I’m Gretchen Jones

I became a 36-year-old widow in 2001 and had just started physician assistant medical school training when my husband died. We had two children ages 9 and 5 when he passed away. In 2003, I finished my education and residency program and began working full time. I found love again and had two more children in 2005 and 2007 when I was 40 and 42. Then in 2008, symptoms began. I was having heart palpitations, extreme insomnia, migraine headaches, low libido, joint aches, brain fog, hair loss, dry skin, dry eyes, weight gain around my midsection, crepey skin on my abdomen, mood swings with anxiety and panic attacks, and just overall felt irritable and horrible. I do what I do now because I’ve come out on the other end and have completely wiped out all those symptoms I listed above and have maintained health and vitality since my journey began in 2008, over ten years ago. Let me show you how you can do the same, so it inspires you to take care of your health and hormones too.

Here is the short story

I am a Certified Physician Assistant accredited by the National Committee on Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA). I received my education from Midwestern University in Downers Grove Illinois Campus. Before becoming a physician assistant, I was a financial analyst in a fast paced commercial real estate career for CB Commercial and mother of two young boys. I decided to quit my job to go into healthcare and went to school for an emergency medical technician and did volunteer work while returning back to University for undergraduate pre-med training in Exercise Physiology. I got my bachelor of science in Exercise Physiology with a minor in Organic Chemistry in 1999 and applied to one PA school in 2000 and started classes 2001.

Life’s Journey

My own life has not been easy. I have always enjoyed good health and was not very familiar with the medical world since I was usually healthy. However, when my hormones began to decline, the medical world failed me and almost made me worse.