Articles & Research

This one is really personal.  I hesitated to even write about it, but it is too important not to.  It’s off my usual topic of menopause, except in that (as...

Your liver is a built-in Hormone Regulation Unit.  It does the big job of filtering excess hormones out of your blood stream by sending them through the bile duct into...

Military strategies to uplevel your health (really!). Have you heard about the Three Levels of Warfare? Now, I hate to characterize menopause (or anything relating to midlife, for that matter)...

I suppose I should begin with a trigger warning – this will make some people mad. I’ve been reading a lot of articles lately calling for employers, healthcare providers, governments,...

We tend to think of excess weight as something benign, more an aesthetic problem than anything else.  This couldn’t be further from the truth.  Did you know that fat is...

Ever since perimenopause set in (around age 45 for me), I have struggled with bladder infections. Or at least I assumed that’s what they were.  They would just show up...

Something that has always frustrated me about western medicine – and our culture in general – is this tendency to reduce us (I’m talking here about women, but it applies...

I am impatient.  I mean REALLY impatient.  My whole life, I couldn’t wait to get wherever I was going – I walk too fast, talk too fast, get annoyed with...