Spring is upon us
At Gingko, we’ve been discussing what defines precision medicine... What it means to champion patients with comprehensively personalized care.
Caring for women across their lives' "hormonal arc" has never been more compelling:
Sitting with young women at menarche; acquainting them with their incredible hormonal "machinery".
Laying groundwork towards women’s receptive + fertile selves, on their path towards parenting.
Entering the perimenopause gates and pro-offering insight on the 40+ hormonal milieu: stress, metabolism, recovery tools and bone density.
Holding space for navigating menopause— the “Second Spring” in Chinese medical thought.
These days, women are hearing a lot about HRT.
Women’s health SHOULD be common parlance. Clinically, however, we see great importance in nuance when it comes to HRT's application.
Each woman has a unique recipe of reproductive hormones. Estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and insulin PLUS their ensuing choreography. Protocol-based treatment, without testing, is the conventional approach. For some women, that works. However, every week we see women for whom that isn’t nuanced enough.
Women have an innate capacity to endure; part of our job is to make sure they don’t accept care which has them underserved.
Drawing from ancient Chinese scholars and overlaying modern physiology is foundational to Ginkgo's work. We look not only at discrete hormone levels, but how a body receives and detoxifies hormones. We develop a plan that originates from understanding her unique picture.
We consider how care today may inform her in 30 years. This is a responsibility we take most personally — the heart of precision medicine.
A reminder that April 1st, our follow up acupuncture rate will rise for the first time since 2020. The new rate will be $145. Thank you for your ongoing support.
Setting intention that you might relish in Spring's wildflowers bloom. Perhaps consider how you, too, may grow and transform.. Witnessing expansions in our patients' health (and the agency it provides them) is truly what thrills us most.
Warmly, Rachel Schaefer LAc FABORM