Jennifer Goldstock NP

Ladies- did you know low estrogen could be affecting you without you even realizing it? 🌸

Symptoms like brain fog, hot flashes, and night sweats might be your body’s way of signaling a change. ☝🏼

Don’t ignore them! It’s so important to reach out to your healthcare professional if you’re experiencing any of these signs.

Follow for more tips on how to feel your best and embrace this stage of life fully! 🤝💕

Our World Menopause Day Webinar is TODAY! ⚡️

Whether you’re joining us for our FREE Webinar, or going about your normal lives, remember this: you’re a strong, beautiful woman with so much potential. ✨

Our hormone health is important - our well being, our health mentally and physically, is so crucial to a happy life.

There is still some time to join us and receive practical resources to help you thrive during menopause. Let’s embrace our menojourney together with education, empowerment, and community. 🤝🏻🌸

Join me and some of the top experts in the field, for our FREE World Menopause Day Virtual Live Event today, from 9 AM - 12 PM PST / 12 - 3 PM EST! ⌨️💻

Don’t miss out—you can still register now at the link in my bio. ☝🏼

Our World Menopause Day Webinar is TWO DAYS AWAY- there is still time to snag your seat! 👇🏼

We will be sharing space featuring some of the experts in this field along with me: Esther Blum, MS, RD, CDN, CNS, Jill Chmielewski, RN, BSN, MJ, and Suzanne Fenske, MD, FACOG, ABOIM, MSCP!

Join us, some of the top experts in the field, for a FREE World Menopause Day Virtual Live Event on October 16th from 9 AM - 12 PM PST / 12 - 3 PM EST! 🕐

Let’s embrace our menojourney together with education, empowerment, and community. 🤝❤️

Bonus: All attendees will receive exclusive giveaways and practical resources to help you thrive during menopause! ✨

Don’t miss out—register now at the link in my bio. ☝🏼

Nutrition is key to thriving during menopause and as we age in general.

Prioritizing a balanced diet rich in vitamins, minerals, protein- these things support hormone balance, bone health, and energy levels. Remember— what we fuel our bodies with today impacts how we feel tomorrow. Let’s enjoy these times in our lives with strength, grace, and vitality. 🍎💪🏻

Additionally, if you’d like to learn more about menopause, tips and tricks, join me and some of my colleagues who are experts in the field on October 16 for world menopause day, linked to register is in my bio. 👆🏼

Have you signed up for our World Menopause Day Webinar yet? 👇🏼

Join me and my incredible colleagues, some of the top experts in the field, for a FREE World Menopause Day Virtual Live Event on October 16th from 9 AM - 12 PM PST / 12 - 3 PM EST!

Let’s embrace our menojourney together with education, empowerment, and community. I am excited to share the schedule, featuring some of the experts in this field along with me: Esther Blum, MS, RD, CDN, CNS,Lindsey Berkson, MA, DC, CNS, DACBN, Jill Chmielewski, RN, BSN, MJ, and Suzanne Fenske, MD, FACOG, ABOIM, MSCP

✨ Bonus: All attendees will receive exclusive giveaways and practical resources to help you thrive during menopause!

Don’t miss out—register now at the link in my bio and grab your seat! ✨

Join me and my incredible colleagues, some of the top experts in the field, for a FREE World Menopause Day Virtual Live Event on October 16th from 9 AM - 12 PM PST / 12 - 3 PM EST!

Let’s embrace our menojourney together with education, empowerment, and community. We will have live talks with a Q&A session to get your burning questions answered, cutting-edge discussions from the five leading hormone experts covering: Better sleep, losing the menopot, Choosing the right HRT, navigating advocacy at the doctor’s office …and so much more.

You’ll connect with a community of inspiring women ready to uplift each other.

Featured Experts along with me: Esther Blum, MS, RD, CDN, CNS,Lindsey Berkson, MA, DC, CNS, DACBN, Jill Chmielewski, RN, BSN, MJ, and Suzanne Fenske, MD, FACOG, ABOIM, MSCP

✨ Bonus: All attendees will receive exclusive giveaways and practical resources to help you thrive during menopause!

Don’t miss out—register now at the link in my bio and grab your seat! Remember, this is all about sharing the story that menopause can be one of the greatest times of your life.

When it comes to testing your thyroid health, here are 2 key things to keep in mind:

1. Normal does NOT mean optimal! If you get “normal” results but still feel your health concerns are unresolved, you should advocate for a deeper dive.

2. Most doctors in the conventional setting will only order a TSH or a Free T4 level. This only gives part of the picture. For a complete overview of your thyroid health you should ask your provider to order all 6 tests.

