You’ve had your cholesterol checked. Maybe more than once. What you almost certainly have not had checked is Lp(a), a genetic heart risk marker that has nothing to do with diet or exercise and everything to do with a number your standard lipid panel does not include. I see this gap constantly in my practice. […]
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You’ve been told hot flashes are simply what happens when estrogen drops. That is the explanation nearly every woman receives, and it skips the insulin resistance hot flashes connection entirely. I’ve had the same conversation more times than I can count: a woman in her mid-40s, hot flashes just starting. Nobody has checked her
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You’ve been told cardio is the heart-healthy choice and the weight rack is for building muscle, nothing more. That is conventional medicine’s answer on strength training heart risk, and I’ve never been satisfied with it. Women come to me with a cardio habit they have kept for decades: the treadmill, the spin class, the
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Two out of every three Alzheimer’s patients are women. Sit with that for a second, because medicine mostly hasn’t. For decades, brain health research treated dementia as a condition that simply happens to people. Nobody put weight on the massive, measurable sex gap that points straight at hormones. I’ve had this conversation with patients
A woman came to me last year drenched in sweat six times a night. Her doctor handed her a prescription for a low-dose antidepressant and sent her home. Nobody checked her fasting glucose. Her insulin levels went untested. Nobody asked what she was eating for breakfast. She was 46, and her doctor told her
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A patient sat across from me last month and told me her cardiologist called hormone therapy “too risky for her heart” at 54. She had gone through menopause three years earlier. No heart disease. No smoking history. Blood pressure under control. The answer was still no. I’ve had that conversation more times than I
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What if the “inevitable” symptoms of menopause weren’t something you had to endure, but signals that your body’s internal systems are simply out of…
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I’ve had women tell me their hot flashes got worse after they had COVID-19, and their doctors looked at them like they were reaching for a connection that wasn’t there. It’s not a reach. Nobody was tracking this until recently, and that silence does not mean the connection isn’t real. A study published in
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You’ve been told vaginal dryness and low desire are just part of getting older, something to manage quietly or not mention at all. That is conventional medicine’s answer, and it has never been good enough. Women stop bringing it up because doctors rush past it, and doctors rush past it because most have nothing
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Women come to me in their late 50s convinced they’re just getting weaker with age. They’ve kept lifting, kept walking, kept doing everything right, and their strength still slipped. Nobody checked the one hormone marker that actually explains it. Nobody tested SHBG. A new study using data from the Women’s Health Initiative just gave
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