Sure.  Her name is Dr. Vanessa Nicholson.  Her practice is in  
Bellevue, WA, and she's actually an anti-aging doc,  I went to her  
regarding some hormonal issues I was having.    She did help me to  
begin to get to the bottom of the problems I have.  At the time I went  
to see her, I was having terrible migraines.  Though, the biggest  
problem I face, is essentially "syndrome X".  Call it what you like:  
insulin resistance, pre-diabetes, poly-cystic ovarian syndrome.   
Whatever.  It all comes down to sugar and eating too much of it for  
too many years.   But no more.  I'm done.

So far, on my first week of low-carb, I'm doing quite well, and I  
believe I will continue!   That said, I do intend to go back to Dr.  
Nicholson and discuss my diet.  But I think I'll give it some time  
first, so that I've got some perspective from which to discuss it.   
She never said she was solidly pro-Cordain or that she espoused one  
particular diet over another.  Only that she appreciated his  
perspective, and I should consider it.  I think she did agree with his  
stance that grains are a bad thing in the diet, though.

And she doesn't strike me as a dogmatic person.  So, I'm sure she'll  
be happy to discuss my diet with me when I'm ready.  Mostly, the vibe  
I got from her was that I should be an educated patient and understand  
the problem and solution rather than rely on any one particular source  
of information.  She wanted me to think for myself -- now there's an  
idea!  I don't know why more doctors aren't like that.  She also  
recommended reading Suzanne Sommers' book Breakthrough and taking up  
yoga.  All in all, I think she's a very cool woman.

I'm still working on the yoga part.  I'm not very flexible, but I  
try...  ;-)

On Aug 29, 2009, at 6:03 PM, Paleo Phil wrote:

>> A doctor I saw last summer had me read Cordain's book,
>
> Belinda, can you share what doctor this was?