true north archive

For your health journey — honest, evidence-based, human.

True North is my attempt to shift the tide. To create accessible, credible, and compassionate information — to give you the tools to improve your healthspan. Not just the length of your life, but the quality of it. The years you spend vital, capable, and fully yourself rather than merely surviving them.

Welcome to the journey,

Java Tunson, MD

Java Tunson, MD 4/20/26 Java Tunson, MD 4/20/26

The Gap Between What We Know and What You've Been Told

There are countless women I see on a daily basis who have had multiple urinary tract infections, who have been referred to urology, who have seen numerous other providers, and who are still not on low-dose vaginal estrogen and have never been offered it.

Java Tunson, MD 6/1/25 Java Tunson, MD 6/1/25

For 50% of Women Mammograms aren’t Enough

There is a rising number of women with “normal mammograms” that ultimately are diagnosed with advanced breast cancer.

Java Tunson, MD 1/17/25 Java Tunson, MD 1/17/25

How menopausal hormone therapy saves lives

The undoing of one misguided announcement 23 years ago is moving at a glacial pace but it feels the energy of a movement towards informed comprehensive (peri)menopausal care is building and it is being fueled by women demanding better.

Java Tunson, MD 9/12/24 Java Tunson, MD 9/12/24

Jet Lag Recovery: Shifting Circadian Rhythms For Optimal Travel

Through the language of light exposure, food and exercise targeted at specific times when your brain is receptive to this communication, you can shift the time you wake and sleep quite dramatically without medications or supplements.