Whole Health Rheumatology - Olga Pinkston MD

01/03/2026

Excited to attend this session! 🙌
If you have Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) or hypermobility spectrum disorder (HSD), you're not imagining it—your hormones really do affect your symptoms.
Many women with EDS/HSD deal with:
- Painful periods
- Heavy bleeding
- Pain during intimacy
- Chronic pelvic pain
And here's what often gets overlooked: hormonal shifts can make your hypermobility symptoms worse. This includes puberty, the week before your period, after having a baby, and sometimes even on birth control.
Menopause deserves special attention too. When estrogen drops, it can amplify the joint pain, muscle aches, and connective tissue problems you're already managing—yet this connection rarely gets discussed.
This is exactly why I'm passionate about treating the whole person, not just the joints. Your hormones and your hypermobility are connected, and you deserve a care team that understands that.

01/03/2026

Honored to have been part of The Starting Gate Podcast's Top 10 episodes of the year! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who listened and shared. Here's to more conversations in 2026 that help people feel seen, heard, and empowered in their health journey.

🎙️ The Starting Gate Podcast: Top 10 Episodes of the Year 🎙️

As we look back on an incredible year of meaningful conversations and practical health education, these were our Top 10 most-downloaded episodes. Thank you for listening, sharing, and investing in your health.

Here are the episodes you loved most:

1️⃣ The Menopause Transition: What’s Normal, What’s Not, and How to Feel Your Best with Dr. Deidra Beshear

2️⃣ Facing the Fire: Sarah’s Story and Expert Advice on Fire Safety with Chief Jason Wells

3️⃣ Life After the Fire: What I Learned About Loss, Insurance, and How Community Got Me Through It with Hays Featherston

4️⃣ Roadblocks to Results: How to Take Charge of Your Health Journey with Dr Sarah Schuetz and Dr Katherine Dotson

5️⃣ Stronger for Life: The Power of Movement at Any Age with Dustin Jones

6️⃣ Beyond the Joint Pain: Understanding Autoimmune Arthritis & Fibromyalgia with Dr. Olga Pinkston

7️⃣ From Diagnosis to Relief: Making Sense of Back Pain with Dr. Shawn Milburn

8️⃣ Understanding Metabolic Health: From Insulin Resistance to Longevity with Dr. Meredith Sweeney

9️⃣ From Wear to Repair: Managing Osteoarthritis and Knee Pain with Dr. Kevin Denehy

🔟 Eat Well, Live Better: Beth Kronenberg’s Recipe for Wellness

Whether you joined us for lifestyle medicine, movement, resilience, or metabolic health—your support makes this podcast possible.

🎧 If you missed an episode, now’s the perfect time to catch up. Our new season will start back January 6, 2026!

01/01/2026

Grateful for every patient, every referral, and every connection made in 2025. Thank you for being part of our journey. Here's to a health in 2026.

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas from the Whole Health Rheumatology family (& Pasha)! Wishing you health and happiness this holiday season. 🎄

12/08/2025

After a 2.5-year break from podcasting, at the request of one of my patients, I recorded another episode of my podcast: "Mind Your Hormones: Perimenopause, Menopause, and Fibromyalgia - Here's What You Need to Know." It's about the musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause and the overlap of the symptoms with fibromyalgia.

11/07/2025

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10/19/2025

Half the world will experience menopause.
And yet, it remains one of the least studied and least resourced stages of human health.

For some, the transition is a shifting landscape: hot flashes and sleepless nights, but also brain fog, anxiety, changes in libido, and a quiet reckoning with identity.

Too often, women are told to simply endure.

An integrative approach offers something more.

It begins with the whole person. Your physician (or PA / NP) takes time to understand your story: your symptoms, your frustrations, your home life, your stress levels, your goals, your purpose.

An integrative menopause plan includes lifestyle medicine and, for some, supplements and herbs and hormonal / pharmacologic tools.

It’s not one-size-fits-all. It’s integrative care that meets you where you’re at and emphasizes your innate capacity to heal.

This year, the International Menopause Society released The Role of Lifestyle Medicine in Menopausal Health, showing that lifestyle medicine can help women move through menopause with greater resilience, improving sleep, mood, and weight regulation while reducing risks for heart disease and bone loss.

Menopause is a natural transition, but for many, it can bring significant change. An integrative approach offers real, evidence-based support for every stage of the journey.

What are your thoughts on menopause and medicine?

08/02/2025

Excited to share my article in Louisville Medicine on how direct specialty care is transforming rheumatology practice. Whole Health Rheumatology - a membership-based practice that eliminates insurance intermediaries and allows adequate time for evidence-based, integrative care. This isn't concierge medicine - it's accessible medical care delivered as it should be, addressing the whole person through my combined expertise in rheumatology, internal medicine, and lifestyle medicine. Healthcare as it should be.

Joomag digital interactive publication

05/21/2025

# # 🎙️ NEW EPISODE ALERT: The Starting Gate Podcast 🎙️ Link in comments. Available on all podcast platforms!

**Just released!** I had the privilege of joining The Starting Gate Podcast to discuss the powerful intersection of rheumatology, integrative and lifestyle medicine!

Kentucky deserves better health outcomes, and The Starting Gate Podcast is working to bridge the gap by bringing cutting-edge lifestyle medicine to our communities!

The physician hosts, Dr. Katherine Dotson and Dr. Sarah Schuetz, are board-certified in Lifestyle Medicine and dedicated to transforming healthcare in Kentucky one conversation at a time.

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05/08/2025

Learn something new everyday! We are expanding our knowledge & taking time for self-care today @ Integrative Health & Wellness Symposium today.