Vitality Health and Wellness

Good Functional Medicine Should Be
✔ Practical
✔ Affordable
✔ Evidence-informed
✔ Individualized
✔ Sustainable
Not:
✘ Fear-based
✘ Overcomplicated
✘ Supplement-driven
✘ Lab-driven
My Goal Isn't To Sell You More. My goal is for you to need me less

All Fax, no printer 😑

What is dysautonimia? Imagine the cruise control in your car is malfunctioning. The engine still works, the transmission still works, and the brakes still work—but the automatic system that's supposed to keep everything running smoothly keeps overcorrecting or undercorrecting. That's what dysautonomia can feel like

It can affect every body system and it's extremely common in long covid, ehlers dahnlos, post viral and Autoimmune diseases.

EVERYONE THINKS ESTROGEN IS FOR THIS:

🌸 Periods 🌸 Fertility 🌸 Hot Flashes

BUT ESTROGEN ALSO AFFECTS:

🧠 Brain Function ❤️ Heart Health 💪 Muscle & Bone 🔥 Metabolism 😴 Sleep 🌱 Gut Health ⚡ Cellular Energy

Menopause isn't just a hormone transition.

It's a whole-body transition.

Have you been told you can't take estrogen bc of clot risk? Its not at all that black and white

WHAT THE RESEARCH SHOWS
👉Multiple studies have found that transdermal estradiol does not significantly increase venous thromboembolism (VTE) risk compared with non-users.
👉This is why many menopause societies recommend transdermal estradiol as the preferred option for women with:
• Factor V Leiden • Prothrombin gene mutations • Obesity • Elevated cardiovascular risk
• Previous clot concerns (case-dependent)

IMPORTANT
Having a clotting disorder does NOT automatically mean you can never use estrogen.
It means the right estrogen, route, dose, and risk assessment matter.
At Aufbruk Integrative Medicine, we evaluate the whole picture—not just a diagnosis on a lab report.
Because not all estrogens are created equal.

Melinda French Gates Just Put $215 Million Behind a “Menopause Revolution” Menopause care has been overlooked for decades. This new investment aims to change that.

❗️These three MRI images tell the entire story of longevity medicine.

✳️Top: 40-year-old triathlete.
❇️Middle: 74-year-old sedentary adult.
✳️Bottom: 74-year-old triathlete.

Notice something?

The 74-year-old triathlete has more in common with the 40-year-old athlete than the sedentary 74-year-old.

👉Most people think aging causes weakness, fatigue, frailty, loss of independence, falls, insulin resistance, and poor health.

But much of what we blame on "getting older" is actually loss of muscle mass, loss of strength, and loss of metabolic health.

This is why my focus isn't simply hormone replacement or weight loss.

It's preserving muscle.
Because muscle isn't just for looking good.
👉Muscle is your metabolic engine.
👉Muscle controls blood sugar.
👉Muscle protects your bones.
👉Muscle reduces fall risk.
👉Muscle supports independence and quality of life as you age.
We want you hiking with your grandkids. Traveling. Working if you want to. Living independently.
At 74.
And beyond.

👇

"Normal" labs?

🤔 **"My doctor says my labs are normal, so why do I still feel terrible?"**

This is one of the most common things I hear in my clinic.

You're exhausted.
😴 Tired all the time

🧠 Brain fog

⚖️ Gaining weight

😰 More anxious than you've ever been

💔 Low libido

🧊 Cold all the time

💇‍♀️ Hair thinning

But every time you get labs checked, you're told:

✅ "Everything looks normal."

So let's talk about that.

I like to think of lab work like grades in school.

A student who makes a 61 and a student who makes a 98 both technically pass the class.

But let's not pretend they're performing at the same level.

The same thing can happen with lab work.

Many lab ranges are designed to identify disease. They're asking:

🚨 "Is something dangerously wrong?"

But that's not the same as asking:

✨ "Is this person functioning at their best?"

The body doesn't work in separate compartments.

Your hormones affect your brain.

Your thyroid affects your energy.

Your sleep affects your hormones.

Your immune system affects all of it.

Everything talks to everything.

That's why I spend less time looking at one lab value and more time looking at the whole picture.

Because symptoms matter.

If you've been told your labs are normal but you still don't feel like yourself, don't ignore what your body is trying to tell you.

💜 Normal labs should never be the end of the conversation.