Twenty-seven years in pursuit of the upstream cause.

§ The lens

Somewhere in the second decade, the static started. Not a thought — a felt sense that the way I was practicing wasn't the way I wanted to practice anymore. It arrived alongside my own entry into perimenopause, and alongside a world being forced into its own recalibration by a pandemic. My body was being remade at the same moment everyone's was. I didn't miss the symmetry.

What I understood in that stretch is the thing I now build everything around: perimenopause is not a decline. It is a biological adaptation — a recalibration that, across human history, turned the woman who reached it into the discerning one, the one the group couldn't function without. The same hormonal shift that thins your bandwidth and shortens your fuse is the one returning you to yourself: clearer about what you want, done performing, finally honest.

The medicine I trained in first understood this long before I did. Chinese medicine holds that aging is a transmutation — of jing, the dense life-essence you're born with, into shen, the seated wisdom only time can distill. You can't add to the essence you were dealt. But you have enormous say in how you spend it. It is, in plain terms, the five-thousand-year-old version of what we now call epigenetics: the genes are the hand, the living is the expression.

My work is not to reverse that process. It is to support it — so the transmutation is graceful instead of violent, and a woman feels good enough in her body to follow what she actually wants.

§ The method & the work

Functional medicine is what happens when you don't accept that explanation. It is rigorous, evidence-based, and stubbornly individual. I run the labs that tell a different story. I design protocols that change in real time as the patient does. I treat the body as a system — which means that when something is wrong in one place, I look for what is already wrong in three others.

In 2024 I built the Reverse Age Method: a clinical AI platform for women in perimenopause. I encoded twenty-seven years of clinical protocol logic into an agent that can hold what I hold — the full picture, the upstream cause, the sequence that actually works. The goal was never to replace the clinical relationship. It was to make what I know available to women I will never meet. Not to put myself at the center of her care — but to hand her the thing I'd spent years only ever lending: the full picture, so she could be the one to act on it.

That work brought me somewhere I didn't expect: into the room where the future of clinical medicine is being designed. I write and speak on the ethical integration of AI into functional and integrative practice. I consult on the clinical architecture of products designed to serve patients the current system leaves behind. The clinical intelligence that comes from twenty-seven years of treating complex cases is exactly what is missing from most of what is being built — and I want to be part of fixing that.