Dr. Brittany Schamerhorn, ND

Dr. Brittany Schamerhorn, ND Passionate about your health, happiness and success

Nobody hands you an end date when you start hormone therapy, and most women assume that is an oversight.It is not. There...
08/28/2026

Nobody hands you an end date when you start hormone therapy, and most women assume that is an oversight.

It is not. There is currently no recommended stop date for hormone therapy. No age you are supposed to come off by. That absence is deliberate. The decision was never meant to run on a clock.

What it runs on is an ongoing risk-benefit conversation. If it is still helping and you want to stay on it, there is currently no guideline telling you to stop. You continue while the benefits outweigh the risks.

The same logic runs the other way. There is no minimum. If you want to come off, you do not owe hormone therapy a set number of years first.

So the useful question was never how long. It is why we started in the first place. That is what tells us whether the reason still stands, and it is the conversation that decides when you stop.

And after the transition, there are often other ways to hold onto some of what hormones were giving you.

DM me if you want to talk through why you started and whether you still want to be on it.

08/27/2026

The cookie at 3pm is not a character flaw. It is a scheduling problem that started six hours earlier.

When I see that afternoon crash, the first place I look is breakfast. Usually it was not a balanced meal. Not much fat, not much fiber, not much protein.

Here is what happens next. A really high-carb meal takes your blood sugar up and then brings it down. There is no protein and no fiber in the mix to delay the glucose, so nothing slows that fall. By mid-afternoon you are underneath it, reaching for the fastest thing in the building.

The fix is unglamorous. More protein or more fiber in the morning, in a meal that also has some fat in it.

A good starting recommendation is 20 to 30 g of protein per meal, three times a day.

Save this and start with breakfast tomorrow.

The part that gets me is not the label. It is what happens after it. She gets told she is too young, and then her sympto...
08/25/2026

The part that gets me is not the label. It is what happens after it. She gets told she is too young, and then her symptoms get put down with it.

That is the sequence. She raises what she is experiencing. Somebody decides she does not fit the category. And because she does not fit it, the symptoms stop being taken seriously.

But the symptoms are still there. Your body does not care what stage we call it.

What I care about is your symptoms and your capacity. You deserve to feel good, and to have a good capacity, regardless of your stage or your age.

At 38 we might be seeing changes that deserve support, whether or not we label you perimenopausal. The label can stay unsettled. The support does not have to wait for it.

Share this with someone who was told she is too young.

The women who tell me fasting is easy are almost always describing something else.Fasting is an additional stressor. If ...
08/24/2026

The women who tell me fasting is easy are almost always describing something else.

Fasting is an additional stressor. If your body is already carrying a high stress load, adding another stimulus does not create the result you were promised.

The second gets said less. Fasting makes it very hard to hit your protein and fiber. You removed a meal from a schedule already tight on both.

The third is the one I want you to sit with. Fasting often feels easy because caffeine is doing the work. You skip breakfast, you run on coffee, your appetite goes quiet, and you read that quiet as discipline.

Then the afternoon arrives and you are hungrier than you have been all day. The control you had at 10am is gone.

Your life was supporting the appetite suppression. That is a different thing from your body coping with it.

Save this if fasting has been making everything harder.

08/23/2026

Good things take time! Sometimes patience is better than a pivot. The magic sauce is knowing when 👌🏻

08/23/2026

Good things take time! Sometimes patience is a better choice than pivot. The magic sauce is know when 👌🏻

This week’s breathwork class raised $1,000 for fire relief.When I asked Jen Newman | Somatic Mentor if she would donate ...
08/22/2026

This week’s breathwork class raised $1,000 for fire relief.

When I asked Jen Newman | Somatic Mentor if she would donate part of the class proceeds to the cause, she said yes, and then offered all of them. pranifykelowna heard what we were doing and gave us their space. Kiwi Pharmacy offered to match our contribution. And then you registered, showed up, and breathed for neighbours you will never meet!

When I opened Ivy, I wanted it to be more than a clinic. I wanted a place where people feel taken care of and welcome, and where the space does something bigger than the appointments inside it.

Seeing it come together in one room makes the effort worth it.

Thank you to each and every one of you 💕💕

07/11/2026

Just finished wrapping up two days at the Pink Skirt Summit, in a room filled with the most epic women.

The thread across both days was integrity. Not the version that sounds good on a slide. The real one, where how you show up matches what you actually believe, and you stop performing a version of yourself. When those line up, confidence stops being something you manufacture. It is the only version of success that does not quietly cost you everything to hold up.

Here is what I kept thinking about. When you are out of alignment, it shows up in your body. Your sleep, your energy, your hormones, how you feel in your own skin. I see it every week. The achievement you are chasing does not mean much if getting there wrecks your health and leaves you empty at the end of it. Staying in alignment is how you reach the big things without running yourself into the ground to get there.

Huge shoutout to the amazing speakers for sharing their wisdom and inspiration.💕💕

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