trubow in a sentence

1. “That’s a woman who is experiencing perimenopause,” says Trubow.

2. Trubow says that after that hour people tend to get a second wind of cortisol.

3. “This is a woman who is burning through her reserves of cortisol and pregnenolone,” says Trubow.

4. Trubow says she generally starts with blood work and urine tests to check hormone levels; some practitioners also order saliva tests.

5. Of course, most cases aren't that simple, says Trubow, and women between the ages of 30 and 45 can be especially difficult to diagnose.

6. Many alternative practitioners—including Wendie Trubow, MD, who used to work as a mainstream Western gynecologist before she turned to functional medicine—disagree.

7. Trubow notes that Western doctors are skeptical about the reliability of such testing, but she believes that they're useful and adds that they're more routine in other countries, including Canada.