Dr. Kelly Head, ND (2026)

16/10/2023

I am proud and excited to be teaching what I know to be true about health and hormones inside the Women’s Health and Hormone Summit October 30 - November 3rd. 😍

My talk is specifically on hormone replacement therapy for postmenopausal women but there are 20 other experts giving talks on the various stages of womanhood. 😍

This is a FREE 5-day event to learn everything you need to know to revitalize your health, naturally, and long before dis-ease forms.

If you’re ready to:

✓ Avoid hormonal chaos
✓ Put an end to hot flashes, energy fluctuations, mood swings and weight gain
✓ Restore a nourished kind of vitality through powerful, insightful knowledge…

You’re in the right place!

Link in bio to save your seat.❤️❤️❤️

23/05/2023

If you’re interested in hearing how I go through a DUTCH Test, this is the podcast for you!

Lacey Lyons and I had a FABULOUS conversation about her own test results, and it was interesting to discover that her results matched up well with how she was feeling (and her lifestyle) back when she did the test!

You can listen to it online (for example, Spotify). Search “Authentic Health Podcast” and click on episode 23.

You can also watch it on YouTube by typing in this URL (I highly recommend watching it because I visually walk through the results): youtube.com/watch?v=tL28QjjbOtQ

Enjoy, and a BIG thank you to for having me on her podcast!! So fun to chat with you about your DUTCH Test results ❤️💕❤️

07/03/2023

I was thrilled to be on Coach Debbie Pott’s The Low Carb Athlete Podcast, which is now live! 💕👍

We talk about:

👉 How stress, insulin resistance, and inflammation can affect s*x hormones in women AND men, and how DUTCH Testing can help illuminate contributors to stubborn weight loss.

👉Low testosterone (T) and high estrogen in men.

👉Maintaining and improving athletic performance during times of stress and during the aging process by supporting hormones.

👉How hormones are important for mood, bone and muscle health, weight loss, ability to exercise (and recover from exercise), libido and more!

👉Even how milk may lower T in men!!!

Thank you so much for having me on your show! ❤️💜💕

07/12/2022

I’m so honored and excited to be on the Pretty Well Podcast with lovely Lisa Smith, RD!! In this episode we discuss estrogen dominance and estrogen detox. See details below and checkout to listen. 😍

Episode #28 “Estrogen Dominance – Do You Have It & What To Do About It? Guest Interview with Dr. Kelly Ruef from DUTCH Testing”

“We are so excited to have Dr. Kelly Ruef with us on this episode to discuss hormones and the DUTCH test! Dr. Ruef is a licensed naturopathic doctor who works for DUTCH as a clinical consultant. The DUTCH test is an advanced hormone test that analyzes hormones in order to identify symptoms of hormonal imbalances. This test is done at home and then sent to a lab to be analyzed. Tune in to this episode to learn more about DUTCH and hear all of Dr. Ruef’s expert advice on hormonal acne, estrogen dominance, and detoxing for clear skin!”

21/12/2021

Tom and I are happy to announce that our little baby girl Ava Marie Ruef came two weeks early on November 23rd, 2021 at 6 lbs 14 oz and 19.5” long. We are beyond grateful to have her in our arms now! ❤️ A BIG thank you to all who have supported us during this time. We are beyond blessed and fortunate to have you all in our lives. Much love!

29/06/2021

After some covid delays, I finally got to get married to the man of my life ❤️💙💜 Thank you to everyone who helped make this wedding possible, and for the ongoing love and support. And YES, I’M PREGNANT!! 😍 18 weeks currently and due in early December with a little girl. We are beyond excited and grateful to welcome our first child into the world! 💜🌺💙🥰🌈🤩👍

