Articles & Free Guides

Research and thoughts
on the latest in women's health.

Free resources

Beautifully designed guides to download.

The Cycle Tracking & Hormone Health Guide

Interactive guide

The Cycle Tracking & Hormone Health Guide

A beautifully designed guide to reading your cycle like the language it has always been. BBT, cervical mucus, LH strips, low progesterone, and what your body is actually telling you.

The Morning Light Protocol

7-day guide · PDF

The Morning Light Protocol

The simplest, most powerful intervention I give every client. A free 7-day reset to anchor your hormones to natural light.

The Perimenopause Primer

22 pages · PDF

The Perimenopause Primer

The early signs, the lab markers worth asking for, and the five lifestyle anchors I recommend to every woman over 35.

Articles

Recent essays from the practice.

What on Earth Is a DUTCH Test, and Do I Need One?

Functional Testing · 3 min read

What on Earth Is a DUTCH Test, and Do I Need One?

The single most useful hormone test in functional medicine, what it actually shows, who benefits and who really doesn't.

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What They Don't Tell Young Women About Sex

For Young Women · 3 min read

What They Don't Tell Young Women About Sex

A quiet, honest conversation for daughters, and for the mothers who love them, about something nobody seems willing to say out loud.

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The Case Against Cycle Tracking Apps

Cycle Awareness · 3 min read

The Case Against Cycle Tracking Apps

Modern period apps promise to tell you when you are fertile, when you will bleed, even when it is 'safe'. They cannot. And believing them can cost you a great deal.

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The Menopause No One Studies, and Why That Has to Change

Perimenopause & Menopause · 3 min read

The Menopause No One Studies, and Why That Has to Change

Every woman who lives long enough will go through menopause. Less than 1% of medical research has ever studied it. This is what that gap costs us, and what we are doing about it.

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The Pregnenolone Steal: Why Chronic Stress Eats Your Hormones

Stress & Hormones · 3 min read

The Pregnenolone Steal: Why Chronic Stress Eats Your Hormones

Why so many modern women have low progesterone, painful periods and mid-luteal anxiety, and what the body is choosing to make instead.

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The Cholesterol Lie, and What It Did to Women

Nutrition · 3 min read

The Cholesterol Lie, and What It Did to Women

Forty years of low-fat dogma left an entire generation of women under-nourished, hormonally depleted, and afraid of the very building blocks their bodies need to thrive.

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Why the Pill Isn't the Answer to Everything

Contraception · 3 min read

Why the Pill Isn't the Answer to Everything

The combined oral contraceptive pill is offered as the answer to almost every hormonal complaint a woman walks into a GP surgery with. It is not. And there is a quiet cost to pretending otherwise.

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PCOS Is Now PMOS, and the Name Change Matters

PCOS / PMOS · 3 min read

PCOS Is Now PMOS, and the Name Change Matters

After fifty years of being called Polycystic Ovary Syndrome, the condition is finally being renamed. Here is what is changing, and why it matters for every woman who has ever been told her labs are 'normal'.

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