Fortify Health Insights
Written by: Meredith Paci, Functional Health Coach
You are in your 40's....maybe 43, maybe 49, and maybe even 40. Maybe it was your sleep that sleep broke about eight months ago and you cannot point to why. Maybe it was your ability to cope with all that life is throwing at you. Perhaps it was you...
Written by: Meredith Paci, Functional Health Coach
There is a reflex in medicine that sounds responsible, yet arguably, it's not: if it hasn't been proven in a randomized controlled trial, treat it as unproven, full stop, no further reasoning allowed. I understand where the reflex comes from. I re...
Written by: Meredith Paci Functional Health Coach
I was talking to one of my mentees about a client of hers who had this exact experience, and honestly, it still gets me fired up every time I hear it. I find it atrocious.
I told her about a client of mine who had the identical experience. My clie...
Written by Sarah Bishop, MS Exercise Science, Functional Health Coach
A coach in our group mentorship brought us a case. Her client was 45, newly onboarded, and eager to come off hormonal birth control. She had been reading about hormone therapy online and wanted to know where she stood.
That ques...
Written by: Meredith Paci Functional Health Coach
What are you afraid of is a question I come back to often, one I've been asking long before this year. I land on it during any day, week, or season that starts to feel discombobulated, when overwhelm creeps in and I can't even name what I'm overwhel...
Written by: Meredith Paci Functional Health Coach
A reader wrote in via our anonymous form "Ask Fortify here." with a question:
Last year I had a hysterectomy with one ovary removed due to stage 3 deep infiltrating endometriosis, along with complete surgical removal of all endo including a bowel ...
Written by: Meredith Paci Functional Health Coach
This is part two. There is a two-part series here answering a reader question submitted through our anonymous form. If you have not read part one, [it's linked here]. It discusses the nuts and bolts of evidence on estradiol, progesterone, and testos...
