If you suffer from:

Hot flashes & night sweats,
Sleep problems, fatigue, fibromyalgia,
Emotional instability, brain fog, memory issues,
Decreased libido, vaginal dryness, incontinence, frequent  bladder or vaginal infections,
Hair loss & poor skin appearance,
Loss of bone density & muscle strength, or
Premature aging.

Or if you want to continue to be as healthy as possible as you age:

Then you would benefit by testing your hormones and learning how to get them into balance.  

Some women may go through their entire lives never being in hormonal balance.  As teens, they may suffer with acne, PMS, and heavy painful periods.  Hormonal imbalance can cause infertility and miscarriage when they are trying to start or add to their families.   

By age 40, most women will have some hormonal imbalance, unfortunately.

The first hormone to drop is usually progesterone, and levels can start decreasing a decade before menopause-causing anxiety, depression, PMS, insomnia, and heavy, painful periods.  This hormone imbalance may even increase the risk of breast and uterine cancer.

After menopause, all sex hormones eventually drop, causing accelerated aging and loss of bone and muscle mass.

Hormones can be replaced to improve and optimize health, but to get the best results it is imperative to use the right hormones, at the right dosages, at the right times, using the best delivery system, and then doing the right follow up testing to make sure levels are in optimal range.  

It is difficult to find hormone experts who get all these factors right.  Some very famous providers are mixing the wrong delivery systems and lab testing methods, and prescribing 100 to 200 TIMES the amount of estrogen that a young healthy woman would make naturally.    

This is extremely dangerous.  Please don't make this mistake.  At the very least, read my ebook so that you can avoid overdosing on estrogen.  Even better, join my educational program to learn how to get your hormones in balance for a lifetime.  

Medical doctors (like myself) have invested an incalculable amount of time, money, blood, sweat, and tears to obtain the knowledge to help others heal.  Imagine graduating from high school, then spending the next 4 years of your life taking the hardest classes, working against the smartest students, to get the best grades possible, so that you will be qualified to even apply to med school.  Unless you are blessed to have wealthy parents, in your spare time you will hold down a job for living expenses and do activities to prove to a medical school admissions board that you have what it takes to be successful in med school.  Of course, you will be competing against the very top students in the country to get into one of only about 28,000 spots in the entire nation.

In med school, you will be borrowing money to pay for the privilege of learning how to care for patients.  You will work about 60-80 hours a week without pay, sometimes staying up all night during hospital rotations.  You will be living barely above the poverty level.  

Upon graduating from med school, you will have spent the last 8 years studying and working harder than many people ever do and still have not collected a singe paycheck.  By now you've probably borrowed hundreds of thousands of dollars in student loans you will immediately have to start paying back after graduation.  

Then it's time for residency.  If you are lucky enough to secure a spot in a residency training program, you will be spending the next 3 to 7 years of your life working 60 to 80 or more hours weekly. You will be one of the lowest paid hospital employees. Your hourly pay will be less than many high school grads (and you are paying back your loans).

You’ll be working hours that would be illegal in any other industry, frequently working 24-32 hour shifts. You’ll be making life or death decisions for people. You will not be prepared emotionally or physically for the stress that you will be under.  

As an example:  At the end of my 1st year in residency, after being on call up to 16 days a month, often working well over 80 hours weekly, and being extremely sleep deprived for a year, my residency director recommended that I see a psychologist or counselor because I was moody and irritable.  

Well, DUH!

 Unfortunately, after graduating from residency, the stress level doesn't really decrease.  You will continue to be responsible for the health of your clients, sometimes in life or death situations.  You will continue to be sleep deprived.  Now you will be at war with health insurance companies who don't want to cover the imagining studies and meds you recommend for your patients. If you are employed, you will be pushed to see as many patients as possible, even if you don't have time to provide the best care.  And you might have patients who demand treatments that may be harmful in the long run.  

It's overwhelming and it sucks.  

The sacrifices and stresses of training are incalculable. If I had to do it all over again, would I? 

Probably not. 

And this is really a scary thing for our society: it takes a minimum of 11 years of education and training after high school to fully train any medical doctor.  After 11 years, I finally felt fairly comfortable diagnosing and treating most conditions that my patients would have.  Or even being able to recognize rare disorders that I may see in the clinic so that I knew what the next step in their care would be, even if they needed a specialist.

There are no shortcuts to being competent in caring for patients.  After the years of training and sacrifice, physicians deserve to be reimbursed for the massive investment that they made to be able to provide exceptional care.  

I have invested a lot to have the knowledge to be able to help you and you should be willing to invest a fraction of this amount to get that knowledge.  

No.

Health insurance companies exist to make money. They get rich by charging patients (or their employers) huge amounts in premiums, and then turn around and pay doctors (especially those in primary care) less than what it takes to provide care. Doctors have to either squeeze more and more patients into their days-harming the health of both doctors and patients; or they have to be employed for health care systems that make money from labs, imaging, chemo, meds, or other therapies.

Then insurance companies make it difficult for doctors to get finally get paid after they have provided services. Doctors have to hire specialized billing professionals who are experts in helping docs get paid. This significantly increases the cost of doing business.

So this is why most functional medicine doctors are not able to take health insurance, unfortunately.

And after investing tens of thousands of hours (and the equivalent of over a million dollars in tuition costs and lost wages to obtain my education) I would frankly rather work only with women who are motivated and willing to invest in their own health.

I hope and pray that someday, people will have health freedom and can choose how to invest their own money in the best ways for them to stay healthy.