Naturopathy & Hormone Health

If you've been told your results are normal but you don't feel normal, that gap is worth investigating properly rather than guessing at.

Two naturopaths practise here, each with their own diary. Dr Miranda Myles is an integrative naturopath who has worked with more than twenty thousand patients across twenty-two years. Her approach is easy to describe and harder to do well: test, don't guess. A long history, real pathology, and a plan built on both.

Rebecca Geer is a Doctor of Chinese Medicine and naturopath who brings the principles of Traditional Chinese Medicine together with contemporary research, and her treatment may draw on Western herbal medicine, nutritional supplementation and dietary therapy. She is in clinic every day. Choose whoever suits you when you book.

Naturopathic care at Origia works alongside your medical care, never instead of it. With your consent, the people looking after you talk to each other.

Test, don't guess

A lot of natural health advice is generic: everyone gets the same list. Care here works the other way around. The consultation starts with a detailed history, then moves to objective data: blood work, and other pathology where it's genuinely indicated. If a test won't change the recommendation, it isn't ordered.

Where results already exist, they're read closely. A number sitting just inside a reference range can still be worth a conversation, particularly for iron stores, vitamin D, thyroid function and B12. That isn't a claim that standard ranges are wrong; it's an argument for looking at your results in the context of your symptoms, your cycle and what you're trying to do next.

What's commonly looked at

• iron studies, including ferritin, and the reasons behind low stores
• thyroid function, including antibodies where relevant
• vitamin D, B12 and folate status
• cycle patterns: length, ovulation, bleeding, pain and premenstrual symptoms
• blood sugar and metabolic markers relevant to cycle regularity
• digestion and absorption, because nutrients you can't absorb don't help you

Preconception, for both of you

Sperm and eggs both take months to develop, so preconception work is one of the few places where time is genuinely on your side. Both partners are seen where possible. That means nutrient status, alcohol and smoking, sleep, weight and stress load, and reviewing any supplements already in the cupboard. Often the useful outcome is stopping several of them.

Alongside IVF

If you're in a cycle or about to start one, the naturopathic role is supportive and deliberately conservative. The priorities are correcting genuine deficiencies, keeping nutrition steady through a demanding few weeks, and making sure nothing you're taking interferes with your medications. Your naturopath will pause or adjust anything that could complicate your treatment, and your fertility specialist stays in charge of the cycle.

Perimenopause

The years before menopause bring cycle changes, sleep disruption, mood shifts and new patterns in energy and weight. Testing here helps rule out other explanations, thyroid and iron in particular, before assuming everything is hormonal. From there, the plan is practical: sleep, nutrition, strength and stress, with clear referral back to your doctor when medical management is the better option.

How this sits with your medical care

Naturopathy at Origia is complementary care. It does not replace medical diagnosis or treatment, and nothing here treats or cures disease. If something in your history needs a doctor, your naturopath will say so and help you get there. Both work a few doors down from obstetricians, gynaecologists and fertility specialists, and with your consent share relevant information with them. You should never feel you have to choose between the two approaches. We'll talk through what's realistic for you, and what the evidence does and doesn't support.