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Dr. Christine Maren

👑 Board-Certified Physician, IFMCP, MSCP. We take a root-cause approach to perimenopause, thyroid, gut health, autoimmune disease & metabolism.
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It’s all connected, and so is our care. Dr. Christine Maren is a Functional Medicine physician and the founder of a high-tech, innovative medical practice serving patients in Colorado, Michigan and Texas. She is uniquely trained in the Functional Medicine model to identify and treat the root causes of chronic disease. Her approach to patient care is individualized and personalized, with an emphasis on the ways our environment, food and lifestyle choices interact with our genes. She utilizes advanced lab testing to search for a root cause, and seeks the most gentle way to treat the underlying causes of disease. Dr. Maren is board-certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner (IFMCP). She is a compassionate clinician, speaker and wellness advocate. She is married to a surgeon and together they balance rearwarding careers with raising two beautiful children. Learn more at www.drchristinemaren.com.

12/16/2025

When we zoom out, there are three major systems that shape women’s health:

✔️ Hormones

Estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and thyroid hormones shape far more than mood or periods. They influence metabolism, brain health, sleep, inflammation, digestion, and how resilient your body is to stress.

✔️ Gut Microbiome

Your gut is home to trillions of microbes that help regulate hormones, detoxification, metabolism, inflammation, and even neurotransmitters. When the gut is off (think dysbiosis, candida, SIBO, leaky gut), it affects everything else, including immunity and hormone balance.

✔️ Immune System

This is the most underappreciated piece.

Your immune system is constantly responding to signals from your hormones and your gut. Autoimmune disease, histamine overload, chronic inflammation, long COVID, EBV/Mono reactivation, persistent candida… these aren’t random. They’re part of the same network.

When one system becomes imbalanced, the others compensate, and symptoms begin to surface.

Understanding this framework changes everything, because it shows you that your symptoms aren’t happening in a silo.

They’re not separate, random, or “just aging.” They’re connected, explainable, and most importantly, reversible!

My biggest goal with my content is to help women trust themselves and find the help they need to finally make sense of their symptoms.

If this information helped you, please save this post and share it with the women in your community. No woman should have to navigate her symptoms in the dark! 🙏 💜

12/11/2025

This research reinforces everything I teach in my 3-pillar framework (and have been seeing clinically for years!) 👇

✨ ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSE ✨

Stress and trauma shape gut health, immune function, and inflammation. Meditation helps rebalance those pathways.

✨ OPTIMIZE HORMONES ✨

A regulated nervous system improves cortisol patterns, thyroid signaling, and hormone receptor sensitivity.

✨ BUILD RESILIENCE ✨

Daily mind–body practices take you out of survival mode and strengthen the parasympathetic system (your real healing state).

If you want to experience these benefits for yourself, start with just two minutes of meditation a day!

This can help you regulate cortisol, support thyroid health, improve autoimmune symptoms, and build resilience from the inside out.

Your genetics 🧬 are not a life sentence.

Feeling inspired? Share this post with your community so more women can benefit from this research, and take it as your sign to invest in your own meditation practice! Mine has truly been life-changing.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-025-09088-3

12/09/2025

One random Wednesday morning, I watched my dog chase a mama bear and her cub out of our yard!

A real-time example of fight or flight, the exact stress response that helped our species survive. Heart rate increases, blood rushes to our extremities and muscles, breathing rate goes up, and our focus narrows. This is the sympathetic nervous system doing exactly what it was designed to do.

Animals are brilliant at this. When the threat is gone, they (literally) shake it off and return to calm.

Humans? Most of us never get that signal. We stay in stress and survival mode long after the bear is gone… and our nervous system keeps acting like danger is right outside the door.

And when we live in that heightened state chronically, the body shifts into survival, downshifting all of these other systems:

❌ Hormones
❌ Thyroid
❌ Metabolism
❌ Gut & digestion
❌ Immune system

I see this pattern every single day with women in my practice, and I’ve lived it myself.

If you’re anxious, overwhelmed, wired, on edge, exhausted… this is a sign that your nervous system might be working overtime to keep you safe.

