Health & wellness · Naples, FL
Jennifer Richardson
Permission to advocate for your own body
Stories by Jennifer Richardson
Tue, Oct 27The Case for Knowing Your Numbers Before You Need ThemJennifer makes a direct case for testing your hormone levels young, before things go wrong, so you have a baseline…
Tue, Oct 13After Six Doctors, I Became My Own AdvocateAfter years of doctors and a hormone pellet she regrets, she stopped handing over control and learned to manage her…
Tue, Oct 13Three Months With No Way OutAfter pellet hormone therapy sent her levels skyrocketing, she spent three months trapped in a body she didn't…
Tue, Oct 13I Asked for a Feather. I Got a Hammer.After six months of rebuilding herself from the inside out, she finally felt good again. Then she went back for the…
Tue, Oct 13When Saying Yes Was Not the Same as Giving InAfter two years of wrong doctors and unanswered questions, one unexpected conversation finally led to bloodwork, real…
Mon, Jul 20Why I Brought My Health Questions to a Medical School DeanAfter a near-misdiagnosis and years of dismissed symptoms, one woman questions how medicine treats healthy women and…
Mon, Jul 20When One Old-School Doctor Finally Connected the DotsA fill-in doctor solved in five minutes what specialists missed for a year — by simply asking what she was eating and…
Mon, Jul 20Nobody Measures You on a Good DayAfter thyroid trouble and hormone symptoms, she found doctors only measured her in crisis. Now she's building her own…
Sun, Jul 19See You In A YearOff every supplement, back at the doctor, and still no answers, just "see you in a year." Part 3 of Her Hormone Story.
Sun, Jul 19What Nobody Warns You About Following OrdersA woman in peak health gets a kidney and thyroid diagnosis she never expected, then loses everything she built by…
Mon, Jun 15Her Hormone Story: Learning to Trust My Body AgainAfter a routine physical, Jennifer stopped trusting her own body. Part 1 of Her Hormone Story: hormones, dismissed…