Advanced Women's Health Clinics

Advanced Women's Health Clinics Advanced Women’s Health Clinics is a premier medical clinic that provides evidence based treatments. https://linktr.ee/advancedwomenshealthkingston

07/28/2026

Dr. Sasha became a naturopathic doctor because she knows what it feels like to sit in an appointment with real concerns and be told everything is normal. That experience is the foundation of how she practices — by slowing down, listening to the full story, and connecting the dots between hormones, metabolism, gut health, stress, and sleep.

Her goal is simple. She wants you to leave her office actually understanding what is happening in your body, not just with a list of supplements and a follow-up date.

She works with women navigating PCOS and PMOS, fertility challenges, insulin resistance, PMS, endometriosis, and the perimenopause and menopause transition.

Free strategy calls available now. Link in bio to book.

Dr. Sasha Monteiro, ND | Advanced Women's Health
📍 Toronto West

07/27/2026

How much protein do you actually need? It depends on more than your body weight.

In a young, metabolically healthy person, the muscles are primed and ready after a workout. They absorb protein efficiently, the signals are clear, and less protein is needed to trigger muscle growth.

But when there is chronic inflammation, insulin resistance, or aging in the picture, the pattern shifts. There are excess nutrients already circulating in the bloodstream that the body is not using efficiently. And paradoxically, you actually need more protein at a meal to force it into the muscle, not less.

So the one gram per pound rule is a useful starting point for healthy people. It is not a universal prescription. Your actual requirement depends on your inflammatory state, your metabolic health, your age, and how much circulating excess is already sitting in your system.

This is why we test before we prescribe. The answer is different for everyone.

Full episode 90 in bio.

PCOS has a new official name: PMOS: Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome.That sounds complicated. The idea is simple...
07/24/2026

PCOS has a new official name: PMOS: Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome.

That sounds complicated. The idea is simple.
This condition was never just about ovaries or cysts. It is about how your whole body handles a hormone called insulin. When insulin stops working properly, your body makes more and more of it trying to keep up. And when that happens, a whole range of things start to go wrong: irregular periods, acne, fatigue, cravings, hair growth, weight that will not shift.

1 in 8 women have PMOS. A lot of them were handed a birth control pill and told that was the plan. The pill can help with bleeding and acne. It cannot fix the insulin problem underneath. Which is why so many women took it for years and still did not feel right.

At Advanced Women's Health, nothing changed when the name did. We were never treating this as just an o***y condition. We have always looked at insulin, thyroid, stress hormones, and metabolism. We have always asked why — not just what.

The name finally matches what the condition is. And if you have never had anyone look at the full picture, that is exactly where we start.

Dr. Sasha Monteiro, ND | AWH Toronto West
Book a complimentary PMOS assessment call at advancedwomenshealth.ca

07/23/2026

We turned the mic around on Dr. Sarah. 🎙️

Episode 90 just dropped, and it is different from anything we have done before. No structure, no slides, no prepared talking points. Just Dr. Sam firing questions at Dr. Sarah until she runs out of answers.

(Spoiler: she did not run out of answers.)

Here is a taste of what is coming:

Why your probiotic might actually be making your gut symptoms worse. Why a 10-minute walk after eating is one of the highest-yield habits you can build. Why micromanaging your post-workout protein shake while skipping breakfast protein is completely backwards. And the greens gummy bear conversation that her team has been waiting for her to say out loud.

Drop a question below if you want it answered in the next AMA. 👇

Dr. Sarah usually asks the questions. This time, we turned the mic around.Episode 90 is an AMA: Dr. Sam from our Brookly...
07/23/2026

Dr. Sarah usually asks the questions. This time, we turned the mic around.

Episode 90 is an AMA: Dr. Sam from our Brooklyn/Whitby location fires questions at Dr. Sarah, and Dr. Sarah does not hold back. No slides, no structure, just the real answers patients want and clinicians actually give in the room.

This format is new, and we want to know if you like it. If you have questions you want Dr. Sarah to answer in the next AMA, send them in on Instagram.

Link in bio to listen.

07/21/2026

Perimenopause and menopause are not something to just get through.

Dr. Maryellen Tedeschi, ND sees this season of life as a window of opportunity. A chance to understand what your body truly needs, reclaim your health, and build something that lasts well beyond these years.