One of my favorite things to do is read I particularly love soaking up the science 🧬 about women’s health and functional medicine. There is so much wonderful information available to us today. Technology has given us everything at our fingertips. Call me old fashioned but I still love a good book 📖. Knowledge is power when it comes to advocating for yourself at the doctors 🥼 office and when making decisions about your health. Women are too often gas lit by their doctors when looking for answers about their symptoms in menopause and peri menopause. Here are 3 books every woman should have in her arsenal. These babies are chocked full of the information you need to make the best decisions for yourself and your health. Remember KNOWLEDGE IS POWER!

I have a love hate relationship with wine 🍷. I LOVE it and HATE the fact that it is not considered a SUPERFOOD 🥒🥕🥬.

One thing that has become very consistent in the last 2 years (since Covid) is that people are consuming much more alcohol than prior to the pandemic. While I admit I was one of those people, I realized it was becoming too much of a regular habit. Don’t get me wrong..I still enjoy an occasional glass or two of wine however…..given the facts below…I have decided to make it ON OCCASION (kind of like birthday cake…which I also wish were a superfood and is not! Especially the gluten free kind with the white buttercream frosting…April 8 can’t come soon enough!).

Here are some compelling reasons to limit or even avoid (did I say avoid?) alcohol: 🍷 One additional benefit of aging and especially being a woman (lucky us) is that we don’t process alcohol as well as we used to. Our livers are not the super heroes they used to be. 🍷 Alcohol brings our metabolism to a screeching halt! The belief is that is slows down your fat burning machine by a whopping 70 percent for around 24 hours. Now, if you are having a glass or two or three….every night….you can kiss your fat burning days good bye!
🍷 Alcohol is associated with a significantly increased risk of breast cancer.

That being said…1-2 drinks per week (yes, I said PER WEEK) is probably OK for most of us (this is not to replace advice from your doc). However, if you have an increased risk of breast cancer in your family, an addictive personality, difficulty detoxing or a number of other risk factors…it is probably best to avoid it all together.

Since 1988, World AIDS Day has been celebrated annually on December 1st. It is an opportunity for us to continue to raise awareness and continue to support the fight against AIDS. I use this day annually to remember so many dear friends who lost their battle with this disease early on and to pray for those still afflicted. I am grateful for the advancements in treatment and prevention and pray for a cure someday soon.

Did you know that approximately 80-90% of the worlds population has been exposed to EBV? 🦠 One of the number one complaints we hear from patients is FATIGUE, and very often we find reactivated Epstein Barr Virus (EBV) in their lab work up. UNFORTUNATELY, EBV is not generally recognized as a treatable illness in conventional medicine.

🦠 Once the virus enters our bodies it has to get into our cells to replicate.  It has to go through our immune system in order to do that, so maintaining a healthy, strong immune system is KEY! If our immune system is burdened by stress, poor diet, other opportunistic infections (think Lyme disease and other stealth pathogens) and lack of sleep…then EBV can easily slide in and do it’s thing. Symptoms are generally due to our immune system reacting to the virus (not the virus itself)

🦠EBV is a member of the herpes virus family. Herpes viruses LOVE the mucous membranes and the nervous system.  Herpes simplex 1 and 2 have an affinity for mucous membranes (think canker sores and STD herpes)

🦠 Let’s look at  3 COMMON TYPES OF EBV:
1. ACUTE ILLNESS - lasts 2-4 weeks generally
2. Chronic active illness - lasts 3-6 months
3. DORMANT ILLNESS - no symptoms. Minds it’s own business

🦠 REACTIVATED EBV is suspected when someone has both SYMPTOMS + ABNORMALLY HIGH LABS

🦠 TESTING:
•EBV VCA IgM - positive if current active infection.  Can have false positive if over age 60 or in presence of another infection
•EBV VCA IgG - always positive
•EBNA - Always positive
•EBV EA IgG - generally indicates active virus replication
•EBV PCR - looks at quantity of virus
•CBC - look at white blood cells, lymphocytes and neutrophils

🦠TREATMENT:
Oftentimes the virus resolves on it’s own. However…treatment is at times indicated. 
•ANTIVIRALS are sometimes used “off label” to knock back the viral load.  Supplements such as Monolaurin can have a similar effect.  
•VITAMINS AND MINERALS - particularly vitamin A, D, C and Zinc
•LOTS OF REST AND NUTRIENT DENSE FOODS. 

🦠 Work with a functional medicine practitioner who is knowledgeable in this area of medicine.  Remember…it’s generally not just EBV…look at root cause of re-activation.