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Made for Health
Thyroid Whisperer
Listening to the Signals Your Body Has Been Sending
Rapid weight gain, unanswered questions, and doctors saying, ‘You’re fine.’ Dive into a story of resilience and uncovering the truth.
DHEA Blog
Although DHEA is one of the most commonly overlooked hormones, it is a master hormone responsible for the creation of cortisol, testosterone, and estrogen. While cortisol, testosterone, and estrogen…
Your Hormones in Harmony | Part 6
Progesterone: The Elder Sister
When I began studying medicine in 1996, I was told that after a woman had a hysterectomy or went through menopause she no longer needed progesterone. It was thought that…
Your Hormones in Harmony | Part 2
Cortisol
The King of All Hormones
The monarch of our hormonal hierarchy, cortisol, is an unsung hero when it’s in balance, but when it’s out of whack? It can turn your body into a realm of chaos.
The Hormone Hierarchy: An Introduction to the New Series on Hormones
This new blog series will discuss hormones and hormonal health as we step through many different hormones and discuss them individually. But first, in this post, I’d like to discuss…
Your Hormones in Harmony | Part 8
DHEA: The Mentor
Fountain of Youth...or Phony?
DHEA is commonly associated with anti-aging. It is prescribed for reproductive health. Supplements are marketed for aging skin, depression, infertility, muscle strength, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, and many other conditions….
Beyond Replacement: Hormone Optimization | Part 2
Your Gut & Nervous System
The Hidden Hormone Influencers
Why does hormone therapy fail? Your gut and nervous system control how hormones are processed, metabolized, and eliminated—not just your hormone levels.
Beyond Replacement: Hormone Optimization | Part 1
The Hormone Hierarchy
Why Your Adrenals, Thyroid & Insulin Come First
Most practitioners do hormone replacement, not optimization. Learn why addressing cortisol, insulin, and thyroid first changes everything for lasting hormonal health.
Your Hormones in Harmony | Part 4
Thyroid: The Conductor of Your Hormone Symphony
For all your hormones to play in harmony, they need to pay attention to the conductor of the symphony. That conductor is your thyroid.
Your Hormones in Harmony | Part 1
The Hormone Hierarchy
Prioritizing Hormone Interventions to Harmonize Your Health
The hormone hierarchy allows us to address the preceding factors first — those that affect other hormones beneath them in the hierarchy.
Concussions | Part 2
The Concussion Symptoms No One Connects to a Head Injury
Your Gut, Heart, Hormones, & Mood
You rested, the scan was clean, and everyone moved on. But your sleep, your gut, your heart, and your mood never came back. Those scattered symptoms may all trace back to one head injury, and to the single nerve that wires your brain to the rest of your body.
Peptides & Biological Signaling | Part 4
The Peptide Paradox: How Restricting Safe Clinical Access Made the Wild West Bigger
When the system narrows the legitimate path, demand doesn't disappear. It just moves somewhere nobody can track it.
The FDA restricted 19 peptides in September 2023. One month later, tirzepatide was approved for weight loss. A physician who has been using these compounds for 20 years explains what actually happened.
Medical Blind Spots | Part 2
Medical Gaslighting
When Medicine Says It’s All in Your Head
If you’ve ever been told your symptoms are stress, anxiety, or “just in your head,” you’ve experienced what Dr. Hartman calls medical gaslighting. It’s not manipulation. It’s a structural problem in how medicine handles uncertainty. And it has a pattern.
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