Dr. Susan Caldwell

08/12/2025

If you or anyone you love takes natural thyroid medications such as NP thyroid or Armour Thyroid, please sign and share this petition to stop the FDA from banning the sale of these drugs. These drugs are essential for many patients, especially those struggling with infertility. Thank you 🤗

Ask the FDA to allow the use of Desiccated Thyroid Medication

07/13/2025

Healthcare should lead to health and wholeness rather than illness and division.

Birth control creates a rupture between body and soul. Whenever we reject a part of the body as unnecessary, the entire system/woman suffers (even if she doesn’t realize it for several decades)😥.

This was my story…and that of many of my patients. They learn later that birth control- and the mindset that comes along with it- caused a subconscious self-contempt that is difficult to repair. We cannot selectively mute parts of ourselves without paying the price at some point.

If you’ve experienced this, give yourself lots of love and compassion ❤️‍🩹🥰. It’s never too late to choose love > fear.

07/05/2025

Low progesterone is a risk factor for breast cancer and even death according to this study.

I ❤️ progesterone 🤗

Women deserve more than “quick fix” solutions such as birth control and IVF. They deserve real answers not short term solutions that promise immediate results yet harm them in the long run.

06/28/2025

I graduated 👩🏻‍🎓🥼medical school and residency without ever learning:

⚠️ Birth control is a class one carcinogen.
⚠️ It increases the risk of stroke and blood clots.
⚠️ It can mask endometriosis, PCOS, and other underlying issues.

As a practicing physician, I prescribed it anyway - just like I’d been taught.

But when I listened my patients stories…how they were harmed by birth control…I started asking questions. and what I found was deeply unsettling.🥴😯

Why don’t doctors know this? Why don’t patients? 🤨

This is not about fear. This is about informed consent.🤓🩺👩🏻‍⚕️🥼💊

The truth is out there. It’s time we bring it into the light.🕯️

06/21/2025

The effects of progesterone/real hormones on the uterine lining are drastically different from those of birth control. The bottom line…progesterone nurtures 🪴and birth control suppresses ☠️. Choose wisely 👩🏻‍⚕️😎.

06/14/2025

“Ain’t nothing like the real thing” when it comes to progesterone and our brains. 🧠

I’ve learned a lot from in her book “This is Your Brain on Birth Control” but mostly from my patients who have complained about these side effects and come to my clinic for better options 🙌🏻.

Fortunately, micronized progesterone is widely available by prescription and is AMAZING for the brain (in most women).

Progesterone is especially powerful 💪🏻 in perimenopause and menopause for anxiety and sleep. I’ve heard it called “nature’s Xanax” 💊😎.

06/06/2025

Here’s a part of my story as a physician learning about how to harness the power progesterone for my patients once I learned the crucial differences between progesterone and progestins. So sorry that I didn’t learn this in school or residency. Thanks for mentors who taught me this amazing truth 🤩 and Dr. Thomas Hilgers to name a few 🙌🏻

Now to pass the torch 🔥and hopefully inspire more providers to embrace the powers of progesterone 💪🏻

05/31/2025

Here is the first of a series of posts about the power of real progesterone and the truth about the many fake versions of this hormone, known as “progestins” found in many birth control prescriptions.

I never cease to be amazed by how many doctors and patients don’t know the difference between the real hormone and it’s counterfeit.

I think the reason lies in the timeline during which these prescriptions were made available. Birth control containing progestins were available starting in 1960 whereas actual progesterone was not available until 1998.
Real body-identical estradiol was not available for prescription until 2004.

No wonder so many doctors don’t know the difference between birth control and authentic hormones. They prescribed birth control for decades before actual hormones were available for prescription.😳

I graduated from med school in 1999 👩🏻‍🎓. I did not know there was a such a thing as a prescription for a real hormone for many years. 😱

05/11/2025

According to this study: “More than half of women ages 30 to 35 are already suffering moderate to severe symptoms associated with menopause”. 😳 Yikes!!!

This data came from Flo app users.

as a primary care physician who sees a lot of women in this age group, I am not surprised.

Click the link in bio for The Menopause Rating Scale.

The good news is, there is a lot you can do without even seeing a doctor. I highly recommend this book by as a first step. Remember that 99.9% of doctors have had zero training in what to do for women who have these symptoms in perimenopause, including me 🙋🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️.

05/04/2025

Ci******es. Opioids.
Both were once “safe” too.
What if the Pill is another ticking time bomb?
History says: we should be asking more questions.

02/02/2025

Hoping to clear up some confusion here and shine some light in this darkness 🕯️💡
So many patients and even doctors are confused about the terms “natural”, “ synthetic” and even “hormone”. There are certainly reasons for this confusion. Birth control pills were developed in prescription form long before actual hormones were able to be prescribed. Unfortunately, many doctors never learned the difference between birth control and hormones. Therefore, patients are confused.
Please learn and share 🎤📢

11/22/2024

When a woman/couple chooses artificial reproductive technologies, such as IVF, they do not envision what could go wrong.

They are often not told of the risks and dangers of bypassing the root cause of infertility in order to grasp at control over the outcome. The desire to have a child is extremely powerful and like many of our desires, they can lead us to take unnecessary risks.

These two studies, highlighted by are great examples of what happens when we do not address the underlying causes of infertility. Many women facing infertility are simply unhealthy. They often have hidden sources of inflammation such as insulin resistance, obesity, autoimmune diseases, and poor metabolic health. When these are ignored and the woman is given extreme doses of hormones in an attempt to achieve pregnancy in an unhealthy state, it makes sense that she will not be healthy after pregnancy either. In fact, disastrous health outcomes may result.