The Dr. Archers Root-Cause Guides

Books for women who were told their labs are normal

Calm, well-researched guides to feeling like yourself again. Written from both sides of the exam-room table, with no hype and no fear-selling. Start with the first below. More are on the way.

All of them published by Hope Press, my own independent imprint — and what that does and does not guarantee is set out plainly there.

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Bad Medicine Blues

The Natural, Root-Cause Approach to Women's Energy, Hormones, and Vitality

The level-headed, science-grounded guide for women who are tired of being told their bloodwork is normal while they feel anything but. 29 chapters, 38 recipes, and week-by-week protocols, written for women in perimenopause and beyond.

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Bad Medicine Blues by Rev. Dr. LaVeena B. Archers — book cover

Also from Dr. Archers

The shelf is growing. Your Body's Own GLP-1 is here now, a revised Bad Medicine Blues is finishing, and there is more on the way.

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Bad Medicine Blues

The calm, well-researched map of the root-cause approach to women's health, for anyone tired of being told their bloodwork is normal. On sale now. A revised and expanded edition is finishing behind it, grown to 30 chapters with all 1,071 of its claims labeled for how well the evidence supports them.

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Your Body's Own GLP-1

If the weight-loss injections and peptides have you curious, this is the complete, well-researched picture: the science of the Ozempic era, and every natural way to support the GLP-1 your body already makes. Fair to the medicine, candid about the limits of the natural path.

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The Good Years

Book Two of the Root-Cause Guides. The evidence-based longevity guide written for a woman's body, not a man's. Thirty-six chapters on the levers that actually move healthspan, honest about the many times the truest answer is "save your money." All 639 claims tagged for how good the evidence really is.

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Still Normal

A root-cause guide to insulin resistance, blood sugar, and prediabetes, for the years before a diagnosis when your labs read normal and your body already knows better. Every claim graded for how well the evidence actually supports it, the same careful way as the rest of the shelf.

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Worth Investigating

A root-cause guide to reading your own symptoms: what they mean, what to ask, and when to stop looking. Twelve symptom chapters, each ending in a one-page Signal Card you can take to the appointment. For the part before a diagnosis, when all you have is the thing you can feel.

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