Vanessa Niles MD

Vanessa Niles MD

Women's Hormonal Health & Longevity · Heally Medical Team

  • OB/GYN
  • 30+ years of clinical practice at Heally

Dr. Vanessa Niles is a board-certified OB/GYN with more than four decades of clinical experience in women's health, hormonal balance, and longevity medicine. She earned her medical degree from Meharry Medical College in Nashville — one of the nation's historically Black medical schools with a legacy of training physicians committed to underserved communities — and completed her OB/GYN residency at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Throughout her career, Dr. Niles has built deep expertise in menopause management, hormone replacement therapy, and the relationship between balanced estrogen and progesterone and long-term vitality. She is recognized as a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (F.A.C.O.G.), a designation earned by fewer than 10% of OB/GYN physicians and reflecting sustained commitment to clinical excellence.

At Heally, Dr. Niles reviews content covering hormone therapy, women's health, the DUTCH hormone test, and perimenopause care. Her approach treats hormonal health not as an isolated issue but as a foundation of whole-body longevity in women at every life stage.

Medical degree
Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN (1984)
Residency
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL — Obstetrics & Gynecology
Board certification
OB/GYN
Focus areas
Hormone therapy (estrogen, progesterone, DHEA); Perimenopause & menopause management; DUTCH hormone panel interpretation; Women's sexual health & vitality

Articles reviewed by Vanessa Niles MD 98 articles

LLongevity
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NAD+ for weight loss: does it actually help, and how?

If you're over 40, hitting a wall with your energy despite doing "everything right," or noticing that the same diet and workout routine that worked in your 30s just doesn't produce the same results anymore - that's often NAD+ decline talking. Here's what the research actually says, and where the therapy fits into a realistic weight loss strategy.