Dr Mary Pines

10/20/2025

✨ CLIENT WIN: MEET BETSY ✨

I was able to help Betsy, a healthcare provider with chronic issues. She hadn’t found help with through conventional medicine using NATURAL, outside-the-box approaches, not drugs. A huge win for her!

Betsy joined the Better Beyond 40 program to deepen her understanding of perimenopause, longevity, and her own health. What happened next? 🧠💡

She walked away with:

➡️ A clearer picture of what was driving her symptoms
➡️ Tools and personalized strategies to support healing
➡️ Confidence to navigate her health long-term

Her words say it best:

“Your life will be better and you will be armed with more knowledge and resources for the future.”🙌 This is exactly why I do what I do — to empower midlife women with education, clarity, and practical tools that make a real difference.

✨ Curious about what Better Beyond 40 could do for you?

Tap the link in bio under Helping Midlife Women Thrive 💛

10/10/2025

Can we please stop talking about calories as THE metric for food consumption?

Stop pretending that 100 calories 🍪 of cookies equals 100 calories of chicken🍗?
Not all calories are created equal!

It’s not just about the numbers - it’s about how different macronutrients affect your body in completely different ways.

Here’s the calorie breakdown:
✨ 1g fat = 9 calories
✨ 1g protein = 4 calories
✨ 1g carbs = 4 calories
✨ 1g alcohol = 7 calories (plot twist!)

But here’s where it gets really interesting - protein is absolutely magical for your body (yep, everyone’s freakin’ out about it for a reason):
🔥 It’s way MORE satiating than fat but has WAY fewer calories
🔥 It reduces levels of hunger hormone (ghrelin) in your body
🔥 It boosts your fullness hormone (peptide YY)

One study showed that when overweight women increased their protein from 15% to 30% of calories, they naturally ate 441 fewer calories per day WITHOUT trying to restrict anything!

This is why I never have my clients count calories obsessively.

Instead, we focus on the QUALITY of those calories, how they make your body feel and how they affect your physiology.

Your body isn’t a calculator - it’s a complex biological system that responds differently to different foods 💪

10/03/2025

After all the wedding shennanies, my HUSBAND (woah!) and I need a little downtime to rest and play…

We took off last weekend for a “Mini Honeymoon” (real one in Indonesia in a couple weeks!).

Drove 5h east to beautiful Penticton/Naramata, BC on a road trip in our camper with our goofy, floofy boy. 🐶

This is BC’s wine country…and boy, she delivered!! ❤️🍷🥂

(I may be a health nut, but I’m also a wine nut and a food nut!)

11/10 🤩

Great friends, great food, great wine, great rides, great timessss!

Was feeling so good, Bryan even got me to go climbing…terrifying, but somehow fun.

09/19/2025

Here's something that changed everything for me years ago when it came to my metabolic health & my weight, and continues to crush it for my clients:⁠
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Exercise snacks (especially after meals!)⁠ 💪⁠
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Most people do one long, draining workout in an otherwise largely sedentary day...⁠
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Unfortunately, research shows that all that sitting around actually negates the benefits of that workout from a metabolic standpoint! Eeek!⁠ 🫤⁠
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So here's something better: ⁠
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Rather than one long bout of movement, break it up into mini-workouts spread throughout the day.⁠
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Studies show this can:⁠
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✨ Lower blood sugar spikes by up to 50%⁠
✨ Reduce cravings and energy crashes⁠
✨ Boost metabolism without exhausting your body⁠
✨ Improve energy levels all day⁠
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For me, the key was briskly walking for ~20 minutes after meals. Within three months, I finally started losing those stubborn pounds AND had WAY more steady energy!⁠
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One of my clients, Jessica, lost 15 pounds in just 4 months by simply moving her body - mostly walking - after meals. No grueling workouts. No extreme diets. Just this simple, consistent habit.⁠
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Have you tried exercise snacks? What's your favorite way to sneak in movement?⁠
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09/09/2025

Angie came to me doing all the “right” things—working out, trying every clean diet—and still felt foggy, inflamed, and frustrated.

Once we focused on her hormones, her nervous system, nutrient balance and calming inflammation, everything changed.

She’s now energized, clear-headed, and thriving…finally able to really crush it as a busy realtor and single mom with kids!

✨ If you feel like your body isn’t responding the way it used to, I walk through the exact hormone-first approach I use in my free masterclass.

🔗 Link’s in bio if you want to check it out. It’s totally free and packed with takeaways you can use today.
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08/28/2025

“YOUR THYROID IS NORMAL” BUT YOU FEEL AWFUL? 🦋⁠
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You’re tired, gaining weight, brain foggy, have thinning hair, brittle nails, run cold...but your doctor “tested your thyroid” and your TSH is “normal.”⁠
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Sound familiar?⁠
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Here’s the thing: TSH is a pituitary hormone, not a thyroid hormone. ⁠
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Simply checking TSH to assess thyroid function is like seeing an idling car sitting on a lot and assuming it works well. Or checking the thermostat in your room for the temperature rather than actually feeling the temperature.⁠
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Yet this is the standard approach in medicine.⁠
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What you actually need tested to properly assess thyroid function:⁠
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- TSH⁠
- Free T3 & T4 -> actual thyroid hormones!⁠
- Reverse T3⁠
- Thyroid antibodies⁠
- Symptoms inventory -> Your symptoms matter MORE than your numbers, especially as you get older! ⁠
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🔗 Want to know more? Check out the full article - link in bio!⁠
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04/30/2025

https://drmarypines.com/free-help/your-thyroid-crucial-for-energy-fat-loss-feeling-good-aging-wellyet-the-standard-medical-approach-is-absurdnbsp

We all need to pay closer attention to our thyroid health as we get older, yet so many of us are slipping through the cracks in conventional medicine. Here’s a smarter way to assess thyroid health, including symptoms to watch for + the blood tests you need!

04/30/2025

🤩 Met the brilliant Dr Paul Stamets last night, an absolute LEGEND in mycology 🍄‍🟫….and psychedelic spaces.
Thank you, Dr Stamets, for a beautiful, inspiring and hopeful speech. It moved me deeply.

Also loved connecting with (my dear, long-time friend, Mark Haden. His research and tireless efforts have brought the therapeutic use of psychedelics & entheogens into the mainstream, verging on legal. Hooray! We have such interesting chats when we hike. 😊

Thank you to all who helped execute the Psychedelic Association of Canada’s fundraiser in Vancouver, BC!🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

😍 Incredible to rub elbows with such a switched-on community of change-makers, whose intentions were clearly rooted in greater good of society as a whole. Refreshing.

…and an interesting juxtaposition with our federal election on the same night. 🙃

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04/06/2025

https://drmarypines.com/free-help/weight-loss-myth-more-exercise-does-not-always-more-calories-burned

This WILL blow your mind when it comes to how you think about working out “to burn calories.”

03/24/2025

Routine cold exposure can be an amazing health practice, BUT it can also be detrimental when done incorrectly.

Here are some of the most common cold plunge don’ts I come across in my practice.

03/17/2025

Typical results my clients experience when working with me or in my Better Beyond 40 Formula program for perimenopausal women!