04/02/2021

Are you experiencing mood swings right before your period? Anxiety? Irritability? Nervousness? 😢 😩 😬 😡
Well it might be interesting to know that magnesium and B6 has been shown to improve premenstrual tension symptoms in women! YAY! Some relief!! 👍👍👏
One study "showed a significant effect of 200 mg/day Mg + 50 mg/day vitamin B6 on reducing anxiety-related premenstrual symptoms (nervous tension, mood swings, irritability, or anxiety)" PMID 10746516. 🤗
Another study found that "mean red cell magnesium level was significantly (p less than 0.01) lower in PMT patients." PMT meaning premenstrual tension. PMID 7197877 😮
50mg is honestly a higher dose than what I was using, so I'll be updating that in my notes. Isn't research COOL?! 😍😉😁
Okay, that's all for now, enjoy your weekend everyone, however your weather is looking like - it’s gonna be raining here but I know some of you are in a snow globe right now!☀️☃️🌧️🌦️

02/02/2021

In the last few posts, we've learned that BPA (bisphenol A) is an estrogenic endocrine-disrupting chemical that may affect fertility! 🙁
And to top it off, it can affect S***M!!! 👈👀
One 5 year study in Chinese men found that the men who had higher levels of BPA in their urine (so higher exposure to BPA) had lower quality s***m (PMID 21035116).😯
Their s***m had decreased motility 🙁
They had a lower s***m count 🙁
They had a lower s***m concentration 🙁
Another study showed that urinary concentration of BPA increased the percentage of immature s***m (PMID 30261816). 😬
So what can you do? Well, you can go back to my other posts to learn more about where BPA is hiding, but in general, try your best to:
👉 Avoid plastic water bottles
👉 Avoid food packaged in plastic
👉 Use reusable mesh produce bags instead of plastic bags at the grocery store
👉 Avoid microwaving or storing food in plastic
👉 Buy food in glass jars instead of plastic
👉 Even better, make all those jams, nut butters, nut milks and yogurt at home!
👉 Avoid canned foods (make those beans at home! Instant Pot rocks at this)
👉 Avoid touching receipt paper
👉 Lower paper products in your home by getting online statements, online news, Kindle online books, opting out of junk mail by calling 1-888-5-OPT-OUT (see my last post)
👉 Avoid recycled paper products
😍 ❤️ 💜

28/01/2021

In the last few posts, we've learned that BPA (bisphenol A) is an estrogenic endocrine-disrupting chemical that may affect fertility! 🙁
Many of us know that BPA is in plastics, but did you know that BPA is found in many paper products too? 🤔
👉Thermal receipt paper
👉Flyers
👉Magazines
👉Tickets
👉Mailing envelopes
👉Newspapers
👉Food contact papers
👉Food cartons
👉Airplane boarding passes
👉Luggage Tags
👉Printing papers
👉Business cards
👉Napkins
👉Paper towels
👉Toilet paper
So what do we do? We can't just avoid touching all paper and go hide from the world under a rock! Well, we can be educated about what paper products may have the highest BPA concentrations & try to minimize contact with those products.
For example, one study found that thermal receipt paper had that highest BPA concentrations out of all the paper products listed above (PMID 21939283). So, if you work in an environment where you touch receipts all day, wear gloves (I do see some cashiers doing this!). If you can get your receipt emailed to you instead of printed, choose that option! 😍😁👍
The study also found that recycled paper products (they gave the example of napkins and toilet paper) had microgram per gram BPA concentrations. This is because thermal paper is often recycled. 😮
In general, recycled paper products are more toxic due to the chlorine bleach and de-inking agents used to whiten & brighten the recycled products. 😬
With all this said, most of us are getting more BPA from our diet (drinking out of plastic water bottles, buying food in plastic, eating food out of BPA-lined cans) than from touching paper products, just FYI. 👈👈👀
So what can you do? 🤔
👉Avoid touching receipt paper
👉Lower paper consumption in your day to day life by:
👉👉Enrolling in paperless bank statements
👉👉Buying Kindle books instead of printed paper books
👉👉Getting news online instead of from printed newspapers
👉👉Opting out of receiving junk mail offers from creditors and insurers for 5 years by calling 888-5OPT-OUT (you'll find this number on the FTC Consumer website - it's legit).
👉👉Using handkerchiefs instead of tissues
😍🤗❤️

