09/19/2025
A woman presents to a providers office with symptoms of big mood fluctuations, cycle variances, hair loss, rapid weight gain with no diet or lifestyle changes. She has a 7 and 2 year old and just wants to be able to function optimally so she can show up for herself and her family at her best.
7 minutes, lab work, and a few mental health screening questions later, she left waiting for her bloodwork to come back.
Days later, she got a call from the providers office to inform her that her labs and hormones are normal and was sent a prescription for anti-anxiety.
What’s missing?
What’s missing is a key aspect in maternal health and gap that must be bridged for women everywhere in America.
We need a multidisciplinary approach to women’s health where providers lean on and refer out to specialist like pelvic floor therapists, nutritional support, functional medicine providers for root cause investigation, mental health professionals where together they serve the whole woman.
With an individualized approach, looking at minerals and vitamin deficiencies and daily habits, this woman in the story gained better insight into her nutrition gaps and what her body was doing under chronic stress. From there, she could begin using the tools to support her body and mood better.
That woman was me. I never picked up the prescription because I felt there was something at the root of what I was dealing with and there was.
wrote a wonderful piece about maternal mental health and the very key nutrition component that we are missing in women’s health. She gave me guidance and insight that I was later able to revisit my provider a year later and talk about the deficiencies I had and what a difference it made when I filled those gaps with nutrition and lifestyle.
I hope this article that Brit wrote gives someone somewhere clarity and a soft space to land🫶🏽 and thanks for breaking this down so simply.
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