Why some women in Singapore seem to have refined, expensive-looking skin without relying on heavy makeup — and what skin quality really means.

I ordered my first quarterly blood panel because I was writing my book and wanted to understand my own baseline before recommending anything to patients that I hadn’t applied to myself. That was straightforward enough. What I didn’t anticipate was how interesting the longitudinal data would become — not the absolute values, which were mostly within range, but the patterns. What moved, and when. What correlated with what. I ran […]

A patient asked me recently, with genuine frustration: “Why does nobody talk about testosterone in women?” She was 47. She had researched oestrogen extensively, was well-informed about progesterone, and had taken a proactive approach to her hormonal health. But testosterone had been conspicuously absent from every conversation she’d had, every article she’d read, every consultation she’d attended. She was right to be frustrated. Testosterone is produced in women — by […]