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Dr. Carrie Jones, ND, MPH
Hormone Literacy
Welcome back to Dr. M’s Women and Children First, where we step back from symptoms and ask a more interesting question: how does the female hormonal system actually develop, adapt, and sometimes struggle across a lifetime?
Today’s conversation spans that entire arc, from early life, to puberty, to fertility and more with someone who has spent more than two decades living inside that complexity.
My guest is Dr. Carrie Jones, an internationally recognized speaker, consultant, author, and educator in women’s health and hormones. Many know her as the “Queen of Hormones,” but what really defines her work is not titles, it’s her ability to translate very complex endocrinology into biology that actually makes sense.
Dr. Jones is a naturopathic physician who completed a two-year residency focused on women’s health and endocrinology. She holds a Master of Public Health, was one of the very first clinicians to become board certified through the American Board of Naturopathic Endocrinology, and is a Menopause Society Certified Practitioner.
She helped shape how an entire generation of clinicians think about hormone testing and interpretation as the first Medical Director at Precision Analytical, the creators of the DUTCH test, and later as the first Head of Medical Education at Rupa Health. She’s served on Under Armour’s Human Performance Council, consulted for multiple women’s health and laboratory companies, and now serves as Chief Medical Officer at NuEthix Formulations.
Many of you will recognize her voice from the Root Cause Medicine Podcast, which reached more than ten million downloads, and she now hosts her own show, Hello, Hormones, where she continues to explore how hormones shape mood, metabolism, immunity, fertility, and aging.
But what makes today’s conversation especially important is this: we’re not just talking about menopause, or cycles, or lab values.
We’re asking a bigger question.
How have female hormones changed across generations?
How early life nutrition, stress, environment, and metabolic health shape the hormonal story from birth forward.
And how modern exposures, from ultra-processed diets to endocrine-disrupting chemicals, may be quietly rewriting the biology of women long before symptoms ever appear.
This is a systems-level conversation about development, resilience, and adaptation, and few people are better equipped to guide us through it than Dr. Carrie Jones.
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