What I've been teaching & researching

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Bone Health

From Invisible Loss to Informed Action

How REMS results, hormones, and strength training work together to protect skeletal health. Includes the 90-day strong bone plan — evaluation, movement, nourishment, accountability, and supportive hormones.

‍ ‍→ Balance Hormone Center community events

Oral Health

Perimenopause, Menopause & Oral Health

What dental hygienists need to know: xerostomia, gingival changes, alveolar bone loss, burning mouth — and how to recognize hormonal influence in midlife patients and have better clinical conversations.

‍ → Dental hygienist professional groups

Law Enforcement

After the Badge: Sleep, Stress & Hormones

For retired and near-retired female officers: how decades of shift work and hypervigilance reshape the hormonal body — and what perimenopause looks like in the exam room for women in high-stress careers.

‍ → Women in law enforcement wellness programs

I create educational experiences for clinicians, professional groups, and communities who want a more thoughtful way to understand women’s hormone health, perimenopause, sexual wellbeing, and the science of aging.

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Research Testosterone in women: the missing conversation. 

RESEARCH FOCUS AREAS
Questions I bring from the clinic into research
These are the things I keep seeing that the standard protocol doesn’t answer, so I go looking for better answers.

For decades, testosterone has been studied almost exclusively in men. Women produce and depend on testosterone throughout their entire lives, and the clinical implications of its decline are profound and largely unaddressed. Every day in the clinic, I see what happens when testosterone is overlooked: women are told their fatigue is depression, their bone loss is inevitable, and their libido is just a part of aging. The science is advancing. The clinical consensus is behind it. I intend to help close that gap. My work in this area is ongoing in the clinic, and now with a growing body of writing, education, and research. I bring it directly into the clinician program because clinicians I train deserve to understand it deeply.

  • Testosterone’s direct and indirect role in skeletal health, beyond estrogen and REMs scores alone.

  • What declining testosterone means for memory, focus, and the brain fog so many women describe, and too few clinicians investigate.

  • The physiology of desire in women and where testosterone fits, where it doesn’t, and what else belongs in the conversation.

  • The overlap between low testosterone, fatigue, and the metabolic changes of midlife that clinicians are constantly missing.

  • How these hormones work together in the peri and postmenopausal transition and why treating them separately misses the picture.