Daniela Caballero Varona, MD

I spent years learning how to recognize what was wrong and what to do next. Then I found myself on the other side of the equation.

After completing my Emergency Medicine residency in 2019, I began experiencing extreme fatigue, brain fog, low motivation, and a growing sense that I didn’t quite feel like myself. I called it burnout. Then COVID. Then adulthood.

what if this was hormonal?

That question led me down a path I never expected. Even as a physician, finding answers about premenstrual disorders was difficult. The conventional medical system I had spent years training in wasn’t giving me the clarity I was looking for.

So I started learning differently — exploring the evidence around hormonal health alongside lifestyle medicine, nervous system regulation, and other approaches to understanding symptoms more fully.

VIDA grew from that experience.

I wanted to create the kind of place I had been looking for: one where women with premenstrual and hormonal disorders feel heard, where symptoms are given time and context, and where care isn’t compressed into a rushed 10-minute conversation.