About Me

I’m not a doctor, scientist or nutritionist. I’m a woman trying to understand her own body, and I created BioHackH3r for other women who are doing the same.

I have rheumatoid arthritis and Raynaud’s, I’m currently dealing with borderline Hashimoto’s, and so far this year I’ve had two miscarriages while trying to conceive.

Those experiences have changed the way I think about health.

I believe conventional medicine is extraordinary at what it was largely built to do: deal with acute emergencies, diagnose disease and intervene when something has already gone wrong. If I break a bone, need surgery, develop a serious infection or have a medical emergency, I want modern medicine.

But when it comes to prevention, chronic illness, fertility, hormones, inflammation, energy and understanding why something might be happening in the first place, I don’t believe the system always looks at enough of the picture.

And that means I believe we have a responsibility to become active participants in our own health.

For me, that has meant becoming an informed patient.

I keep every blood test. I track my results over time instead of looking at each test as an isolated snapshot. I compare trends. I read the research. I ask why something has changed. I look at hormones, thyroid function, inflammation, nutrients, genetics, fertility, metabolism and the immune system as interconnected pieces of the same human body.

Then I take that information to my doctors and ask questions.

Sometimes lots of questions.

I don’t want to walk into a consultation and simply ask, “Am I within the reference range?”

I want to understand what is happening in my body, what might be driving it, what has changed over time and what options exist to improve it.

That doesn’t mean rejecting doctors. Quite the opposite.

I believe the best healthcare comes from combining an informed patient with excellent practitioners. I want doctors who know things I don’t know, challenge my thinking when I’m wrong, investigate properly and are willing to have a conversation about the bigger picture.

At the same time, I don’t believe thousands of years of human knowledge should automatically be dismissed because it didn’t originate in a pharmaceutical laboratory.

So I explore Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). I explore Ayurveda. I look at nutrition, movement, sleep, circadian biology, herbs, traditional remedies and other forms of natural body support. I’m interested in the ancient practices humans used long before modern medicine existed, and whether modern science can explain why some of them may work.

Some will turn out to be brilliant.

Some will probably turn out to be bullshit.

That’s the point of this blog: to find out which is which.

I’m equally interested in questioning modern health claims. A published study does not automatically make something true. I want to know how the study was designed, how big it was, what it actually found, whether the conclusion matches the data, who funded it and whether anyone involved stands to profit from a particular outcome.

Commercial funding does not automatically make research bad, just as “natural” does not automatically make something safe or effective. Context matters.

BioHackH3r sits somewhere in the middle.

Science and ancient wisdom.
Blood tests and body awareness.
Doctors and personal responsibility.
Conventional medicine and natural support.
Research and lived experience.

I also studied Exercise Science, and for years my biggest health struggle was actually energy.

I love training. I’ve lifted weights, trained for sprint triathlons, experimented with keto, dieted for bikini competitions and pushed my body extremely hard. Sometimes I became leaner. Sometimes I became fitter. But I also learned that looking fit and actually being healthy are not necessarily the same thing.

There were periods when I could finish a morning training session and then need to sleep for 30 minutes just to function. If I didn’t, my brain barely worked for the rest of the day.

That made me start asking different questions.

Not just, How do I lose weight?

But:

Why am I so tired? Why is my immune system attacking my body? What are my hormones doing? How does female biology change after 35? What affects egg quality? What supports fertility? What role does inflammation play? And what conditions does the body need in order to function, repair and regulate itself as well as possible?

Now, at 38, trying to conceive after pregnancy loss while managing autoimmune disease has made those questions even more important.

So this blog is my investigation.

I’ll share what I’m learning, the research I find, my blood results, things I try, conversations I have with doctors and practitioners, what appears to help me and what turns out to be a complete waste of time.

There will be science here. There will also be anecdotal experience, because individual humans are not clinical trials.

I will always try to make the distinction clear.

Most importantly, this is not a space for perfection, fear or judgement.

You don’t have to be anti-medicine to question medicine.
You don’t have to reject science to explore traditional healing.
You don’t have to accept every wellness trend because it is labelled “natural”.

And you certainly don’t have to sit quietly and wait for someone else to become as invested in your health as you are.

Nobody will ever know your body quite like you do.

Learn it. Track it. Question things. Read widely. Find great practitioners. Ask better questions.

Because the more informed you become, the better equipped you are to advocate for yourself.

Welcome to BioHackH3r.

An empowering, inclusive, no-bullshit exploration of female health, autoimmunity and fertility.

Let’s figure this out.

La x