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Personalized metrics to track your progress, establish baselines and illuminate targets for optimization.
Attend our Semi-annual DEXA scan event; Feb 24th. Sign up here for objective data on bone, muscle and fat type + distribution. Takes 7 minutes and will be onsite at Gingko for ease.
Follow our gaze.
This January, we invite you to “follow our gaze”. Caring for women for over two decades, I’ve noticed women are highly attuned to “self-improvement”. As such, we are uniquely vulnerable to the marketing of “new year, new you” and suggestion that resolutions are required to become one’s best self. However, consider “following our gaze”.
Turning Inward
"Interoception" is defined as the brain's ability to sense and interpret signals coming from inside one's body. Practicing this "inner gaze" improves nervous system regulation and develops refined attunement to honoring one's needs.
Experts in Female Longevity
We’re experts in Female Longevity. Longevity is a topic which has generated recent buzz. We toast the emphasis this topic brings to preventative health strategies in midlife. However, the research most quoted has been primarily performed on men and often lacks nuance.
Innovative Treatment tracks at GIM
What's new at Gingko? We've set intention to provide you with deeper sanctuary.
This week, we are adding PEMF infrared mats to our treatment tables. The vision is empathic conversations steeped in clinical experience from my 20+ years of practice.
Introducing: innovative program tracks designed to support YOU more comprehensively
Ritual Return
For years, we've noticed September is when women look to return. Return to themselves, emphasizing vitality and prioritizing growth. Patients present desiring partnership to maximize well-being; acknowledging what feels under-considered and less optimized. Women, who carry so much, allow themselves to be held in Gingko's "container".
Precision HRT: A Personalized Approach to Women's Hormone Health
At Gingko, we approach our clinical inquiry into each woman's physiology by "asking" via lab assessment and in-depth interview how she is unique. While we delight in more women gaining access to HRT (hormone replacement therapy), our niche is to make that prescription precise, organized around her physiologic needs. We don't apply protocols or rely on guesswork.
Welcome the light!
In Chinese medicine, spring is "wood" season- physiologically a time where we & the natural world are primed for innovation. Wood season can also be an erratic time: overcast rainy days give way to blue skies & lilac bloom. Spring is a fertile time for health initiative; light's spaciousness invites us to craft a path towards crafting our most vital selves.
Spring is upon us
At Gingko, we’ve been discussing what defines precision medicine... What it means to champion patients with comprehensively personalized care.
May’s play: Entraining your nervous system
Acupuncture provides an opportunity for down-shifting into the parasympathetic.
Here, the body engages its inherent capacity for healing. Whether it be restoration of hormone balance, sleep, relief from anxiety or hyper-vigilance, acupuncture provides immediacy. In today's world, demanding “immediate response”, what if we lean into that transition towards peacefulness? I relish in the certainty of a state shift for our patients. She who carried all the balls — at rest.
Precision Medicine at Gingko: studies in the "N of 1"
From early in clinical training, Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) demonstrated patient-specific care. One symptom has a myriad of physiological etiologies, endemic to each person. Rarely is there a common mechanism for a common symptom. Layers of educational pursuit and decades of patient interaction later, one commonality has rung true: There is nothing as effective clinically as the "N of 1" study.
Recovery 101
May these long lit days offer expansion, may that expanse translate to space for "recovery". Far more important than once considered, in the modern "sick care" model, recovery practices are foundational to sustainable physiologic resilience. Data persistently demonstrates a small percentage of attention to recovery has outsize health benefit.