Unlocking Natural Weight Loss
Updated: 11/24/19 Over the years I’m sure I’ve lost over 100 pounds — the same 10 pounds, 10 times! This is the kind of thing I hear from my patients all the time, and it makes me wonder how many American women [...]
“Am I Losing My Mind?” What You Can Do About Fuzzy Thinking
Updated 7/12/2020 The other day, my friend told me that she’d frantically been searching for her glasses – until her husband pointed out they were on her face. Another friend told me about a time when, stopped at a stoplight, she started [...]
Allergies and Sensitivities: A Rising Health Concern
Updated 04/11/2021 So often, patients arrive in my office with signs of inflammation resulting from some type of allergy that they didn’t even realize they had. It can be hard to convince these women that the pain, swelling, fatigue and other uncomfortable [...]
Anatomy of the Skin
The skin is an amazing, versatile organ that is truly holistic. It covers your entire body and stretches from deep within to the outside. Once you understand how comprehensive your skin is, you will see that it only makes sense to start [...]
Digestive Health for Women
When I started my practice in the early 1980’s, I was amazed by the number of women suffering from constipation, diarrhea, increased gas, bloating after eating, fatigue and the many other symptoms of gastrointestinal distress. It wasn’t long before I realized this [...]
Lymphoma and Lymphedema
Similar Words Describe Different Lymphatic System Diseases Medical terms can be confusing, especially those that sound a lot alike, but mean very different things. You might not be aware that lymphoma and lymphedema, though both impacting the lymphatic system in your body, [...]
Stress and Weight Loss – Is Adrenal Imbalance Keeping You from Weight Loss?
Too often, women and their healthcare practitioners think weight loss is all about cutting calories and exercising more. But I have several patients who’ve tried these avenues with no success. The majority of women I see at my practice are genuinely trying [...]
Bone Density and Bone Strength: Ending the Confusion
You’ve likely heard media hype about a connection between bone density and bone strength. But did you know there is no hard evidence that bone density correlates with bone strength or flexibility—the two factors that prevent fractures? In fact, bones can be [...]
How Bones Are Built and Lost
Bones are complicated living tissue, not ossified shells around marrow like soup bones you bring home from the butcher. Bones are 35% latticed protein—an infrastructure known as the collagen matrix—and 65% mineralized collagen, which gives the bone its strength. Bone health depends on [...]
Do I Have to Take Tamoxifen?
This is one of the most common questions I am asked by women who have received a breast cancer diagnosis. This is encouraging to me, because now informed women are questioning the side effects of this pill, which is the most widely [...]