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Resources
A small, curated set of things worth your time. I add to this occasionally, when I have something genuinely useful. I would rather give you four good resources than forty.
Free guides
For women
The Stress–Sex Hormone Connection
How stress physiology and sex hormones interact in midlife, and why addressing either one alone tends to stall.
For clinicians
Evidence-Graded Supplement Guide for Vasomotor Symptoms
Dosing, evidence quality, and interactions.
Watch
Be your own best first doctor
TEDx Chicago: What if you could be your own best first doctor? Viewed more than a million times.
Listen — Next Level Health
A Northwestern Medicine podcast I host on integrative approaches to everyday health questions.
Cooking Up Health
Medical students in the kitchen
A culinary medicine course I founded in 2016 that puts medical students in a kitchen alongside Chicago public school children. It has been studied, published, and adapted by other institutions through a train-the-trainer model. If you are building something similar, the published curriculum work is a reasonable place to start.
Looking for clinical care?
I see patients at the Osher Center
I see patients at the Osher Center for Integrative Health at Northwestern Medicine. Appointments, clinical questions, and care are all handled there — not through this site.
Selected publications
A few papers worth a look
An Integrative Approach to HPA Axis Dysfunction: From Recognition to Recovery
Proposed Nutrition Competencies for Medical Students and Physician Trainees
Lifestyle Medicine and Vasomotor Symptoms: An Analytic Review
Cooking Up Health: A Novel Culinary Medicine and Service-Learning Elective
Developing and Implementing Core Competencies for Integrative Medicine Fellowships
Selected press