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A note before we begin: This blog is not an attack on women who have used these interventions. Many made those decisions from a place of desperation, limited information, and genuine medical need. What I am challenging is the information gap: the failure to give women...
Bioidentical hormones can be a powerful tool. But when your foundations are broken, adding hormones to a depleted body is like painting a crumbling wall. She has done her research. She knows the language: bioidentical hormones, estradiol, progesterone, DHEA,...
If you read The Two Biggest Hormone Mistakes I See High-Achieving Women Make, you already know that over-exercising, under-eating, and jumping straight to supplements without addressing the stress root are among the most common, and most consequential, errors in...
Hormonal weight gain is not a calorie math problem. It is a hormonal terrain problem. And the "solutions" you've been told to try are often making it worse. You are eating carefully. You are exercising consistently. You have cut the sugar, increased the protein,...
Normal is not the same as optimal. And it's definitely not the same as well. She has heard it so many times she has started to believe it. "Your labs are normal." "Everything looks fine for your age." "It's probably just stress." "Have you considered that this might...
You’ve done everything right. You’re still exhausted. Here’s what nobody has told you about what is actually draining you. You’re sleeping. You’re eating (mostly) well. You have the supplements lined up on your kitchen counter. And you are still so tired that getting...
A client sits across from me and says it quietly: “I think I’m in perimenopause. Or maybe I’m just completely burnt out. I honestly can’t tell.” She is 41.She used to “handle everything.”Now she feels anxious, exhausted, foggy, and strangely overwhelmed by things that...
If you are a woman in your mid-40’s and you’ve recently found yourself thinking, “I don’t feel like myself anymore,” I want you to lean in real close and read this next part carefully… Because that sentence whispered quietly in exam rooms, spoken through tears in...
In the fertility community, the rumors abound. There are so many myths about what causes infertility and what increases your chances of getting pregnant. “You can’t get pregnant while you’re breastfeeding.”“Put your legs in the air for 20 minutes after sex to help you...
Ladies, as we age, our bodies change. It may be hard to believe if you are in your 20s to 30s. If you are in your 40s to 50s, this fact is becoming more real each day. The truth is, as women, we are so unaware of our health. We go from taking care of everyone else,...
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dr. mandy patterson, ND, fertility practitioner, & speaker
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