Menopause · Food as medicine · Integrative health
Speaking
Melinda Ring, MD, is a board-certified internal medicine, integrative medicine, and lifestyle medicine physician and a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner. She is Executive Director of the Osher Center for Integrative Health at Northwestern University, where she holds the Tina Trott Professorship in Integrative Health, and is past chair of the American Board of Integrative Medicine. A TEDx speaker quoted in The New York Times, she founded the culinary medicine program Cooking Up Health and co-authored proposed national nutrition competencies for medical education in JAMA Network Open. Her book, Meno-Laws, arrives in 2027.
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The talks
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Midlife and menopause
General
Meno-Laws: What Every Woman Should Have Been Told About Midlife
The seven physiological truths that govern the midlife body, and why the standard advice fails. Reframes symptoms as physiology: hormones, stress, and metabolism as one connected system.
Clinical
Hormone Therapy in Practice: Candidacy, Contraindications, and the Conversation
Current evidence on hormone therapy, translated into the decision a clinician and patient have to make together, including how to communicate risk well.
Clinical
Integrative Approaches to Vasomotor Symptoms
Pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic options for hot flashes and night sweats, including lifestyle interventions, acupuncture evidence, and the newer non-hormonal agents.
Clinical
Evidence-Based Supplements for Menopausal Symptoms
A graded walk through the botanicals and nutraceuticals patients are already taking, with dosing, evidence quality, interactions, and the honest gaps.
Clinical
The HPA Axis: Dysfunction, Testing, and Recovery
A framework for recognizing and treating HPA axis dysfunction, including which tests earn their place. Based on Dr. Ring’s 2025 review in The American Journal of Medicine and delivered at Harvard Medical School.
General / clinical
Anti-Inflammatory Eating: What the Evidence Supports
What is well established about dietary patterns and inflammation, what is extrapolated, and what is marketing. Adaptable to lay, corporate, or clinical audiences.
General / corporate
Be Your Own Best First Doctor
The TEDx talk, expanded. What it means to be an informed participant in your own care, where self-tracking helps, where it misleads, and how to have a better conversation with your clinician.
General / Clinical
Beyond the Buzz: Honest Answers to Longevity Questions
Peptides, IV drips, cold plunges, biological age tests, supplements. What the evidence supports, what it does not, and how to tell the difference before spending money on it.
All talks can be tailored in depth and emphasis to your audience. Additional and combined topics available on request.
Formats
- Keynotes, 45 to 60 minutes
- Grand rounds and CME lectures
- Half-day and full-day workshops
- Corporate and employer wellness sessions
- Panels and moderated conversations
- Virtual delivery for all of the above
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