Aesthetics
Botox vs Fillers: What Each One Actually Fixes
Botox relaxes the muscles that crease your skin, fillers replace lost volume. What each is FDA approved for, what is off-label, and the red flags to know.
The Journal
Field notes on feeling like yourself again
Clear, root-cause guidance on hormones, weight, gut health and aesthetics, written and reviewed by Krishna Borges, MSN, APRN.
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Gut health
Probiotics: What the Evidence Actually Supports
Probiotics help in a few specific situations and do little in most others. What the gastroenterology guidelines actually say, and how to choose honestly.
Gut health
Elimination Diets: When They Help and When They Hurt
When an elimination diet is a useful short-term test, when it does real harm, and the reintroduction step almost everyone skips.
Gut health
Reflux That Is Not Just Acid: Finding the Root Cause
Not all reflux is an acid problem. What hiatal hernia, slow emptying and nerve sensitivity actually explain, and the red flags that need a scope first.
Hormones
Questions to Ask Before You Start Hormone Therapy
Seven questions that separate a careful hormone prescriber from a sales pitch, covering testing, monitoring, pellets and how you stop.
Hormones
How Long Hormone Therapy Takes to Work
A symptom by symptom timeline for hormone therapy: what shifts in the first weeks, what takes months, and when no response means something else.
Hormones
TRT and Fertility: What Men Are Not Told
Testosterone therapy suppresses sperm production in most men. What the evidence says about recovery, hCG and protecting fertility before you start.
Weight loss
GLP-1s During Perimenopause: What Changes and What Does Not
GLP-1 medications still work in perimenopause. What changes is muscle: the transition costs lean mass on its own, so protein and training come first.
Weight loss
Weight Loss Plateaus on a GLP-1: Why They Happen
A plateau on semaglutide or tirzepatide is expected physiology, not failure. Why it happens, when it arrives, and when it is worth investigating.
Weight loss
What to Eat While You Are on a GLP-1
Protein first, fiber and fluids on purpose, and enough total food. What to eat on semaglutide or tirzepatide, plus the red flags that need a clinician.
Weight loss
Compounded Semaglutide vs the Brand Name in Florida: What Changed
The FDA ended routine compounding of semaglutide copies in 2025. What that means in Florida, the narrow exception left, and the risks worth knowing.
Hormones
What a Full Hormone Panel Actually Measures
Thyroid, sex hormones, LH and FSH, SHBG, cortisol and metabolic markers, read together. What a full hormone panel covers, and what it cannot tell you.
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