Supporting it is one of the most overlooked pieces of getting your health back.

💜If nervous system support is something you want to learn more about, drop a “YES” below.

P.S. Lucy is safe! Best dog ever!!! So are the bears.

12/08/2025

Spotify Wrapped might have my top songs, but ChatGPT captured the conversations, growth, and healing that shaped my year. ✨

This is a fun exercise, but also incredibly telling. The things you ask about the most are often the things you’re becoming.

For me, that looked like…

✨ Getting clearer than ever on the women I’m here to serve: High-achieving women who are done being dismissed and ready to reclaim their health and agency.

✨Deepening my understanding of the gut-hormone-immune connection, and the pivotal role it plays in shaping women’s health.

✨ The importance of nervous system healing. A regulated body creates the conditions for healing, joy, and long-term health.

✨ Realizing again and again that health doesn’t exists in a silo. It’s all connected: every system, symptom, and even the stories we tell ourselves.

I can see exactly how much I’ve changed and how much clarity came from simply paying attention to the questions I kept asking.

Now I’d love to hear from you…

Was there anything you learned from me this year that shifted something for you? What do you want to see more of from me in the new year?

Your reflections mean more than you know. Let’s head into 2026 with intention, agency, and radiance. 👑

12/05/2025

I came across this comment last week by a well-meaning physician, and I have to share my piece! Because unfortunately, I see this confusion happening all too often in women’s health…

Birth control and hormone replacement therapy are NOT the same thing.

They work in completely different ways inside the body, and this difference matters. Especially in perimenopause, when your hormones aren’t just low, they’re fluctuating chaotically.

❌ Birth control pills use synthetic hormones to shut down ovarian production.

✔️ Body-identical HRT supports your natural physiology by adding back what’s declining with the structurally identical hormones.

Yet most physicians receive very little hormone education beyond contraception, which means millions of women aren’t getting accurate information about their options.

This isn’t about blaming doctors. I believe most are doing the best they can with the information they have.

But it’s important to understand this distinction so you can make informed decisions, ask better questions, and advocate for care that supports your hormone health and mitigates your risk.

Like and follow because I have a lot more to say on this topic!

What do you wish your doctor told you about HRT? I’d love to hear what questions you have.

12/04/2025

If you’re active, lifting, and still restricting carbs, this is your sign to rethink what your body actually needs.

If you’re building strength, supporting your metabolism, and fueling well, carbs aren’t the enemy. They can support your recovery, balance blood sugar, and help you feel grounded instead of constantly stressed around food.

Here’s what I’ve learned:

✖️ You don’t create more freedom with more rules.
✔️ You create it by building metabolic resilience so your body can adapt, respond, and use fuel efficiently.

Do you agree with this take? Or is a low carb Paleo diet still working well for you?

12/01/2025

Your nervous system doesn’t need another sale, another tab open, or another dopamine hit.

It needs safety.
It needs spaciousness.
It needs support.

When everything is engineered to pull your attention and trigger urgency, remember to pause and check in.

Here’s your permission to:

Step away from the noise
Breathe before you buy
Choose calm over chaos
Anchor into what feels safe and steady in your body

And remember:

Your peace will always be the best investment you ever make. 💜

11/27/2025

As a physician, a mom, and a woman in midlife, I’m reminded daily that the full expression of our human experience matters.

I have deep gratitude for the difficult lessons I didn’t choose but learned from anyway. Sometimes pain is the way in. Sometimes it’s the doorway to clarity, strength, or a new truth.

And we are humans with a full spectrum of emotions that need to be felt and processed. Fear, anger, sadness… they belong too. Stuffing them (pun intended) does us no good. Our bodies always keep the score.

Gratitude is powerful, but it was never meant to replace what’s true underneath. You can be grateful and overwhelmed. You can hold joy in one hand and sorrow in the other. This is what it means to be human.

There is something beautiful about honoring all of it. The clarity, questions, challenges, and unexpected gifts that come from each one.

Wishing you a Thanksgiving filled with presence, connection, gratitude… and space for every feeling that comes to the table this year. 👑🤍

11/25/2025

My dog is out here chasing a flock of turkeys out of our yard, and honestly… it feels like the perfect metaphor for this time of year. Holiday chaos is real!

