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Awaken Women's Health Expert, personalized care for women in mid-life. Hormone replacement therapy & weight loss services.

Sound familiar? 🤔 These questions are some of the most common concerns women have when they come see me. 👩‍⚕️If the many...
21/08/2026

Sound familiar? 🤔 These questions are some of the most common concerns women have when they come see me. 👩‍⚕️

If the many messages you hear on Instagram have you all twisted up - What's the truth? What's worth my money? What will really help my symptoms? - give me a call. 📲

Or schedule a no-cost discovery meeting on my website, awakenwomenshealth.com. 🌅

Seeing patients in WA and by telehealth in UT. 💻 Open-minded, evidence-based, and able to spend enough time with you to dig deep into your symptoms, decide what labs and interventions you really need, and optimize your health. 💜

✨Everyone talks about estrogen in perimenopause - but progesterone is an important part of the story, too.As ovulation b...
17/07/2026

✨Everyone talks about estrogen in perimenopause - but progesterone is an important part of the story, too.

As ovulation becomes less consistent, progesterone production declines. At the same time, estrogen may fluctuate unpredictably. These hormonal changes may contribute to sleep disruption, changing periods, irritability, and that familiar "wired but tired" feeling.

For some women, micronized progesterone can improve symptoms as well as providing protection for the uterine lining - but it isn't right for everyone. Dose, timing, and route should be individualized. ✨

📍In-person care in Gig Harbor, WA
💻Telehealth in WA and UT
🔗Schedule through the link in bio

Here's why your clinician may want to calculate your risk of heart disease as part of your hormone therapy evaluation. F...
13/07/2026

Here's why your clinician may want to calculate your risk of heart disease as part of your hormone therapy evaluation.

Facts based on our current knowledge base:
💔Heart disease is still the number one killer of women.
💜In women age 50-59, use of hormone therapy has been associated with a lower risk of heart attack, stroke, invasive breast cancer, fracture risk, and death over the next decade of life.
💔Starting hormone therapy after age 60 may increase risk of heart disease.
💜We have a new and improved risk calculator called PREVENT.

For many years the medical establishment didn't pay nearly enough attention to women, and that includes cardiology. Fortunately things are changing, and every year more and more guidelines and studies are published trying to tease out the best way treat women at risk for cardiovascular disease. ✨

We still don't have a perfect system for telling a women with some risk factors for heart disease - like obesity, high cholesterol, high blood pressure - whether or not hormone therapy is going to be good for her heart. But here's some steps to get us started.😁

As always, you deserve a nuanced conversation with a healthcare professional about the risks of and benefits of hormone therapy for YOU. ✨

Here's my soapbox: never listen to anyone selling you one cure for all your ailments. ✨ALL the symptoms of menopause can...
30/06/2026

Here's my soapbox: never listen to anyone selling you one cure for all your ailments. ✨

ALL the symptoms of menopause can have causes other than hormones. Your hormonal shifts may be the most LIKELY cause, but don't dismiss other possibilities. Listen to your body and work with a knowledgeable clinician. 🩺

Most people will feel much better when their treatment plan is more than just HRT. 👯Exercise helps pretty much everything; diet matters; supplements can be useful; and so can other medications! 💊

Studies have shown that midlife weight gain is best addressed with hormone therapy + a GLP-1 + diet + exercise. 🏋️

This is how I practice. If you're looking for a knowledgeable clinician, checkout awakenwomenshealth.com. 💜

Up on the blog: everything you need to know about protecting your bones as you head into - and through - perimenopause. ...
22/06/2026

Up on the blog: everything you need to know about protecting your bones as you head into - and through - perimenopause. 🦴Link in profile! 🔗

I wish I could have shared the experience of giving my lecture "Perimenopause 101" at Charm School Creative with all of ...
15/06/2026

I wish I could have shared the experience of giving my lecture "Perimenopause 101" at Charm School Creative with all of you last week! 📖It was a joyous collection of women gathering to both seek knowledge and community, and I was grateful to be part of it 💜.

I wanted to share the main points/slides with you all, so here there are - if I have to drill down the top 10 things I think EVERY woman should know about perimenopause, this is it. 😍

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