She is the clinic lead at our Ancaster location and works with women who are ready to stop running on empty and start building real, lasting change.

Her approach starts with a simple belief: you cannot give from an empty cup. Her job is to make sure yours is full.

New patients welcome. Link in bio to book a consult.

Dr. Maryellen Tedeschi, ND | Advanced Women's Health
📍 Ancaster, ON

07/20/2026

There are two types of fat. And they do not respond to the same things.

Subcutaneous fat sits under your skin: hips, thighs, abdomen. Visceral fat sits around your organs. During periods of rapid hormone fluctuation, your body shifts from depositing subcutaneous fat to depositing visceral fat. And that is when everything you used to do stops working.

Caloric restriction alone is not as effective on visceral fat. It tends to cause muscle loss instead. And resistance training, which Dr. Sarah deeply loves and recommends for everyone, is also less effective in isolation for this pattern. Women who spent their twenties and thirties focused mainly on lifting are not going to see the same results from that approach anymore.

The type of fat has changed. The approach has to change with it.

Full episode 89 in bio.

Are you tired all the time even after a full night of sleep?Fatigue is one of the most searched health concerns among wo...
07/17/2026

Are you tired all the time even after a full night of sleep?

Fatigue is one of the most searched health concerns among women and one of the most dismissed.

"Your labs are normal."
"It's probably just stress."
"You're a mom, this is just life now."

But persistent exhaustion is not something you have to accept. It is your body asking for attention.

There are eight reasons we commonly see in the clinic that explain why so many women feel this way.

Any one of these is enough to leave you exhausted. When several of them happen at once, it can feel like your energy has simply disappeared and will never come back.

It can come back. Finding the reason is where that starts.

The full blog is at the link in bio.

If you are ready to actually figure out what is going on, Dr. Ally is accepting new patients at our Port Credit clinic.

Book a free 15-minute consultation to get started.

07/16/2026

Perimenopause is not a moment. It is a window of up to 10 years.

And menopause? That is 12 full months without a period. Not 11 months and 20 days and then, as Dr. Sarah puts it, the comeback tour. If that bleed happens, the clock resets.

During that 10-year window, hormones are doing something most women have never been told: they can actually spike very high in the early phases before they start dropping. Estrogen eventually falls. Progesterone drops the whole time. Testosterone drops. And DHEA, the hormone Dr. Sarah calls the secret hormone of resilience, drops too.

Sleep disruption, mood shifts, anxiety, hot flashes, abdominal weight gain, new onset acne, hair fall: these are not separate problems. They are the same hormonal pattern showing up in different places.

And it is not only perimenopause that triggers this. Going on or off a hormonal IUD, going on or off the pill, and postpartum hormonal shifts can all cause the same type of fat deposition change.

Full episode 89 in bio.

What used to work no longer works. And nobody can tell you why.Episode 89 is the final video in the Metabolic Rehab seri...
07/16/2026

What used to work no longer works. And nobody can tell you why.

Episode 89 is the final video in the Metabolic Rehab series, and it is for every woman who has been told that belly fat, exhaustion, and mood changes in perimenopause are just something to get used to.

They are not.

Dr. Sarah covers what is actually happening to your body during perimenopause and why the fat storage pattern changes, what that means for how you need to eat and move, and what a real metabolic workup for this stage of life actually looks like.

Here is what this episode covers:

What perimenopause actually means and how long it can last (up to 10 years before your last period)

The difference between subcutaneous fat and visceral fat, and why visceral fat does not respond to caloric restriction or resistance training alone

Why can rapid hormone fluctuation also cause this pattern postpartum, and when going on or off hormonal contraceptives

DHEA: the hormone of resilience that is almost never tested and is almost always dropping

What a full metabolic workup looks like for this pattern: DHEA, morning cortisol, two-hour insulin and glucose challenge, inflammatory markers, lipids, and liver panel

Why losing muscle during weight loss is a serious long-term risk and how to avoid it

The visceral adiposity index calculator on the AWH website (linked below) that tells you with high accuracy whether visceral fat is part of your picture

This is the full picture nobody gave you. Link in bio to listen.

Also: if you have not listened to episodes 86, 87, and 88, start there. The four metabolic patterns build on each other.

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Kingston, ON
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