack.com/

https://www.4hcm.org/center-of-excellence

https://www.organdonor.gov/sign-up

https://www.4hcm.org/what-is-hcm

Epidemiology of the inherited cardiomyopathies - PubMed

About Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM) | Heart Disease, Family Health History, and Familial Hypercholesterolemia | CDC

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/CIRCHEARTFAILURE.110.959288

Related Posts:

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/interview-series-lisa-salberg-founder?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/what-if-there-had-been-another-treatment?r=heamx

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/how-it-feels-for-someone-else-to?r=heamx

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/the-childrens-cardiac-safety-act?r=heamx

The Children's Cardiac Safety Act

Issue #28 of "What's Her Problem?": You can help ensure ‘well-child’ and student-athlete pre-participation exams include cardiac screenings.

Part 4 of my 5-part series of Heart Month posts, bringing awareness to a variety of topics in cardiology.

This week’s questions:

Does your state have Children’s Cardiac Safety Act legislation enacted yet? If not, will you send a letter to your representatives asking them to consider it?

Links/References:

http://4hcm.org/

Sudden Death in the Young: Information for the Primary Care Provider

New Jersey laws: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1GR_F2TFBizOny67tE0OHnhVunBjXdCk7?usp=sharing

Massachusetts H2485

Maryland SB0593

Missouri HB1846

Contact your state officials: https://ujoin.co/campaigns/1453/actions/public?action_id=1524

HCMA’s YouTube page

Children’s Cardiac Safety Act (Model Language)

American Heart Association

Contact your state officials

send a letter to your representatives

Related Posts:

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/interview-series-lisa-salberg-founder?r=heamx

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/what-if-there-had-been-another-treatment?r=heamx

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/how-it-feels-for-someone-else-to?r=heamx

How It Feels for Someone Else to Control Your Heart

Issue #27 of "What's Her Problem?": What happens when someone with an ICD, who is 100% pacemaker-dependent, needs to get an MRI?

Part 3 of my 5-part series of Heart Month posts, bringing awareness to a variety of topics in cardiology.

This week’s questions:

Can you imagine what it would feel like to lose control of your heartbeat? Is there a medical test that you have avoided, for fear of it being uncomfortable or unsafe?

Links/References:

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/weird-science?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/interview-series-lisa-salberg-founder?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

https://www.foundationsem.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/EKG-II-U12-Instructor-Resource-Packet-2.pdf

https://www.medtronicacademy.com/features/mri-surescan-feature

https://www.medtronicacademy.com/features/mri-surescan-feature

Related Posts:

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/what-if-there-had-been-another-treatment?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/holding-my-heartbeat-in-my-hands?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/penicillin-anaphylaxis-and-the-allergist?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/interview-series-lisa-salberg-founder?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

What If There Had Been Another Treatment Option

Issue #26 of "What's Her Problem?": When new medications like cardiac myosin inhibitors come to market, it is difficult not to wonder what would have happened if they had been available sooner.

Part 2 of my 5-part series of Heart Month posts, bringing awareness to a variety of topics in cardiology.

This week’s questions:

Do you have any big “What If” moments in your own medical journey? If so, how do you reflect on them?

Links/References:

https://www.4hcm.org/center-of-excellence

https://www.camzyos.com/what-is-camzyos

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/lets-discuss?r=heamx

https://www.myqorzo.com/

https://www.4hcm.org/medications-dynamic-page-template/myosin-inhibitors

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/22318-beta-blockers

https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/high-blood-pressure/in-depth/calcium-channel-blockers/art-20047605#:~:text=When%20calcium%20channel%20blockers%20are,Examples%20are:

https://www.camzyos.com/what-is-camzyos

It should be noted that both Camzyos and Myqorzo are currently only approved for use in adult HCM patients with obstruction. People who have never been obstructed and those like myself, who are post-myectomy and now considered non-obstructed because my obstruction was surgically removed, are not eligible to take the medications. Clinical trials are under way for non-obstructed patients to see if one or both drugs can help us too, and recent Camzyos clinical trials show that it is likely safe for children with obstruction.

Related Posts:

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/reflections-on-the-2025-hcma-annual?r=heamx

 https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/lets-discuss?r=heamx

Interview Series: Lisa Salberg, Founder and CEO of the Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association (HCMA)

Issue #25 of "What's Her Problem?": Just one patient advocate can make a huge difference.

Part 1 of my 5-part series of Heart Month posts, bringing awareness to a variety of topics in cardiology.

This week’s questions:

Are you a patient advocate? If so, how did you get started? If not, what do you think makes someone a great patient advocate?

Show Notes:

The Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy Association (HCMA) Website: https://www.4hcm.org/Learn more about Centers of Excellence (COEs): https://www.4hcm.org/center-of-excellence

https://www.4hcm.org/store

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/archive

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/notes

Related Posts:

I was a guest on “Tales from the Heart” in 2024. You can watch that here:

https://youtu.be/kiFXpo-dV1U

Reflections from the HCMA Annual Patient Meeting

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/reflections-on-the-2025-hcma-annual?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Let’s Discuss

https://open.substack.com/pub/whatsherproblem/p/lets-discuss?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Interview Series: Sarah Hom

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/interview-series-sarah-hom-accessibility?r=heamx&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true

Penicillin, Anaphylaxis, and The Allergist Who Ghosted Me (Part 2)

Issue #24 of “What’s Her Problem?”: Nine out of 10 people who think they are allergic to Penicillin are not.

