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All of medicine should be personalized and vaginal health is no exception. The field of genomic medicine, what your genes and what genes the bugs we have living with us,  have has begun to make it's way into personalized disease management, and interestingly enough, this applies to vaginal health too. Individualizing you gyno care based on either the unique genes or the unique function of the genes in our system apparently also applies to the genes of the bacteria we harbor in our vaginas. In reality we have more bacteria, by far, than cells in our body. The behavior of the bacteria in our body is critical to our good health, as well as being critical to curing many diseases. Vaginal health is one example of an organ system that is only healthy if the right balance of bacteria is present.  Bacterial Vaginoisis (BV) is an infection gets started when you lose the normal, healthy, vaginal lactobacilli. There are actually many groups of bacteria in the vagina, and we won't be ...