Dr Kirstey Holland is the Founder of The Holland Clinic. Helping women in perimenopause restore energy, clarity, metabolic balance, and a deep sense of vitality—so they can feel like themselves again, and function at a high level. Through a structured, doctor-led approach, women are guided through the Hierarchy of Healing—a process developed over 26 years of clinical practice that addresses gut health, hormones, metabolism, and the nervous system in the right order. This work is brought to life through the Holland Clinic Protocol: Eat, Sleep, Move, Think, Connect, Test, Prescribe. Author of This Is Perimenopause.
Your bloods came back "within normal range"
I want to tell you about the first scene of my book, ReaderA 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 does not include the critical data we need to see what is actually happening in a woman's body at a deeper level. And so women go for years being told they are fine, while every cell in their body is quietly saying otherwise. This week I have written a short guide for you. It speaks to the pain so many of you carry (the one where you have been told you are fine but you know you are not), and it gives you five specific steps you can begin this week, including knowing what deeper testing actually exists. Inside the Vitality Clinic, this is where we begin. With the testing, the tracking, and the precision of someone who is actually looking. With love and care, Dr Kirstey Holland, OMD |
The Holland Clinic
Dr Kirstey Holland is the Founder of The Holland Clinic. Helping women in perimenopause restore energy, clarity, metabolic balance, and a deep sense of vitality—so they can feel like themselves again, and function at a high level. Through a structured, doctor-led approach, women are guided through the Hierarchy of Healing—a process developed over 26 years of clinical practice that addresses gut health, hormones, metabolism, and the nervous system in the right order. This work is brought to life through the Holland Clinic Protocol: Eat, Sleep, Move, Think, Connect, Test, Prescribe. Author of This Is Perimenopause.
Hello, There is something I see often in my clinic. A woman has gone several months without a period, decides she must now be menopausal, and accepts a treatment created for menopausal women. Her bleeding gets heavier, her breasts get tender, her sleep gets worse, and she wonders what she is doing wrong. She is doing nothing wrong. Until twelve months and one day have passed without a bleed, her ovaries are still active and she is still perimenopausal, which is almost the opposite hormonal...
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...
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...