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Dagmara Beine

PA-C, PhD. A decade in emergency medicine. A decade in integrative medicine. Eleven years walking alongside my daughter through cancer. Writing about grief, women's health, and the truth about healing.

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WHAT I DID NEXT: THE PLANS BEHIND THE FIVE STORIES

Tuesday I told you what was missed. Today I’ll show you how I think.

Her Ferritin Was 2. Nobody Knew.

Five patients from my practice this year, and the reason I keep telling you to learn your labs.

How to Mimic a GLP-1 With Real Life Work

Tuesday I showed you the magic was never in the pen. Today I show you how to build it yourself.

Shortcuts Have Consequences

Ozempic changed medicine. Retatrutide, the new one still in trials, promises even bigger numbers. But the drug was never the magic. The metabolic improvement is the magic, and the drug is just one way

This Is How Working With a Practitioner Should Feel

You deserve to know what’s possible.

Your Body Thinks You’re Still Running From the Tiger

How to move your nervous system out of survival mode, with the research to prove these simple tools work

“It’s Just Stress.”

Why those three words are dismissing the biggest health problem almost nobody is treating

20 Years of Ordering Tests: My Honest Ranking of All 11

What I order, what I send patients for, what I have never had done myself, and the three I will not let anyone waste money on.

11 Things That Made Your Labs Look Bad (That Have Nothing To Do With Your Health)

Somebody asked me last week if dehydration could throw off their labs.

What to Do When Your Lipid Panel Comes Back Flagged

The tool I built to read a lipid panel the way I read one. Paste your labs and go.

Your Total Cholesterol Number Tells Me About as Much as Your Height

What cholesterol does, why low isn't winning, and the tests to ask for before you start a drug you'll take for thirty years.

The Tool That Reads Your Thyroid Labs The Way I Do

Most thyroid problems are missed by a normal TSH. Here’s the tool that catches what it doesn’t.

What’s Actually Causing Your Thyroid Disease

Nobody gets Hashimoto’s out of nowhere. Here’s the full list of causes. Then I’ll show you where you’re being exposed and what to use instead.