And here is the part we rarely talk about:

The holiday season can feel like stress and survival mode for a lot of women. Not because we are doing it wrong, but because we were raised to be capable, responsible, helpful, and endlessly available. Culture teaches girls to ignore or downplay our own needs.

Years ago, I found myself running around like a turkey, too… setting the perfect table, trying to do it all for everyone, and forgetting myself in the process.

So if the chaos feels heavy,
If anxiety or irritability is rising,
If your needs feel like they come last,
And if resentment is showing up…

Let it be the sign that something needs to shift. It might mean you are carrying too much.

How can you live with more authenticity and alignment with yourself? How can you ask for more support, more space, and more care?

You often have to ask for it before anyone knows to offer it. And you have to stop asking so much of yourself.

Being in tune with your needs is not selfish, it’s critical to your wellbeing.

Tell me if this lands for you👇

11/24/2025

Thyroid dysfunction is not rare in midlife women. It’s common, and often underdiagnosed.

Here are some stats that put this into perspective:

👉 A woman’s lifetime risk of developing a thyroid condition is approximately 1 in 8, and prevalence jumps in midlife. (Thyroid.org, 2023)

👉 Studies show 8–10% of perimenopausal women have thyroid dysfunction, climbing to 14–20% in women over 60.

👉 Hashimoto’s is the leading cause of hypothyroidism in 🇺🇸 and is often triggered by hormonal transitions, including menopause.

👉 Hashimoto’s is the most common autoimmune disease in women, and most often develops between the ages of 30 and 50.

Why is hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s so underdiagnosed? And how are the symptoms similar to perimenopause?

I’m answering those questions and more in this week’s newsletter!

Visit www.drchristinemaren.com/newsletter-landing-page to make sure it lands in your inbox Wednesday morning. 💌

11/21/2025

Here’s what this study found:

Hormonal contraceptive pills (“The Pill”) were associated with a slightly increased relative risk of breast cancer. But here’s the part nobody is talking about:

➡️ Progestin-only pills carried a higher risk than combined oral contraceptives (estrogen/ progestin pills)

And the addition of estrogen actually decreased risk. Which means estrogen attenuated the breast cancer signal from synthetic progestins. And this was dose dependent, with the higher doses of estrogen carrying the lower risk. 📉

This aligns with what we learned from the Women’s Health Initiative reanalysis. Estrogen is not the villain. Synthetic progestins might be more problematic. (Note: this does NOT mean progesterone is the problem, as micronized progesterone is different than synthetic progestins)

And just to put this in perspective:

This was a 24% relative increase risk, but the absolute risk of breast cancer was still very small… About 1 extra case per ~7,700 users per year.

All this to say…

👉 We need a more nuanced conversation about contraception and risk.

👉 Birth control pills are not the best treatment for perimenopause symptoms (the risks outweigh the benefits in most women).

👉 We have been worried about the wrong thing here, and need to stop reflexively blaming estrogen for everything.

Thoughts on this topic? Drop them below and share this post so more women can get the information they need to make more informed decisions about their health.

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Christine Maren D.O. is a board-certified physician and the founder of an innovative functional medicine practice in Colorado, Michigan and Texas. She was introduced to functional medicine after struggling with pregnancy complications and recurrent miscarriages. A functional medicine approach helped to address her own underlying health issues associated with gut infections, food sensitivities, hypothyroidism, hormone imbalance and environmental toxins. Now a mother of three, she’s devoted her professional life to helping others address the root causes of their symptoms in order to restore health, prevent disease, and get their life back. Her approach to patient care is individualized and personalized, with an emphasis on the ways our environment, food and lifestyle choices interact with our genes. Dr. Maren is board-certified by the American Board of Family Medicine and is an Institute for Functional Medicine Certified Practitioner (IFMCP). She is a compassionate clinician, speaker and wellness advocate. She is married to an orthopedic surgeon and together they balance rewarding careers with raising three beautiful children. Learn more at drchristinemaren.com.