27/01/2021

BPA (bisphenol A) is an estrogenic endocrine-disrupting chemical that is added to plastics to make them strong and resilient, and epoxy resins to keep the insides of metal cans from corroding. 👈👀
Apparently, it's not just plastics and canned food items we need to be thinking of when it comes to BPA! 😬
We also need to think about toilet paper! 🚽 It's our friend that comes in handy EVERY DAY, and it's our friend that was pretty hard to come by almost a year ago (which is crazy, as Caboo says 27,000 trees are logged each day JUST to fulfill our world's toilet paper needs). What if we all just used one square less every time we wiped...👍😍
Now I don't want to scare you with this post. The amount of BPA you are getting from the toilet paper is likely nominal. But it's good just to be aware that BPA is all around us and it can impact our health, so why not do our best to #1 understand where it is and #2 reduce our exposure? 🤔 Research has shown that BPA is found in ovarian follicular fluid, fetal serum and full-term amniotic fluid - so it passes through the placenta. (PMID 12407035)😟
In the last post we talked about how BPA has been:
👉Shown to affect estrogen levels
👉Shown to affect # eggs retrieved during IVF
👉Associated with recurrent miscarriages
👉Shown to increase odds of implantation failure
So what can you do?
👉 You can buy toilet paper from companies like Caboo which make it from non-tree materials (sugar cane and bamboo)
👉 You can avoid "recycled" toilet paper and paper towel products because these often have higher BPA (and other chemical) concentrations. It takes some hefty chemicals to de-ink and bleach all that paper!! A lot of the BPA in recycled paper products is due to thermal paper (receipt paper) being recycles, because this type of paper contains high amounts of BPA
👉 You could get a bidet attachment to avoid toilet paper entirely. I hear they are easy to install and wonderful to have around!! It's on my future list! 💜 ❤️ 💜

26/01/2021

We've all seen the "BPA-Free!" labels on certain plastic products, especially plastic water bottles. Do you remember the year you became aware of the synthetic chemical bisphenol A (BPA)? I think I started to notice the "BPA-Free!" labels around 2007. Crazy, considering it's been in use since the 1960's. 👀
Naively, after seeing all these "BPA-free!" labels popping up everywhere, I assumed that since BPA appeared to be "bad," it was therefore being removed from most products...you know, to keep the public safe and all. 😬
BOY. WAS. I. WRONG! 😦
Nope, it's being removed from SOME products (and sometimes being switched out with BPS which may also be toxic) but it is still plentiful in many plastics, food storage containers, plastic water bottles, receipt paper, recycled paper, baby bottles, canned foods, dental sealants and more! 🍼
And how does BPA relate to fertility? Well, it's been shown to CAUSE oocyte (egg) aneuploidy (chromosomal issues) in animals for one. Secondly, in women undergoing IVF, BPA urine levels were inversely associated with # of eggs retrieved and peak estrogen levels. 🙈
So basically, HIGHER BPA = LOWER # of eggs and LOWER estrogen! (PMID 20002217) 🙉
And there's more - another study found that BPA was associated with recurrent miscarriages. (PMID 15947000) 🙊
Oh wait, there's more! Yet another study showed that there was an increased odds of implantation failure with higher BPA levels. (PMID 22484414). 😧
So what can you do? 🤗😎
👉Try your best to avoid plastics
👉Store food in glass, porcelain or stainless steel containers
👉Try to avoid buying foods packaged in plastic wrap (deli containers, etc)
👉Use reusable mesh produce bags instead of the plastic ones at the grocery store
👉Avoid canned foods - cook those beans at home!
👉Use stainless steel water bottles
👉Make nut butters, nut milks, yogurt, etc at home
👉NEVER MICROWAVE PLASTICS & keep plastics out of the heat in general
👉 Try to avoid touching receipts (and thermal paper in general).
❤️💜❤️

Dr. Kelly Head, ND

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