“My Labs Are Normal… So Why Do I Feel So Bad?” She sat in front of me frustrated and exhausted. She was 42.Her cycles were still coming.Her labs were “normal.” But she felt anything but normal. She was tired all the time. Gaining weight despite doing “all the right things.” Sleeping poorly. Snapping at people […]
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🦋 It Started With a Pair of Slippers It was a chilly spring morning when Heather realized something wasn’t right. She’d cranked the heat, wrapped herself in a fuzzy robe, and still felt like her bones were ice. “You’re always cold lately,” her husband said as she slipped on her third pair of wool socks
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“I swear I’m doing everything right—why is my body betraying me?” That’s what one of my patients told me through tears in her first visit. She was eating well, exercising, and cutting back on wine—but the scale was climbing, her energy was tanked, and her belly felt constantly bloated. This story is way more common
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