Dr. Fiona McCulloch is a licensed Naturopathic Doctor and Registered Acupuncturist. She has a special interest in fertility, women’s health, PCOS and hormone health. Dr. Fiona is involved in research, and has authored an amazon best seller, 8 Steps to Revers your PCOS (selling over 29 thousand copies) as well as major research-based articles to advance practitioner knowledge in this field.
She was the original author of the White Lotus blog and has written quite a few articles both here and elsewhere on the web.
Please enjoy the articles below. The search bar below searches the entire site, but is available if you are looking for a specific topic.
Knowing which test to order for insulin resistance can be confusing and negative tests for diabetes can be misleading. This article summarizes with accuracy which are the best tests to order to know definitively if you have insulin resistance and risks for metabolic conditions like diabetes.
The immune system is divided into 2 segments – the innate and the adaptive immune
Food Insulin Demand – A Dietary Metric for PCOS and Metabolic Health PCOS includes distressing
Dr. Fiona goes into some of the underlying mechanisms of how the microbiome affects our metabolic health. The drug, Metformin, illustrates this connection through it’s antibiotic effects.
An examination of the nutritional and hormonal causes of hair loss in women, along with natural treatments. Part 1 of a 2 part series.
Learn more about the underlying causes of PCOS – the dysfunction of our fat cells – not often thought as functional – they are actually an endocrine organ that has a profound effect on our entire bodies. Women with PCOS have fundamental differences in the ways that the fat cells function.
