13th Moon Functional Medicine for Women

11/23/2025

Yes! I've been encouraging women to take tub baths for the multitude of benefits for many years.

Hot bath people… this one’s for us. 🙋🏽‍♀️

Regular heat therapy can:
• support immune function
• boost blood flow + vascular health
• calm inflammation
• build stress-resilience
• even mimic some of the effects of exercise

And according to brand-new research from the University of Oregon, a hot bath delivers these benefits more effectively than a sauna, because hot-water immersion raises core temperature more deeply and consistently.

Link: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/11/251120002611.htm

11/19/2025

Did you know that your nervous system sends clear signals when it’s under strain? Irritability, short temper, or that feeling of being “on edge” are often the first indicators of dysregulation, frequently driven by blood sugar instability.

I love this post by .holistic.psychologist - it’s a perfect example of food as medicine and the profound connection between metabolic health and nervous system regulation.

When your blood glucose drops rapidly or fluctuates dramatically, your body releases stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline to compensate. This triggers your sympathetic nervous system (your fight-or-flight response) which manifests as irritability, anxiety, or emotional reactivity.

Here’s how to reset:

🥩 Eat protein or healthy fats to slow glucose absorption and prevent the spike-and-crash cycle that keeps your nervous system in overdrive

🚶🏼Take a brisk walk to activate your parasympathetic nervous system (rest-and-digest), improve insulin sensitivity, and help clear stress hormones from your bloodstream

Your nervous system can actively regulate through nutrition, movement, and metabolic awareness.

Pay attention to your body’s early warning signals, and you’ll prevent the downstream effects of chronic dysregulation: inflammation, poor sleep, weakened immunity, and metabolic dysfunction.

11/19/2025

Glad to see choline getting more attention. Apparently 40% of women have a mutation of PEMT causing them to need much more choline than others.

People with anxiety disorders have lower levels of choline in their brains, according to research from UC Davis Health. The study, published in the Nature journal Molecular Psychiatry, analyzed...

11/12/2025

This can be worrisome when paired w the declining birth rate already.

Research on adults who take S.S.R.I.s shows they tamp down sexual desire. Why aren’t we studying what that could mean for adolescents who take them?

10/28/2025

A new analysis is one of the first to study whether spacing steps out or consolidating them was linked to better health outcomes.

10/23/2025

I highly recommend anything by Lara Briden, ND.
Her publications are brief and to the point, easy to read and digest, and always evidence based.

An inflammatory, histamine reaction to A1 casein can drive symptoms such as PMDD, breast pain, period pain, and heavy menstrual bleeding.

10/08/2025

Did you catch this morning’s segment with Maria Shriver and my three new best friends? Gratitude to the Today Show for the opportunity to spend time with amazing people who radiate vitality and inspiration.

If you missed it, here's the link to watch the video replay: https://www.today.com/video/how-people-are-reinventing-themselves-in-their-70s-249002565619

We are all worthy of good health and a long life. I hope you embrace that thought each day.

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10/08/2025

Yes! This.

10/08/2025

Good to understand this.

10/08/2025

Thrilled to have Deborah Lieberman, PA of Headwaters Functional Medicine seeing clients also via 13th Moon Functional Medicine.
She can see women as well as men and children 10 and older.
Connect with her
https://www.headwatersfunctionalmedicine.com
or via my website.
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10/06/2025

10/05/2025

Spread the word about the importance of choline in pregnancy.
Make sure your prenatal vitamin has 250-300mg. And it is as important during breastfeeding as it is in pregnancy!

What is easier, treating Alzheimer's or eating more choline during pregnancy?

A Dirty PEMT increases your risk for reduced choline. Choline is NOT talked about at all - yet it needs to be screamed. Pregnant women MUST consume choline.

This is why I use 250 mg of choline in Optimal Prenatal (capsules and powder).

90% of pregnant women are CHOLINE DEFICIENT.

Choline deficiency leads to memory deficits.