About
Dr. Natasha Ryan, ND
I'm a licensed naturopathic physician with roughly two decades of clinical experience, and my work centers on one thing: hormonal optimization for women navigating perimenopause and the years around it.
Credentials
- Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine — Bastyr University
- Licensed Naturopathic Physician — State of Washington
- Approximately 20 years of clinical practice
- Functional medicine practice serving women virtually, based in Charlotte, North Carolina
Why I write this
The questions women bring me deserve longer answers than an appointment allows. Why weight stops responding at 44. Why sleep breaks at 3 AM. Why six doctors said the labs were normal while she felt anything but.
Most of what's published on these topics falls into one of two camps: dismissive, or selling something. The women I work with are capable of handling real information, including the uncomfortable parts — that the evidence is thin, that we don't know yet, that the thing they read about may not help them.
Editorial standards
Everything published here follows the same rules:
- The evidence is characterized honestly. Animal research is called animal research. Preliminary findings are called preliminary. Where human trials don't exist, the article says so.
- Regulatory status is stated plainly. When a compound is not FDA-approved, that appears near the top, not buried at the bottom. Where a drug is approved for one population and discussed for another, the gap is named.
- Nothing here is a prescription. I do not prescribe or dispense the peptide therapies discussed on this site. Those decisions belong with a licensed prescribing provider who has reviewed your full history.
- Foundations come before interventions. If hormones, sleep, protein, and strength training haven't been addressed, an article will say that before it says anything about a protocol.
- Corrections are made openly. If something published here turns out to be wrong or the evidence changes, the article gets updated.
What this site is not
It's not medical advice, and reading it doesn't make you my patient. It can't account for your history, your labs, your medications, or the things only an examination would reveal. Please use it to ask better questions of the clinician who does know those things.