Is it a Gray Area?

Amy Rothenberg ND
FieldNotes From Natural Medicine
3 min readNov 16, 2022

More of us are sporting gray hair: probably a good thing.

Self-portrait of the author

One time when I was lecturing on a serious topic in medicine, cancer survivorship, an older gentleman got on the question line with other attendees after the talk. Instead of asking a question, he said something like — I just wanted to stop over and applaud you for not dying your hair. And by the way, it looks great. When I put a lot of effort into offering a…

Amy Rothenberg ND
FieldNotes From Natural Medicine

American Association of Naturopathic Physician’s 2017 Physician of the Year. Teacher, writer and advocate for healthy living. www.nhcmed.com