Doctor Nadia

His heart needed care. Her mind did too.

I watched my grandmother struggle with anger, irritability, rage and anxiety for more than 30 years—the same feelings I recognize in myself now, after menopause.

Losing weight is a lot simpler than you think. It starts with sitting down.

Simple does not mean easy. I want to say that up front, because if someone has spent years trying to lose weight, the last thing they need is another person telling them it should be easy.

We’ve Removed the Traffic Lights

Imagine explaining to your grandparents that we have removed every traffic light, stop sign, speed limit, and rule about who has the right of way. (Listen to https://youtu.be/iL0yYGhN2B4?is=LZvvQmaTRY84K5RXEpisode 7 of my Podcast). People can still drive. Most will even get where they are going. But every junction asks them to negotiate with everyone else, in real time. There will be more near misses, more collisions, and a lot more effort spent on a task that used to have a

Taming My Own Insulin Beast

My life’s passion is helping women understand their cravings and tame the insulin beast. I’ve been a naturopathic doctor for 22 years. I’ve written two books. I’ve coached hundreds of women through this exact thing. What I don’t usually talk about is why. It all started with a bag of Halloween candy I was a young girl with PCOS — though of course, I didn’t know that’s what it was yet. What I knew was that I’d go to bed with a bag of Halloween candy and wake up in a blanket of

INSULIN: The hormone behind cravings, weight and fertility.

When I do a search on my website, insulin comes up in a dozen blogs, and a hundred other times in different pages and resources. My recent blog posts "Don't feed the insulin beast" and "Everything sucks when insulin is high" highlight how insulin has become part of my daily language. I talk about insulin like it were my best friend, and at times, my archenemy. I'm very familiar with the hormone and how involved it is in our metabolic functions from head to toe, not just in bl

Everything SUCKS when insulin is high

I'm know within our program thefastingmethod.com and our community for making repetitive and sometimes funny statements. One of my all-time favourite sayings is "don't feed the insulin beast" and I wrote a blog post about this here. Lately I've been adding to that and saying "Everything SUCKS when insulin is high". I love seeing all the heads bob up and down in our community meetings when I say this. Our members know what I mean. "Your work sucks, your spouse sucks, having to