Fortify Health Insights

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...

Written by: Meredith Paci | Functional Health Coach

A female in her late thirties wrote into the anonymous question form asking two things: what are the actual benefits of hormone therapy (menopausal hormone therapy and TRT), and what delivery methods are available?

Before I get into the answers, ...

Written by: Meredith Paci | Functional Health Coach

If you have been following us for any length of time, none of this will shock you. But it should sharpen how you think about it.

On May 12th, 2026, PCOS was formally renamed to PMOS, Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome. Published in The Lanc...

Written by: Meredith Paci | Functional Health Coach 

If you've been following along, you probably already know where my head has been.

When I flew to be with my father earlier this year, after the traffic light, after the diagnosis, after all of it, one of the many things that hit me hard was not ...

Written by: Meredith Paci, Functional Health Coach

Annoyed — that’s probably the most accurate way to describe how many women feel when their body starts to change in midlife and nothing they try seems to make a difference. Open up social media and you’ll see the pushback:

“Metabolism doesn’t s...