This week’s questions:

Have you made any surprising discoveries in your medical journey? If you think you are allergic to Penicillin, would you consider getting re-tested to be sure?

Links/References:

[https://www.jaci-inpractice.org/article/S2213-2198(20)30804-7/pdf#:~:text=The%20first%20recognition%20of%20delayed,the%20overlabeling%20of%20drug%20allergies.

DesBiens M, Scalia P, Ravikumar S, Glick A, Newton H, Erinne O, Riblet N. A Closer Look at Penicillin Allergy History: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Tolerance to Drug Challenge. Am J Med. 2020 Apr;133(4):452-462.e4. doi: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2019.09.017. Epub 2019 Oct 21. PMID: 31647915.

Eric Macy, N. Franklin Adkinson, The Evolution of Our Understanding of Penicillin Allergy: 1942-2022, The Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology: In Practice, Volume 11, Issue 2, 2023, Pages 405-413, ISSN 2213-2198, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaip.2022.09.006.

https://nationalpenicillinallergyday.com/

Macy E, Adkinson NF Jr. The Evolution of Our Understanding of Penicillin Allergy: 1942-2022. J Allergy Clin Immunol Pract. 2023 Feb;11(2):405-413. doi: 10.1016/j.jaip.2022.09.006. Epub 2022 Sep 15. PMID: 36116763.

Penicillin, Anaphylaxis, and The Allergist Who Ghosted Me (Part 1)

Issue #23 of “What’s Her Problem?”: The search for answers after a medical scare can lead to some interesting discoveries.

I have spent the last four decades thinking I was allergic to Penicillin. Last month, I learned that I am not.

This week’s questions:

 How do you begin to approach a medical mystery? Have you ever learned about a surgical trauma that you don’t remember? How did you handle it?

Links/References:

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/holding-my-heartbeat-in-my-hands?r=heamx

6 Ways Rafael Nadal Helps Me Manage Chronic Illness

Issue #22 of “What’s Her Problem?”: When chronic illness is getting us down, we can look to great sports figures for inspiration on the path forward.

This week’s questions:

Is there a sports figure or other celebrity from whom you’ve drawn inspiration? What did you learn from them?

Links/References:

Served by Andy Roddick: https://www.newsletter.servedpodcast.com/

Roddick on playing Nadal for the first time: https://youtu.be/TIxlvqQ4DqI?si=8xWsqJO3Uqtn-iXw

Highlights of the 2022 Australian Open Men's Final: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v27M_RgrLzU

Rafa on "What happened": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kIkp6n53g2w

Chronic Illness is a Team Sport: https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/chronic-illness-is-a-team-sport?r=heamx

This 2025 interview (https://youtu.be/_SvPnVAJyVI?si=cu57pqTdDzZc3J-W) between Roddick and Nadal is a worthy way to spend an hour…I’ve watched it twice! @ Served Media

“The Rafael Nadal Story-A Tennis Podcast Special,” 5/21/19 (thetennispodcast.net) @The Tennis Podcast

https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/mueller-weisse-disease/

https://projects.theplayerstribune.com/rafael-nadal-tennis/p/1

https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/06/tennis/rafael-nadal-suffering-chronic-injury-spt-intl

https://www.si.com/tennis/2012/09/18/rafael-nadal-talks-injury-career-vanity-fair#:~:text=%22I%20don't%20know%20how,%2C%22%20the%20tennis%20star%20said

https://projects.theplayerstribune.com/rafael-nadal-tennis/p/1

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-20/tennis-rafael-nadal-ends-2021-season-because-of-foot-injury/100395850

https://www.tennis.com/news/articles/rafael-nadal-records-that-may-never-be-broken-no-4-912-straight-weeks-in-the-top-10-retirement-stats

https://www.benrothenberg.com/p/rafael-nadal-retirement-ceremony-french-open-roland-garros-big-4-four-andy-murray-novak-djokovic-roger-federer?utm_source=publication-search

2025 Recap

Issue #21 of "What's Her Problem?": By looking back, you can see how far you've come.

A new year is almost upon us, “What’s Her Problem?” community! What better way to prepare than by taking stock of everything that’s happened for this publication in 2025 and looking ahead to 2026?

This week’s questions:

Do you have any feedback on “What’s Her Problem?” Any topics or questions you hope will be addressed in the future? Are there features or benefits for Free or Paid Subscribers that you’d like to see?

Links/References:

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/the-doctor-will-see-you-nowish?r=heamx

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/whats-her-problem?r=heamx

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/holding-my-heartbeat-in-my-hands?r=heamx

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/how-are-you-feeling?r=heamx

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/weird-science?r=heamx

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do?r=heamx

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/the-time-delta-lost-my-walker-part?r=heamx

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/the-time-delta-lost-my-walker-part-e7d?r=heamx

Notes

“What’s Her Problem?” website

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/t/hypertrophic-cardiomyopathy

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/t/chronic-illness

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/t/disability

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/t/neuropathy

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/t/living-with-an-icd-implantable-cardioverter

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/t/resources

https://launchpsych.com/tips-for-managing-chronic-illness-and-mental-health/?fbclid=IwY2xjawMSxqlleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFZSUhNWXl3cGxxcmV4OUpFAR5lm7Rck5ye_ZoluXT7wEnGrgEXp0j2tIgzxFbEgdw5-I7tnP_WYM3EROqYdg_aem_PjY9Eghzp-EDHfhK9xTs1w

https://whatsherproblem.substack.com/p/interview-series-sarah-hom-accessibility?r=heamx

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