Alisha Ghajar

Alisha Ghajar is a naturopathic doctor who sees women in perimenopause and menopause from an office in Seattle, and by video for anyone living in Washington. Washington lets naturopaths prescribe, and she does prescribe hormone therapy, though she also runs a hormone-free track of food, movement, stress work and herbs for women who cannot or would rather not use hormones. First visits run 60 to 90 minutes, and you fill out long health questionnaires and upload past lab results before you come in. Once a woman is past menopause she shifts the focus to long-term risk, naming osteoporosis, heart disease and type 2 diabetes as what she wants to head off. Weight and body composition are a large part of the practice, and she will use weight-loss medication when nutrition and training are not enough. She does not work as a primary care doctor and asks every patient to keep their own PCP for anything outside her focus.

ND, MSCP