menopause

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Women's Health
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April 11, 2026

Menopause Symptoms Aren’t a Hormone Problem—They’re a Metabolic Problem

Menopause Symptoms Weren’t Always Common In the early 2000s, I was living in Kauai and working at the Kalaheo clinic as a family doc. At the time, I didn’t realize it—but I had a window into the past, a perspective on menopause that’s now almost impossible to find. Among my patients who were born and raised on the island, mostly women of Filipino, Japanese, and mixed Asian ancestry, menopause was typically uneventful. Their periods didn’t taper into years of unpredictable irregularity, miserable heavy bleeding, or endless spotting. One day, it was simply gone. No hot flashes. No insomnia. No mood…

Menopause Summit 2022 Promo
Anti Aging
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June 11, 2022

Menopause, weight gain, and metabolic health.

Going through menopause is miserable for millions of women. But it can be (almost) a breeze! if you eat to optimize your metabolic health. In fact, while I was living in Hawaii, I noticed a particular group of patients breezed through menopause. Discover their secrets!

Reverse T3 Hibernation Effect
Low Carb Diet
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February 20, 2012

How Your Diet Affects Hormones

The epidemic of obesity is also an epidemic of hormone malfunction, including thyroid, testosterone, estrogen, growth hormone, cortisol, and more.
If you eat a Standard American Diet, not only are your fat-burn enzymes likely to be totally blocked, your hormonal systems fail to communicate properly and the effect is like a kind of accellerated aging.

Children's Health
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August 11, 2010

Early Puberty: What does it mean for tomorrow’s women?

Abnormal sexual development from unclear cause, environmental changes suspected. According to a new study published in the journal Pediatrics, 1 in 10 girls in second and third grade, of Caucasian descent, showed stage 2 breast development (small mounds of tissue under the nipple area), which is considered the first sign of sexual maturation. This is an increase of two hundred percent since the 1980s. For African American girls, the increase is even more alarming, with nearly one in four 7 and 8 year-olds showing the early breast signs. The causes are unclear, but suspects include: Pthallates, compounds that make their…

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