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When Normal Labs Hide Prediabetes: Two Physicians’ Hidden Metabolic Crisis
We’re both physicians. We both had normal labs. We both had prediabetes. If it happened to us with medical degrees, access to testing, and decades of clinical experience, it’s happening to you. The Setup I’m Sara Szal, an OB/GYN with three decades in women’s health. My fasting glucose was 110 mg/dL. Standard labs flagged it…
Oral Contraceptives: The Benefits, the 7 Potential Risks, and the Unasked Questions
Introduction For over sixty years, oral contraceptives (OCPs) have been prescribed to hundreds of millions of women — celebrated as a liberation technology, a cultural inflection point, a way to reclaim autonomy over reproduction. But we rarely ask the more radical, more intimate question: What do they do to us? The truth is less settled…
Mitochondrial Health: Lifestyle First, Smart Adjuncts Second, and What We Know in Women
If you want better energy, metabolic flexibility, and healthy aging, improving mitochondrial function is one of the highest-leverage moves you can make. Based on my medical practice for the past 30 years combined with a review of the scientific literature, there are two broad levers: Below is a practical sequence, with the core molecular players decoded…
