Hi beautiful, A woman came to see me a few years ago, and on paper there was very little wrong. Her gut had settled, she was sleeping more than she had in months, and by every physical measure she should have been feeling better. She sat across from me and told me she felt heavy, like she was moving through water. We had repaired a great deal of the biology and something was still unwell, and it was not bacterial, it was not a deficiency, and I could not put a pathology form on it. That is...
about 1 month ago • 9 min read
Hello beautiful, We tend to think of bone loss as a menopause problem, something to worry about later. The evidence suggests it often begins earlier, in the years when ovulation becomes less reliable and progesterone, the hormone that builds new bone, starts to fall. That is the part so many women are never told. You can have a regular-looking period and still not be ovulating every month, and from your mid-thirties that becomes more common. So the bone-building side of the equation can...
about 2 months ago • 1 min read
Beautiful, I want to tell you what happened on the Vitality Clinic Conversations call earlier this week. Robyn came onto the call having just finished her job. Her last day was the day before; she was due to start somewhere new on Monday. And, in her own words, she was an ugly-crying mess. She said it out loud. She had never cried so hard leaving a job in her life. She did not think much of the company itself; she loved her people. So there she was , raw, asking out loud whether she had made...
3 months ago • 4 min read
I want to tell you about the first scene of my book, Reader A beautiful woman walks into my clinic with her GP's blood results in her hand, and she says, "My doctor tells me I'm fine. Everything is within normal range." Then the tears come, and she says something I hear in my clinic every week: "I'm just so tired of being exhausted." I see her in every woman who walks through my door. "Within normal range" is not the same as thriving. A standard GP panel tells us some things, but it often...
3 months ago • 1 min read
A question came up in our Vitality Conversation this week, and it is one I hear in the clinic almost weekly. "What do I do if I have 5 kg to lose?" Here is what I would like to offer you in response. I do not want you asking that question anymore. The kilo count is the wrong measure; it is a number that tells you almost nothing about what is actually happening inside your unique biochemistry. The question I want you asking instead is, am I metabolically flexible? Before I unpack that with...
3 months ago • 10 min read
Hello beautiful Reader, Last week inside the Vitality Clinic the conversations across the four calls held something I want to bring forward before we step furrther into Week Five. A pattern threaded itself through every room. Several of you, on different days, used almost the same words: "I feel broken," "I feel like I'm losing myself," "I don't even know who I am anymore." Reader, that is not a malfunction. That is a neuroendocrine transition state doing exactly what biology has asked it to...
3 months ago • 5 min read
Hi gorgeous, I need to be really honest with you, Reader. I am sitting down to write this because I have been hiding something, and I do not want to hide it any more. For 26 years I have been inside a clinical room with four walls. And behind those four walls, with one woman sitting across from me, I have been practicing something much bigger than the version of me you see online. You already know I am a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine, with a double degree in acupuncture and herbal...
4 months ago • 4 min read
