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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.

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For clinicians

Evidence-Graded Supplement Guide for Vasomotor Symptoms

Dosing, evidence quality, and interactions.

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Watch

Be your own best first doctor

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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.

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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.

cookinguphealth.com

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

The American Journal of Medicine, 2025

Proposed Nutrition Competencies for Medical Students and Physician Trainees

JAMA Network Open, 2024

Lifestyle Medicine and Vasomotor Symptoms: An Analytic Review

American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine, 2024

Cooking Up Health: A Novel Culinary Medicine and Service-Learning Elective

Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine, 2019

Developing and Implementing Core Competencies for Integrative Medicine Fellowships

Academic Medicine, 2014

Selected press

In the media 2 NYT links to confirm