Happiness is the feeling after an early-morning workout. Even if the snooze button has been your closest friend for years, there’s something uniquely powerful about exercising in the morning. You might not spring out of bed with your shoes already tied, but once you understand the benefits, you may find yourself rethinking your morning routine….
There’s a moment in almost every group fitness class or gym locker room when someone wipes sweat off their forehead and jokes, “Now I can eat whatever I want tonight.” We’ve all heard it. Maybe we’ve said it. But let’s be honest, if that worked, wouldn’t everyone with a gym membership have six-pack abs by…
A patient once told me she had to stop running halfway through her jog because her playlist hit that one slow Taylor Swift song that just didn’t match her pace. (I think it was “Love Story,” but I’m not the world’s biggest Swifty.) Anyhow, my patient* tried to skip the song, tripped over her shoelace,…
I sometimes I feel like I have trust issues with my own metabolism. One week, I feel unstoppable. My energy is through the roof and my workouts feel amazing. Maybe I shed 1 or 2 vanity pounds. The next week? I’m sluggish, craving sugar, and wondering if my body has turned against me. Sound familiar?…
“Estrogen?!” One of my male patients scoffed at the word printed there in his lab results. “Is this my wife’s paperwork?” I explained how this kind of reaction is common when talking about estrogen with men. It’s based on a misunderstanding. Estrogen is often labeled as the “female hormone,” but the reality is that men…
“So what did the seminar cover today?” my husband asked, knowing I’m always learning (see my blog post about that topic here). “Testosterone therapy, mostly,” I started. “Testosterone! Rawr! Hulk smash!” He offered. Whether Nick meant to or not, I can’t say, but he was speaking to a familiar point of confusion for people when…
Let’s be honest. No one gets excited about getting blood drawn. Even grown adults suddenly remember they’re “bad with needles” the moment a lab tech reaches for that little butterfly syringe. One patient told me she’d rather fight a raccoon for the last oat milk latte than sit for a blood test. But here’s the…
Remember when you could follow the same “clean eating” plan for a few weeks, add in a couple of walks, and—voilà—your jeans zipped up with ease? Think of your metabolism back then like a trusty old GPS: maybe not the fanciest system, but reliable. You knew which route worked, and it usually got you to…
One of my patients told me she could resist cake at birthday parties, pass on dessert menus, and ignore office donuts. But if it’s 11:42 p.m. and there’s a chocolate cookie in the back of the pantry? It’s gone. And she doesn’t even like chocolate that much. What gives? If you’ve ever found yourself elbow-deep…
Let’s be honest—if we could snap our fingers and melt away just our midsection, most of us would. It’s the area we scrutinize in the mirror, the part we try to camouflage with high-waisted leggings, and the reason some of us have tried every ab workout on YouTube. My husband has joked that he does…
