You’re exhausted, you’re stressed, you have a mysterious bruise on your arm that won’t go away and you just can’t sleep at night. Is it just (peri)menopause? Is Mercury in retrograde? Or could it be Vitamin D deficiency?!
Ok, so you’ve been diagnosed with Hypothyroidism or Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, and you're wondering about your hypothyroid treatment options. Perhaps this just happened or maybe you’ve been living with and managing thyroid disease for years or even decades. What do you...
Have you recently been diagnosed with Hashimoto’s thyroiditis? Take a deep breath. Now, do it again. Hashimoto's can be a scary diagnosis. Let me tell you, it’s going to be OK. Hashimoto’s is a unique autoimmune condition in that it is not often associated with...
Why is everyone talking about thyroid? Ok, maybe in your world people do not always talk about this important hormone, but in my world it comes up a lot! Let’s review this precious hormone and see why it gets a lot of attention, especially amongst women. What does my...
Can antidepressants coexist with naturopathic medicine? The answer may surprise you! This is the story of how I, a trained Naturopathic Doctor, found myself faced with my greatest fear, antidepressants and found a way to have antidepressants coexist with naturopathic...
One of the most difficult aspects of this stage of life has been perimenopause's effect on my mood. I am comforted knowing that many women struggle along with me. I talk to women every day who are having a harder time during this transition period. Hormones play such...
One of the most common changes in perimenopause is in how women sleep (or don’t, rather). I regularly hear from patients that they struggle and the struggles vary from difficulty getting to sleep, to sleeping lighter in general to waking at 3 am every night unable to...
It feels unfair to be PMSing through perimenopause, it must be one or the other, right? I wrote before about what’s happening with the two major hormones in a normal monthly menstrual cycle. Estrogen is the Queen of the first two weeks (when the period starts to...
I write this at 5am, in our temporarily quiet home while everyone is asleep. I used to get frustrated when I woke up early like this. Now, I relish in the peace and quiet. Before I had kids, I remember talking with a mom-friend who said she recently started getting up...
I have a medical clinic in Seattle where I practice naturopathic medicine . I am a naturopathic physician focusing on women's health issues for women mostly in the 25-65 year old range. This is a little story about one of those women, who is so like many of the 35 to...
