Welcome.
I’M DR. LUCY McBRIDE.
I am here to reconceptualize health as more than your cholesterol and weight; to give you the tools you need to be healthy from the inside out.
Health is not an outcome defined by a doctor or guru, it is an internal process involving honest engagement with Three “A”s:
Awareness of your medical data
Acceptance of the things you cannot control, and
Agency over what you can change.
The outcome?
Getting “un-stuck,” putting you back in the driver’s seat of your health.
Many of us feel stuck.
We don’t feel well, mentally and physically.
We are wired and tired. We are keyed up and burned out. The medical system is failing us. If we’re lucky enough to have a doctor, they rarely have enough time.
So we scroll online for wellness advice and health hacks. We grab quick hits of dopamine through sugar, shopping, booze, or whatever gizmo social media is offering up. We are sleepless and irritable and don’t know what’s wrong. Worse, we don’t even know who to trust.
We want to be healthy, to feel better. We understand the benefits of exercise, nutrition, sleep and mindfulness. But when stress enters the mix, we default to factory settings, slogging through the days the best way we know how.
Now is the time to redefine health as more than your cholesterol and weight.
Health is not an outcome; it’s a process. It is not fixed; it’s dynamic. It’s not about “winning” your doctor’s appointment; it’s about the 364 days a year you’re not in the doctor’s office. It’s about having information, tools, and nuanced guidance to navigate everyday life.
Are you ready?
Let’s move Beyond the Prescription.
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Information (medical data, biometrics, medical history, social history, family history, facts about your story and things that happened to you)
Inputs (nutrition, hydration, recreational drugs, supplements, medications)
Infrastructure (skeletal health, body mechanics, injuries, mobility, flexibility, muscle strength/tone, fitness)
Insight (self-awareness, mental health: mood, anxiety, sleep, distress tolerance, relationships)
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This includes fixed unpleasant realities about our choices, our lives, and things that have happened to us
This requires honesty, courage, and a set of questions to ask our ourselves
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Once we have put a box around everything we have to accept, EVERYTHING ELSE IS FAIR GAME to change
Make a plan, set an intention, add structure and support
My story
I grew up in DC. I studied art history and pre-med at Princeton University where I met my husband. (Here we are in college.)
He and I moved to England where I earned a Master’s in Pharmacology as a Fulbright fellow from the University of Cambridge—and my now-husband played semi-professional soccer. I then attended Harvard Medical School and completed my medical internship and residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
I’m also a mom. My kids are my everything.
You might ask me: why am I doing any of this writing and podcasting in the first place? Why don’t I go back to solely caring for patients? Patient care is, after all, my enduring passion and top priority, for over 20 years.
Well, I realized early on in my career how desperate people are for straight talk and trusted guides to shepherd us through hard times—and how narrowly we define “health.”
It reminded us how much guidance we need to feel—and actually to be—well.
I am here to give people permission to be human, to help people beyond the walls of my office re-conceptualize health, and to arm people with a sense of agency over their everyday lives.
Thank you for being here!
With love & gratitude,
Fun facts about me
My brother is a rock star.
I once flew on Air Force 2.
I am a consignment shopping junkie.
I would have been an interior designer if not a doctor.
I was an art history major in college.
I was an au pair in Iceland when I was 18.
I can recite the home phone numbers of my five best friends from high school.
I live two blocks away from my childhood home.
My husband and I met when we were 19.
My kids are my best teachers.
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What does it mean to be "healthy"? Each week, Dr. McBride talks to her guests like she does her patients, pulling the curtain back on the true meaning of "health" and delivering actionable ideas to live longer and better.
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Dr. McBride has a robust clinical practice in Washington, DC. She also brings her thought leadership to broadcast news, print media, live events, and Congressional hearings.