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Root-Cause Medicine, 8790 Ralston Road, Arvada, CO (2025)

11/05/2025

🌿 My Longevity Goals Aren’t Years — They’re Function

I’m not chasing more time on a calendar.
I’m chasing quality in the time I have.
That’s what functional longevity means.
Not just lifespan.

Healthspan — the years you feel alive, capable, clear, and connected.
Here are my top longevity goals. You’ll notice... they’re not numbers:
✅ Live independently
✅ Stay autonomous — in my choices, my thinking, and my rhythm
✅ Stay cognitively sharp and creatively curious
✅ Work in the garden and feel strong in my body
✅ Avoid diapers — dignity matters
✅ Tell stories — to those who come after me
✅ Eat and truly enjoy good food — with all my senses

These are the metrics that matter.
Because when you ask: What are you really living for?
The answer is rarely “more time.”
It’s more life in your years.

📊 At Root Cause, we use data to support function, not just survival.
You can’t change what you don’t measure. And you can’t thrive if you’re only trying to survive.
What’s your longevity goal?

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11/03/2025

🍷 The French Paradox Isn't About the Wine
We’ve all heard it — “The French live longer because they drink red wine.”
It’s not the wine — it’s the way we live.

At Root Cause, we look deeper.
The so-called “French Paradox” likely has more to do with the whole picture:
🥖 Real food
🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Daily connection
⏳ Slower pace
🍷 Occasional alcohol — not as a coping tool, but in celebration, community, and context.

Here’s what we now know from the data:
👉 No amount of alcohol improves health outcomes
But at very low doses, alcohol can support social and emotional well-being — when it's wrapped in connection, ritual, and joy.

The nuance is this:
Everyone’s threshold is different. And we all know the line when alcohol crosses into toxicity — it’s called being drunk. And it wreaks havoc: on your gut, hormones, brain, detox pathways, and sleep.
For me?
✅ Less often.
✅ In celebration.
✅ With good food.
✅ Surrounded by people I love.
✅ And rarely to the threshold.

As I move through menopause, I’ve found that my tolerance to alcohol is lower, and the consequences are louder. Hormones, detox capacity, and brain recovery all shift.
The key is personalization — not prohibition.

Salud- to our health!

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11/01/2025

I started HRT early in perimenopause at age 42.

📉 My estrogen had dropped into the 30s and my energy was crashing. What I didn’t realize at first was that my mitochondria — my body’s energy engines — were slowing down, and my system was conserving energy by shutting down non-essential functions, including my ovaries.

⚡ Hormone failure follows energy failure.
Starting HRT early changed the trajectory of my health. My energy improved, my recovery returned, and I finally felt like myself again.

Now, new research shows that early hormone therapy doesn’t just help symptoms — it may also protect the heart, brain, and even reduce breast cancer risk.

📊 Tracking data and patterns helped me see the full picture. When you understand your numbers, you can act before your body hits burnout.
✨ Data brings clarity. Early action brings resilience.

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11/01/2025

📊Using data helps us course-correct before stress turns into something bigger.

Stress is tricky—it often hides beneath “normal” days until it catches up with us.
Wearables act like a mirror 🪞, showing how your body is truly handling life. This is what resilience looks like—being able to see, adapt, and recover.

When we ignore subtle signals, we slowly lose resilience. Our body whispers long before it shouts ⚠️. I’ll admit, I often misread my own stress clues, which is why my Oura keeps me honest. It reminds me when my work hard, play hard rhythm starts outpacing recovery 🧠💤.

At RootCause Medicine, we track multiple health signals and integrate wearable data into each patient’s health profile and health résumé—so you can build awareness, balance, and longevity 🌿✨.

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10/31/2025

🛟I recently ditched my Oura ring for a few months, thinking I’d take a little break.

Turns out, that “break” cost me insight into my own stress 😅. Over those four months, my stress quietly climbed—and I didn’t see it coming. I use my Oura to tell me when it’s time to chill out , but without it, I lost track.

Like many of us, I didn’t hear what my body was trying to say-a blind spot.
It wasn’t “bad” stress—it was exciting, growth-filled, good stress . But even good stress adds up.

By the time I finally put my ring back on, my data showed high stress levels and even a dip in cortisol ⚠️—a red flag for burnout. I can’t help but wonder if I could’ve prevented it had I been tracking all along.

At RootCause Medicine, we teach you how to read the signs—and how to use tools like your Oura ring to stay ahead of stress, optimize recovery, and protect your energy ✨.

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10/29/2025

🧬 Aging = Entropy and loss of information at the DNA Level
And now, we know it’s reversible.

Groundbreaking new research from Dr. David Sinclair and his team at Harvard (Cell, 2024) confirms: Aging is a loss of information and it can be reversed by replacing lost information.

Your DNA is the hardware. But the epigenetic software — the code that tells your cells how to function — breaks down over time. This loss of instruction creates cellular chaos, dysfunction, and disease. In short, entropy and aging.

Aging is no longer seen as wear and tear (degeneration) — it’s disorganization at the molecular level.

But here’s the game-changer:
This process is reversible.
Sinclair’s team showed that by resetting this lost epigenetic information, they could restore youthful function in aged cells.
Not slow aging — reverse it.

At Root Cause, we embrace this new wisdom.
We don’t wait for symptoms.

We measure the early signs of biological disorganization — inflammation, hormone shifts, immune drift, metabolic dysfunction — and we rebuild function from the ground up.

Because you can’t change what you don’t measure.
And now, we know you can change it.

