I’ve spent over forty years in healthcare — starting as an RN in emergency rooms, moving into naturopathic medicine, and landing in Silicon Valley at exactly the moment microbiome research was rewriting what we thought we knew about human health and early AI was making it possible! I’ve worked with underserved Indigenous communities on Vancouver Island and with high-performing women in boardrooms who couldn’t figure out why their bodies had stopped cooperating.

What I’ve learned across all of it is that the medical system is exceptional at managing disease and largely unprepared for what happens to women in midlife. The fatigue, the weight that won’t move, the brain fog, the mood shifts — these aren’t mysteries. They’re biology. And when women understand the mechanism behind what’s happening, they stop blaming themselves and start making decisions that actually work.