Hope Press
The independent imprint behind the root-cause guides. Small, deliberately so, and built around one rule: if a book says the research shows something, you should be able to go and check.
What Hope Press is, plainly
Hope Press is my own imprint. It publishes my books and, for now, only my books. I would rather say that on the front page than let anyone assume there is a building full of editors behind it.
That matters because "published by" is a phrase people read as a credential, and in this corner of publishing it very often is not one. A great many health books carry an imprint name that exists solely to avoid the words "self-published." I am not doing that. The name on the spine is mine, the decisions are mine, and the mistakes are mine.
So the honest question is not who publishes these books. It is what the publisher actually guarantees. Below is the list, and it is the same list whether you buy a book here, on Amazon, or borrow it from a library.
What every Hope Press book carries
These are not aspirations. Each one is either in the book or the book does not go out.
Every book has
- A tag on nearly every factual claim, marking whether it was shown in people, observed only as an association, demonstrated in animals alone, tested and found not to hold, or simply not studied.
- A dagger where the evidence came from someone else — from men, or from women much older or younger than the reader. An enormous amount of women's health advice rests on research done in young men, and where that is true the book says so on the sentence itself.
- A counted tally of its own claims, made from the finished manuscript rather than estimated.
- Sources named at the end of each chapter, by DOI or PubMed record, so a claim can be checked without taking my word for it.
- A dated medical disclaimer and a plain statement of what my credentials are and are not.
No Hope Press book will
- Promise to cure, reverse, or treat a disease.
- Tell you to start, change, or stop a medication.
- Use a composite character or an invented patient story to make a point land harder.
- Cite a podcast, a blog post, or another book where a primary source was what the claim needed.
- Flatten unsettled research into "studies show." Where a field is genuinely undecided, the book says it is undecided.
The full method — where the evidence comes from, how each piece is reviewed, how AI is used in the research, and how errors get corrected — is set out separately.
The list
Seven books, written to be read in any order and to hand off to each other rather than repeat themselves.
Bad Medicine Blues
The root-cause approach to women's energy, hormones, and vitality. A revised and expanded edition is finishing, grown to 30 chapters with all 1,071 of its claims graded.
See the book →Your Body's Own GLP-1
The science of the Ozempic era, weighed fairly, and every natural way to support the GLP-1 your body already makes.
See the book →The Good Years
Healthspan, strength, and longevity written for a woman's body rather than a man's, with all 639 of its claims tagged for how good the evidence behind them actually is.
See the book →Worth Investigating
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 for the appointment.
See the book →The Muscle You Keep
What GLP-1 drugs and rapid weight loss do to muscle, and what women can do about it after 40. A book about strength rather than weight.
See the book →Still Normal
Insulin resistance, blood sugar, and prediabetes, for the years before a diagnosis when the labs read normal and the body already knows better.
Join the waitlistFine on Paper
Reading your own blood work: the general skill of making sense of a lab report, panel by panel, rather than one number at a time.
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Join the reader listRights, permissions, and review copies
Hope Press handles its own rights. If you are a journalist, a librarian, a book club, a clinician who wants to quote a passage, or a publisher interested in translation or audio rights, the contact form reaches me directly and I answer it myself.
- Review copies Available to reviewers, librarians, and health journalists. Say which title and which format suits you.
- Permissions Brief quotation in a review needs no permission. Anything longer, or any reproduction in teaching material, just ask — the answer is usually yes.
- Translation and audio rights Unsold for every title. Enquiries welcome.
- Corrections If a source does not say what a book claims it says, that is a defect and I want to know. Corrections are logged publicly, not quietly patched.
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