About Sheila
Can gaining control of your hormones really change your life? Yes.
I’m Sheila Jackson. I teach ambitious women over 40 navigating menopause which metabolic levers to pull, which to lay off, and how to restore a true state of wellness as they age.
But I started just like you: a woman in an exam room, told my labs were “normal” and “manage stress.”
- Entrepreneur & CEO
- Published in DCEO & Forbes
- 2019 Texas Businesswoman of the Year
- 2018 Great Women of Texas Honoree
- 2017 Fort Worth Woman of the Year
My story
It took four doctors before one of them ran the right labs.
I had a husband, four kids, three grandkids, two dogs, a nationwide telehealth practice, a construction company, and a team of people counting on me. I know what load bearing looks like for a woman, and what it costs her body.
Mine stopped responding. My motivation drained away. My mood swung in ways I didn’t recognize. I stopped sleeping. I was a board-certified practitioner running my own clinical practice, and I could not get an answer about my own body.
I saw three physicians before the fourth. Dr. Shelley Lenamond listened, ran the labs, and was the first to confirm what I had been navigating for years: menopause.
I refuse to accept that the decline is simply normal aging. It may be the average experience in our culture. It doesn’t have to be yours. I asked the questions most women are too discouraged to ask. What I had learned in the years before it framed my working hypothesis, the push-collapse phenomenon. Watching it converge with my own post-reproductive years shaped the method I developed and teach now. The full story is in Vital Signs.
Why clients call me Sherpa Sheila
I am her, just further up the mountain.
A Sherpa doesn’t point at the mountain from base camp. She lives on it. She has made the climb, she knows where the footing gives way and where the weather turns, and she carries part of the load while you climb it yourself.
That’s my work. I know the physiological terrain because I’ve crossed it, and I’m in it with you until you want to traverse it on your own.
I’ve made this climb myself.
I’m still on the mountain, and I always will be.
Menopause isn’t a season you pass through, either. For women who live long enough, this hormone-insufficient state is where you’ll spend the last 30 to 40% of your life.
Vital aging isn’t a peak you reach and leave. It’s terrain you learn to live on.
What the climb looks like in data
I teach what I live.
- 56Chronological age
- 42Hume-estimated metabolic age, monitored alongside DEXA body composition
- 28Calculated Levine PhenoAge
Personal metrics shared as context, with the estimate or calculation named. They are not a universal or definitive measure of biological age.
Better just keeps getting better
When I focused on better hormone health, everything else followed.
A better family life. Better energy. Better health. Better body composition. Better sex. Better relationships. Better impact. A better career.
Better just keeps getting better.
Medical respect
Not a physician. Something equally necessary.
“Sheila is not a physician or a nurse—and she does not claim to be. What she represents is something equally important and increasingly necessary: an extensively credentialed practitioner who has dedicated herself to understanding the connections between nutrition, gut health, hormones, and the nervous system.”
“Hormone Literacy is not an alternative to medical care. It is the missing context that makes medical care more effective.”
Shelley Lenamond, DO, MBA · Board Certified, Internal Medicine · Foreword, Vital Signs
Credentials and training
No single credential carries the work. The integration does.
35 professional years across healthcare, fitness, entrepreneurship, and philanthropy, and a voice for women who aren’t getting the answers they deserve to move their health in a better direction.
- FDN-PFunctional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner
- NBC-HWCNational Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach
- PFACProfessional Food Addiction Coach
- FMCHCFunctional Medicine Certified Health Coach
- FBCAFunctional Blood Chemistry Analyst
- BCHHPBoard Certified Holistic Health Practitioner, American Association of Drugless Practitioners
- CertifiedPeptide Practitioner
- CertifiedFast Like a Girl Coach
- FacultyTwo years as functional-medicine coaching faculty
- PracticeHundreds of women served, largely through word of mouth
National board certification isn’t a weekend course. I sat for the board examination administered by the National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME), and I maintain it with ongoing continuing education and a professional code of ethics. That’s the standard of care I hold myself to, and the reason I know where my scope ends and your prescribing physician’s begins.
I complement your medical care. I don’t diagnose, prescribe, or replace your doctor.
Step into my practice
Bring me your labs, your questions, and your story. We’ll find your way through from there.
Vital Aging Consultation
A functional blood chemistry review
Here’s exactly what you get:
- A functional blood chemistry analysis of the labs you already have
- Your symptoms and history, read alongside the data
- What biomarkers signal a priority, and why the others can wait
- Your FDN summary with recommendations, in writing
- What to ask your prescribing physician next
- Fifty minutes of my time, which I bill at $330
You’ll leave with your FDN summary and recommendations in writing. If you don’t, I’ll refund you.
Let’s start with your labs · $147Bring one recent panel, drawn in the last 60 days: CBC, CMP, lipids, thyroid, A1c, ferritin, vitamin D. Anything older is context, not data. No recent labs? We’ll start with your symptoms and history, then decide together which functional tests are worth running.
I take a small number of one-to-one clients each year, so consultations are limited each month.
Credited toward Signal Restoration™ if you enroll within 90 days. One credit per person, not transferable or refundable.