'Wired but tired.' Brain fog and overwhelm. Awake at 3 in the morning. Your labs say 'normal' and you do not feel normal.
This is for women 35 to 65. I am Daniela Hess, and for over 25 years I have helped women make sense of what is happening in their bodies. I put it all in one place.
The Midlife Bible, $7: a PDF you keep, yours the moment you buy. The free guide: no cost, unsubscribe anytime.
Her knowledge combined with her own personal experience has helped me better understand what my body is going through and has reminded me that I am not alone.
It is the stretch between appointments. You are researching it midnight, guessing at what's changed, and with no one to ask until the next appointment finally arrives.
Midlife women, in my opinion, are very innocent. We're innocent in our not knowing all this because the conventional medical system has solidly failed.
You do not have to keep guessing.
The 1 hour 43 minute talk, The Entire Midlife Journey. Plus The Midlife Essentials, a 75-page PDF with your symptoms decoded, your Lab Wish List, and how to get your labs when your doctor says no. You walk into your next appointment knowing which labs to ask about.
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Your thyroid, your gut, your hormones, and your labs. I wrote it so you do not have to piece this together alone at 3 in the morning. A PDF you keep, yours the moment you buy.
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Your symptoms are the starting point, not your labs. I read anything you send beforehand, then go through your labs, your hormones, your thyroid, your adrenals, and your gut with you. I read every request myself.
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For over 25 years, I have helped women make sense of their labs, their hormones, and their symptoms. I live with Hashimoto's and hypothyroidism myself, so I know this firsthand.
Working with Daniela helped me realize that healing is about much more than managing symptoms. She has a deep reverence for both science and the wisdom of lived experience, helping me understand the connections between nutrition, stress, lifestyle, emotional well-being, and nervous system health.
Taking Daniela's Radiance Course was the BEST life decision! From start to finish Daniela inspired, encouraged, supported, uplifted and challenged me to create and embody the enchanted life I was seeking. As a teacher, Daniela is an articulate, knowledgeable, humble, passionate, professional as well as a master storyteller.
The Midlife Essentials, a 75-page PDF guide, plus the 1 hour 43 minute talk: your symptoms decoded, the labs to ask for, and how to get them when your doctor says no.
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The Midlife Bible is a PDF I wrote for women 35 to 65 and beyond. It covers your thyroid, your gut, your hormones, and your labs, with 50+ charts and concept diagrams and a clickable contents where every entry jumps to its chapter, so you can go straight to the symptom that is loudest for you. It costs $7 and you keep it. It is education to bring to your own practitioner, not medical advice.
A normal range describes where most people in a lab's reference group land. An optimal range asks where your number needs to sit for you to feel well. Ferritin, your iron storage, is the example I teach. A conventional range runs from about 15 to 200, so a ferritin of 17 reads as normal. Functional medicine practitioners often look for 70 or more, and trials of iron in menstruating women with fatigue found benefit at a ferritin of 50 or below. Your practitioner can help you read your own results.
Perimenopause can begin in your 30's and unfold over as many as 17 years, so it often starts long before anyone names it. It is the transition before menopause, and menopause means 12 months without a period. During that time estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone can all shift, and the symptoms can look like fatigue, brain fog, poor sleep, anxiety, or low mood.
Yes, it can. A struggling thyroid and perimenopause share fatigue, brain fog, hair loss, weight changes, low mood, and poor sleep, so it is easy to credit one for the other. I live with Hashimoto's myself. A full thyroid panel goes beyond TSH alone: TSH, free T3, free T4, reverse T3, TPO antibodies, and thyroglobulin antibodies. Studies find thyroid antibodies can appear years before TSH shifts, so a TSH that reads normal does not always settle the question. It is worth asking your practitioner about.
Ask for each test by name, and bring a written list so the request is specific. My free guide, The Midlife Essentials, includes the Lab Wish List for Midlife, a printable page to bring to your appointment, and how to get your labs when the answer is no. The Midlife Bible adds a chapter on what to say, how to request your records, and how to find a Functional Medicine practitioner.
The Midlife Essentials is a free 75-page PDF. It decodes your symptoms, from burnout and the 3 AM wake-up to hot flashes, brain fog, and hair loss, and shows how your hormones, thyroid, and gut connect. It includes your Lab Wish List. You also get the 1 hour 43 minute talk, The Entire Midlife Journey. Both come by email, and you can unsubscribe anytime.
Start with the free guide and talk, which cost nothing. If you want the whole picture, read The Midlife Bible for $7. If you learn better by watching, the 3 hour workshop with Kim Beekman is $28, and it includes The Midlife Bible. If you want to bring your own labs to me, a one-on-one is $250 for 60 to 90 minutes.
