The Health Detective Blog
From Guesswork to Precision Healing
The Symptom You’ve Managed So Long You Stopped Questioning It
For nearly 25 years, I colored my hair. Browns, auburns, all variations on what used to be my natural brown hair. It was fun, artistic, and also quite a commitment to the coloring process. After a while, there came to be one big problem. I had a white streak at the…
I Could Calculate Electricity. I Couldn’t Feel It Until Acupuncture.
I used to be able to calculate electricity perfectly. But I had never once felt it. In engineering school, I aced Electricity and Magnetism. And Circuits I and II. Voltage, current, magnetic flux. I could calculate all of it, perfectly, on paper. When I was in my late…
How Your Body Answers Without Needles or Bloodwork
If someone told you there was a way to ask your body exactly what it needed, no needles, no bloodwork, done from your own home, you would probably have questions. Good. Questions are exactly where clarity begins. I Teach What I Have Lived I teach what I have lived,…
Why More Health Data Won’t Help You Heal
I test as a way of life. In college, I added a full extra year to find out firsthand where I did my best work as an engineer. One of my co-op jobs involved me working in front of a giant box monitor, using early days 3D modeling software to rotate gyroscope parts for…
When Your Labs Are “Fine” But You Still Don’t Feel Like Yourself
Something I hear often: she has been told her labs look fine. She nods and says thank you. And then she gets in her car and sits there for a minute, because she still doesn’t feel like herself, and she doesn’t know what to do next. The Gap Between “Normal Labs” and…
How Bioenergetic Testing Helps Women Restore Energy, Sleep, and Joy
A client called me recently and said her physician wanted to meet me. After one year of working together, all her labs were in the green. She was down to two medications at very low doses. Thirty pounds released. Her physician called her progress remarkable. She is…
Why Generic Health Protocols Keep Failing Women (And What Actually Works)
When I was eight years old, I had a very specific afternoon routine. There was a maple tree next to the pond at my grandmother’s house near the beach in New Jersey. In spring, it dropped whirligig seeds that spun down through the air and landed everywhere. I loved…
Why Following Someone Else’s Health Protocol Keeps You Lost
I have a terrible sense of direction. Always have. Growing up in New Jersey, I mastered the jughandle. If you’ve driven in New Jersey, you know exactly what I mean. To turn left, you first turn right, loop around, and come back to where you needed to go. I became an…
Your Sugar Cravings Aren’t a Willpower Problem. They’re a Signal.
She had tried everything. Low sugar diets. Cutting out refined carbs. Eating more protein. Going to bed earlier so the late-night cravings wouldn’t hit as hard. She was disciplined in every other area of her life. She couldn’t understand why this one thing kept…