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LWell Nutrition Registered Dietitian-Nutritionists & healthcare partners offering Medical Nutrition Therapy & more!

LWell's Registered Dietitian-Nutritionists offer Medical Nutrition Therapy, Diabetes Self-Management, Group Nutrition Classes & Online Wellness Coaching.

08/27/2026

The good people over at Pinto Wellness invited me on the great podcast, and we had a lot of fun. Get the scoop from the expert side about how to improve your nourishment while on weight loss medication..

A huge thank you to our amazing community for your vote of appreciation and recognition! LWell took home best weight los...
07/17/2026

A huge thank you to our amazing community for your vote of appreciation and recognition! LWell took home best weight loss clinic on the peninsula and best dietitian services overall last night!

Just a plank break at work today
07/10/2026

Just a plank break at work today

07/08/2026

One of the most reliable signs your period is coming isn’t physical.
It’s suddenly becoming emotionally attached to things that normally wouldn’t bother you.
The avocado.
The commercial.
The text message that simply said “okay.”
The sweater that won’t fit over the hanger.
And while we joke about it (because honestly it’s funny), worsening PMS isn’t usually random.
Changes in progesterone, blood sugar regulation, stress resilience, inflammation, sleep quality, and estrogen metabolism can all influence how dramatic that emotional roller coaster feels each month.
If your PMS seems to be getting worse over time, your body may be trying to tell you something.
Or maybe the avocado was just really disappointing. 🥑😂

07/07/2026

1️⃣Your productivity and creativity are dramatically higher in the first half of your cycle than the second.
Estrogen's effects on dopamine receptor sensitivity and serotonin transport mean the follicular phase genuinely is a cognitively enhanced state for most women. If the difference between your best and worst cognitive weeks maps closely to your cycle, your hormones are running your calendar.

2️⃣Your relationship dynamics change significantly in the late luteal phase.
Irritability, reduced emotional bandwidth, and sensitivity to criticism or conflict in the week before the period are driven by the neurochemical impact of declining estrogen and progesterone. If your most difficult relational moments cluster in a predictable window every month, the hormonal environment is part of that picture.

3️⃣Your food preferences shift noticeably across the cycle.
The strong pull toward carbohydrates in the luteal phase is driven by progesterone-driven insulin resistance and reduced serotonin precursor availability in a lower-estrogen environment. If your eating feels out of character in the second half of the cycle, the biology is leading that change.

4️⃣Your libido has a cycle of its own that is independent of anything happening in your relationship.
Testosterone peaks at ovulation. Estrogen drives confidence and verbal fluency in the follicular phase. Progesterone's sedating effect and declining estrogen in the late luteal phase typically reduce libido. If your interest in intimacy is strongly cyclical and your partner has noticed before you did, your hormones have a very consistent opinion about timing.

5️⃣Your anxiety, irritability, or emotional reactivity is significantly worse at predictable times.
If you can calendar your hardest emotional days with reasonable accuracy, that is not random. That is a hormonal pattern, and patterns have biology underneath them.

None of these are problems to eliminate. They are patterns to understand. And understanding them changes what you do with them.

This is something we see in the patients when the hormonal picture has been properly addressed.❌Not as a guarantee.✅As a...
07/06/2026

This is something we see in the patients when the hormonal picture has been properly addressed.

❌Not as a guarantee.
✅As a realistic picture of what becomes available.

🎉A cycle that arrives predictably and passes without the week of dreading it in advance.

🎉A luteal phase that is qualitatively different from what it used to be. Not painless or symptom-free necessarily. But proportionate. A slower week rather than a write-off week. The mood shift present but manageable. The body familiar rather than foreign.

🎉Energy that does not require constant management and scheduling around. Not perfect energy. Consistent enough energy that the unpredictability stops being a background organizing principle of the week.

🎉Sleep that actually restores. Not just hours, but depth. The kind of sleep that makes the next day start from a reasonable baseline rather than a deficit.

🎉A relationship with the cycle that is informational rather than adversarial. The ability to read the monthly report and know what it is saying. To recognize the early-follicular clarity, to use the mid-cycle energy for the things that need it, to honor the late-luteal slower pace without guilt or frustration.

None of this requires achieving hormonal perfection. It requires having enough information about your specific biology to work with it rather than against it.

That is what investigation makes possible. And that is what this work is for.

07/05/2026

🔥Managing hormonal symptoms without understanding their root is like turning off a smoke alarm without finding the smoke.

It works while you are doing it. The symptom is suppressed. The experience is more tolerable. And none of the underlying biology changes.

When women come to our dietitans, we start by investigating.

I run the testing that tells me what the hormonal environment actually looks like:
→the estrogen metabolite picture
→the luteal-phase progesterone
→the cortisol rhythm
→the thyroid beyond TSH
→the gut's contribution to estrogen recirculation
→the methylation status that governs how the whole system clears and synthesizes.

And then the protocol is built from that specific data.

👀Sometimes the investigation shows something completely different from what the symptom history suggested.

🔎A woman with what presents as classic estrogen dominance turns out to have the bulk of her picture driven by impaired thyroid conversion making progesterone synthesis insufficient.

🔎A woman with adrenal PCOS symptoms has been trying low-carbohydrate protocols that are relevant for insulin-resistant PCOS and have done very little for hers.

The investigation does not replace anything that is genuinely working. But it adds the layer that most management strategies were never designed to provide: the why.

07/04/2026

PCOS is not one thing. And treating it like one thing is why so many women manage symptoms for years without actually improving the root of the pattern.

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