Dr. Ashley Alexis, ND

Dr. Ashley Alexis is a licensed naturopathic doctor in California and a member of the Golden Leaf Health care team, where she focuses on perimenopause and menopause. She reviews the clinical content on this site, and she is the clinician behind @menopausedoctor on TikTok, where she answers the questions women are too often told to just live with.

Training and licensure

• Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, Bastyr University San Diego, 2017. Bastyr is one of the accredited naturopathic medical schools in North America, with a four-year, science-based medical curriculum.
• Licensed naturopathic doctor in California. Dr. Alexis sees patients in California. Outside California, Golden Leaf’s care comes from a clinician licensed in your state, and she supports that care as part of the team; the current list of states is in the questions on our homepage.

How she practises

Dr. Alexis’s starting point is that women in the menopause transition are usually under-listened-to rather than under-tested. A first visit with her is a long conversation about your symptoms, your history and what you’ve already tried, before anything is prescribed or ordered. Treatment draws on the whole toolkit: hormone therapy when it’s the right tool, non-hormonal prescriptions when it isn’t, and evidence-based natural therapies for sleep, mood and metabolic health. Follow-ups adjust the plan as your body changes, because the first dose is rarely the final one.

Her aim, in her own words from the About page, is to help women address the root causes of menopause symptoms and live a long and healthy life full of purpose and love.

Elsewhere

• TikTok: @menopausedoctor, short, plain answers to the questions women ask about perimenopause and menopause.
• Instagram: @ndashley
• Dr. Alexis was a guest on Rupa Health’s Root Cause Medicine podcast.

Pages Dr. Alexis has reviewed

Every clinical page on this site shows who reviewed it and when. Dr. Alexis is the reviewer of record for the menopause symptom guides and most of the blog, including the supplements guide, the hormone testing guide, the BHRT vs HRT guide and the DUTCH test explainer.

The care team

Golden Leaf’s doctors, pharmacist and medical assistant work from one shared plan, so there is always someone who knows your story. Meet Dr. Steve Groke, MD and Mai Tran, PharmD, see how a visit works, or book a first visit.