Lara Briden
Lara Briden is a naturopathic doctor with more than 25 years of experience in women's health. Her books Period Repair Manual, Hormone Repair Manual, and Metabolism Repair for Women are practical guides to better health using nutrition, supplements, and body-identical hormones.
With a strong science background, Lara sits on several advisory boards and is the lead author of a couple of peer-reviewed papers about polycystic ovary syndrome.
Lara is Canadian but spent a couple of decades in Sydney, Australia. She currently has consulting rooms in Christchurch, New Zealand, where she treats women with PCOS, PMS, endometriosis, perimenopause, and many other hormone- and period-related health problems.
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