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10/27/2025

🧬 Aging Isn’t Linear — It Comes in Waves. And We Can Measure It.

A powerful new study confirms what we see every day in our functional medicine practice: aging happens in distinct bursts, not in a slow, steady decline. (Nature Aging 2024)

At Root Cause, we interpret this through a precision lens:
🔹 Around age 44, the body experiences metabolic shifts that affect cardiovascular health, hormone balance, and toxin tolerance. This contributes to the mid-life “why am I feeling off?” stage — often dismissed, but entirely measurable.
🔹 Around age 60, the immune system enters a phase known as immune senescence — a decline in immune surveillance that increases the risk for infection, chronic inflammation, and even cancer.

📊 This isn’t just aging — it’s entropy at work.
Understanding where you are on the spectrum of metabolic and immune function allows us to intervene earlier, support resilience, and redefine what prevention really means.

Because aging isn’t passive — it’s measurable, modifiable, and deeply personal.
You can’t change what you don’t measure.

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10/25/2025

🌱Wondering if your plant protein shake is “toxic”?

You may have seen recent headlines about lead in protein powders — but here’s the reality: California’s Proposition 65 limit for lead is 0.5 micrograms per day — a level so conservative that simply eating a bowl of spinach or drinking a glass of tap water would exceed it.

Prop 65 isn’t a danger label; it’s a consumer awareness law. It warns you about even trace amounts of natural elements that already exist in soil, air, and water — not necessarily a health risk.

The truth? If you eat veggies, breathe city air, or drink water, you’re already above that “limit.”

What matters most isn’t zero exposure — it’s how well your body detoxes, replenishes, and stays balanced.

At RootCause Medicine, we focus on supporting detox pathways, optimizing minerals, and building resilience — not fear. 🌿✨

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10/25/2025

✈️ When anxiety or dizziness hits mid-flight… it’s not “just in your head.”

Here’s what can collide into the perfect storm:
🌡️ Perimenopause → hormone swings
🦠 Viral reactivation → immune flare
🧬 Genetic setup → neuroinflammatory sensitivity
💥 Low estrogen + hi/lo cortisol → brain chaos
⚡ POTS history → shaky autonomic tone

In the moment:
Avoid scrolling — vertical eye motion worsens dizziness/anxiety
Ground your vestibular system → slowly rotate head side-to-side with eyes fixed forward
Practice before you need it — train calm before turbulence
It’s physiology, not weakness — and it’s completely retrainable
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10/24/2025

✈️ When Anxiety Hit Mid-Flight

Even as a functional medicine doctor, I didn’t expect to feel the plane spin mid-air on my way to medical conference.

But when I my crazy brain cleared and the storm settled— I saw the pattern:
➡️ perimenopause,
➡️ recent viral reactivation,
➡️ cortisol surges,
➡️ genetic neuroinflammatory wiring,
➡️ and a history of POTS post-COVID.

It was the perfect storm—a neuro-inflammatory flare that reminded me how profoundly estrogen protects the brain.
When estrogen drops, microglia wake up.
Inflammation rises.

And symptoms like anxiety, vertigo, and brain fog whisper what the data is revealing —
Perimenopause is a systemic inflammatory phase that sets the stage for later neurodegeneration (dementia).
(DOI: 10.1186/s12974-020-01998-9)

Know your markers.
Protect your brain.
Measure inflammation, stabilize hormones, and build resilience before symptoms speak louder.

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10/22/2025

⚛️ Quantum Aging vs. Youthful Vitality — The Einstein Equation You Haven’t Heard

Albert Einstein’s universal law reminds us: "Energy cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed." At Root Cause, we take this further.

Youthfulness isn’t just about energy — it’s about how well energy is organized.
Health is coordinated complexity. Aging is entropy — a slide toward disorganization, chaos, and ultimately disease.

Quantum Aging is what happens when the body’s systems fall out of sync. Like any complex structure left unmanaged, it drifts toward entropy. That’s not philosophy — it’s physics.

At Root Cause, we start with Einstein's Concept of Health.
We measure the data that reveal entropy in the body:
Inflammation markers
Mitochondrial/energy inefficiency
Biological age trends
Oxidative stress
Neural disorganization
Hormones
Because you can’t change what you don’t measure.

From disorganization to resilience, from chaos to clarity — our job is to reverse entropy with precision, data, and momentum.

🧬 Ready to align your health with the laws of the universe?
Start with the data. Define your entropy — and age, intentionally.
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10/20/2025

I used to be conservative about hormone therapy…
But with new data and updated science, I’ve confidently stepped up our approach to testosterone therapy at RootCause Medicine — especially for men.

The latest research (including a recent article released just a few months ago) has helped debunk long-held fears in medical training.

🚫 Testosterone does not cause:
Prostate cancer
Cardiovascular events
Sleep apnea
Misuse or abuse in well-monitored care

In fact, when properly prescribed and monitored, testosterone therapy is enormously beneficial for:
Metabolic health
Muscle mass
Insulin sensitivity
Vitality and longevity

But like all hormone therapy, it’s about balance — not too much, not too little.
📉 I've seen insulin resistance and prostate hypertrophy symptoms in men on unnecessarily high testosterone doses.

That’s why our approach is data-driven and sophisticated — evaluating:
Prostate health
Cardiovascular markers
Sleep apnea risk
Liver detox function
Gut health
Metabolic status

🧬 Hormone therapy should never be isolated.
Find a team who respects the Goldilocks principle — just right — to guide you toward your healthspan and longevity goals.

doi.org/10.1093/sxmrev/qeaf011

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