Medical disclaimer

The short version: this is education, not medical advice. I'm not your doctor, I don't know your history, and nothing here is tailored to you. Talk to a clinician before you change anything.

What this site is

I write about menopause, hormones, strength, protein, and staying sharp after fifty because I've researched it hard and because I've lived a fair amount of it myself. My background is a BS in Medical Technology, so I can read a study and I know when one is being oversold. That's genuinely useful, and it's also the whole of it.

What I'm doing here is handing you the research, the questions worth asking, and my own experience, so you can walk into an appointment better prepared than I was.

What this site is not

It isn't medical advice. Not general advice, and definitely not advice for you specifically.

I can't examine you. I don't know your history, your labs, your medications, your family risk, or the six other things your clinician would weigh before saying yes or no. Two people with the same symptoms can need opposite answers, and I have no way to tell which one you are.

Nothing here creates a clinician relationship between us. Reading this site, emailing me, or replying to a newsletter doesn't make me responsible for your care, and I can't take that on.

Please don't do this

Don't start, stop, or change a medication, a dose, a supplement, or a treatment because of something you read here. That includes things I write about positively and things I write about skeptically.

If a page here disagrees with your own clinician, that isn't a reason to overrule them. It's a reason to ask them about it. They can see you and I can't.

If it's urgent

If you're having a medical emergency, stop reading and call your local emergency number, or go to an emergency room. Don't email me and wait.

If you're in crisis in the United States, call or text 988 for the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline.

On my own story

I write about my own health in the first person, on purpose, because the sanitized version helps nobody. I write about my own HRT, my own testosterone, my own ApoB, my own use of Mounjaro, and living with an APOE4-homozygous result, because the tidy version of all this helps nobody.

What worked for me is a data point, not a protocol. Read it as one person's experience, which is exactly what it is.

Where the research comes from

I cite what I'm drawing on, and I link to it where I can, so you can check my reasoning rather than taking my word for it. Research moves, and some of what's here will age badly. When I find something I've written that's since been overturned, I fix it rather than leaving it up.

If you spot something here that's wrong or out of date, please write to me at [email protected]. I'd genuinely rather know.

Last updated 2026-08-08.