Clinical Insights · Guides
Guides
A great deal of what I do in practice is translation. A woman arrives with a folder of results and symptoms that are real and patterned, and nobody has connected the two. These guides are that work, written down — so you can read your own results, and walk into an appointment able to ask specific questions and follow the answers.
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Reading Your Cycle
A naturopathic guide to understanding your hormones, your labs, and what your body has been telling you all along.
Instant download. Educational material, not medical advice, and reading it does not make you my patient. I am licensed to provide individualised care to patients located in Washington State only — wherever you live, this guide was written to be brought to your own clinician.
Inside the guide
If you have been told your labs are normal and you still don’t feel like yourself, this guide was written for you. Sixteen chapters take you through the cycle itself, then test by test through the labs — what each one measures, when in your cycle it has to be drawn, what it can tell you and what it cannot. Then the patterns worth recognising, and the foundations underneath them.
It is careful about the difference between what guidelines recommend and what I prefer in my own practice, and it says which is which every time. Where the evidence is thin, it says so in the same sentence.
And it is a toolkit, not only a book. Five worksheets run through it and every field is typeable — fill them in on a laptop or a phone, or print them and use a pen. The last is a single page you hand to your clinician, designed to be read in ninety seconds.
What’s inside
- 64 pages, sixteen chapters in four parts
- Tool 01 · Your cycle map
- Tool 02 · Your cycle notes
- Tool 03 · Your symptom pattern
- Tool 04 · Your lab request sheet
- Tool 05 · Your one-page summary
- Every field fillable on any device
- 92 sources, cited in full
Who it’s for
- Results nobody has explained
- Irregular or absent cycles
- Wanting to know whether you ovulate
- Heavy periods
- A PMOS or PCOS diagnosis
- Early perimenopause
- An appointment coming up
In preparation
Two more are being written to the same standard.
In preparation
Understanding Your Digestion
Takes the same approach to the gut — what each test measures, what it can and cannot show, and where food comes before supplements.
In preparation
The Preconception Workup
Covers the twelve months before trying, for both partners.
Subscribers to Clinical Insights hear first when each one is ready.
Three ways to use them
You are in Washington and want me to look at your own results.
Bring the worksheets you have filled in. Consultations begin with a free fifteen-minute conversation to work out whether I am the right person to help — it is not a sales call. Book a free 15 minutes.
You already have a clinician, wherever you live.
Then the toolkit is the useful part, and it was written to be handed over. A well-prepared appointment with the clinician who already knows you is usually better than a new one.
You are not ready for an appointment yet.
A few more cycles of data will make any eventual appointment better rather than worse. Keep charting, and read along — Clinical Insights takes one question like the ones in these guides and covers it properly. It is free.
The monthly letter
Clinical Insights Monthly
One letter a month on one question — what a test measures, what it cannot answer, and what to ask for. So you walk into your next appointment knowing which question is yours to ask.