Women were kept out of early drug trials from 1977 to 1993 for being "too variable."
When someone finally checked, across 311 studies, females were no more variable than males.
Becker, Prendergast and Liang, Biology of Sex Differences 2016.
Kristy King, MD
Board-certified physician for the female brain.
Hormones, mood, sleep and the medications in between. Video visits in 12 states.
Board-certified in family medicine. Fellowship-trained in integrative medicine.
Book a visitWhat I help with
My focus is the female brain. It changes with every cycle, every pregnancy and menopause, and medicine still doses it like a man's.
Perimenopause and menopause.
The hot flashes, the 3 a.m. wake-ups, the rage you don't recognize.
Mood and anxiety.
Including the kind your last doctor called stress.
Sleep.
The thing everything else depends on.
Medication reviews, including antidepressants and stimulants.
Is it still doing anything for you? Let's find out.
Hormones.
Estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and thyroid, prescribed when they fit and explained either way.
Studied last
Your brain was the last thing they checked.
The female brain changes shape with the cycle, pregnancy and menopause. Neuroscience studied it last. Medicine still doses it like a man's, then calls you complicated.
Women make up 70% of reported cases of a dangerous heart rhythm triggered by heart medications.
A woman's electrical sensitivity to those drugs shifts across her cycle, and drug safety testing mostly ignores the cycle.
When Scottish hospitals adopted a woman's threshold for a heart attack blood test, five times as many women as men were newly found to have heart injury.
A year later those women were doing no better, because finding them changed nothing about how they were treated.
The average patient does not exist.
A person's own day-to-day variation is about eight times larger than the differences between people. A trial's average can describe nobody in it.
Turns out the problem with women in research was the research.
See all the receiptsThe labs nobody ran
Your doctor checked a hemoglobin and called it a day. I check what actually explains why you're exhausted, foggy, anxious or not yourself.
Thyroid, all of it.
TSH, free T4, free T3 and antibodies. Not just the one number that comes back "normal" while you feel like wet cement.
Iron and ferritin.
Because "your blood count is fine" is not the same as "you have enough iron." The cutoff for women was doubled in 2026. Fifty years late.
B12 and vitamin D.
Cheap tests. Skipped constantly.
Inflammation.
hs-CRP, because a fire you can't see still burns.
Your heart, properly.
ApoB, Lp(a) and homocysteine. Cholesterol is the headline. These are the story.
Your hormones, the whole cast.
Estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, SHBG, DHEA-S, FSH and LH, measured where they help answer the question. Perimenopause is diagnosed by how you feel and what your cycle is doing, not by one blood draw on one random Tuesday. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling a test.
You're not crazy. You were under-tested.
How it works
- 1.
Book.
Send me two or three dates and times. I reply by email with your invoice, and your visit is confirmed once it's paid.
- 2.
A long first visit by video.
Your labs and a few at-home measurements come first. Then ninety minutes with me, start to finish.
- 3.
A written plan.
Your body, explained in plain English, in a report that is yours to keep. The decisions stay with you.
- 4.
Follow-up.
If you want to come off a medication, we do it slowly, over ninety days. If you want the deep version, there's the Week.
- Terrain Assessment: labs, measurements, a 90-minute visit and your written report
- $2,500
- Taper: 90 days, visits every two weeks, messaging in between
- $3,500
- The Week, January 2027
- $8,900, lodging separate
Flat fees. No insurance billed. The Terrain Assessment is credited in full to the Week if you book within 90 days.
Book a visitAbout me
I'm a board-certified family physician, fellowship-trained in integrative medicine through the University of Arizona, with advanced training in bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. I hold medical licenses in twelve states. A big part of my residency was psychiatry, and mental health has been at the center of my work ever since. I also facilitate the Week, a women's immersion at Mauna Lani. I live on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi. I take my time, I explain everything in plain English, and I don't write a prescription to end a visit faster.
More about my workHow I work
Mechanism gets a citation. Every claim about how the body works carries a grade you can check.
History gets a document. Every claim about what was done to women carries the record.
The sacred gets my own voice. When I speak of source, of rhythm, of the shadow, I say it as mine, and I never dress it up as data.
I won't tell you cancer isn't real, that medicine never works, or that science is fake. I'll show you the record in plain language, and the decisions stay yours.
I don't heal anyone. You do.
The Week
Eight women. Sunday to Friday at Mauna Lani. Ninety days of care after you leave.
See the WeekPsychedelic medicine is coming
Psilocybin, MDMA and ibogaine are being studied seriously again for depression, trauma and addiction, after decades on the shelf. I'm following the research closely and building toward offering this work legally and safely. When it's ready, you'll hear it here first.
You will also hear from Dr. King now and then.
Why I practice this way
94% vs 51%
In the medical journals, 94% of antidepressant trials looked positive. By the FDA's own count, 51% were. I've prescribed these. Then I read the trials nobody published.
Turner et al., New England Journal of Medicine 2008.
Read the receipts