PMS: Nutritional Solutions
PMS is said to effect approximately 50% of women who have regular menstruation. Its important to address that not all women that menstruate suffer from any symptoms associated with menses.Nonetheless...
View ArticleHealing the Adrenals: Journeying into the Complexities of Adrenal Fatigue
Conventional medical diagnostics still fails to recognize adrenal fatigue as a real problem. Tell this to the millions of people who suffer from depleted adrenal function, chronic fatigue and symptoms...
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Birth Control: Copper Toxicity & Estrogen Excess
Copper toxicity is a hidden epidemic. Birth control pills and copper IUD's contribute to excess copper in the body. For thousands of years, copper has been known to be anti-microbial in nature. Copper...
View ArticleHere's How to Identify Adrenal Fatigue on Your Blood Test
Blood tests can provide a lot of important data regarding a person's health if the tests are interpreted correctly. If you've been following my posts regarding blood chemistry over the last few months...
View ArticleCortisol & DHEA: The Major Hormone Balance
The cortisol to DHEA ratio is believed to be so important to your health, that numerous functions in the body are deficient without it. Cortisol and DHEA are both powerful adrenal hormones that have a...
View ArticleControl the Stress Response
I define stress as any external or internal factor that challenges the body or mind to maintain equilibrium. Stress is the burden of managing external pressures from things like finances, relationships...
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Hypothyroidism & the Adrenals: The Intrinsic Link
Hypothyroidism is becoming an epidemic. Some studies indicate that as many as 40% of the population has some degree of hypothyroidism. Low thyroid functioning results in a metabolism that is...
View ArticleHormone Balance For Women
There is a symphony of hormones in your body. Sometimes harmonious, sometimes not. Women tend to undergo the greatest degree of hormonal fluctuations of either of the two sexes and this is why...
View ArticleAdrenal HYPO Function & Adrenal HYPER Function: Here's The Difference
Adrenal fatigue has become somewhat of an umbrella term in functional medicine. On the surface, it isn't quite clear what is meant by adrenal fatigue. We can say that dysfunction of the adrenal glands...
View ArticleElectrolytes & The Adrenals
Adrenal fatigue has become a standardized term in the alternative health world. And with good reason too. Excess adrenal output and diminished adrenal output can both be primary issues that can derail...
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HTMA: Thyroid & Adrenal Activity
Hair tissue mineral analysis (HTMA) is a tissue level biopsy which can reveal a lot of very important data regarding the activity of the adrenal and thyroid glands. Additionally, HTMA and the study of...
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The Adrenal Tests That Everyone Is Talking About
Adrenal fatigue is thrown around a lot these days even though conventional medicine fails to acknowledge it as a legitimate health issues. Perhaps conventional medicine isn't interested in things in...
View ArticleElectrolytes & The Adrenals
Adrenal fatigue has become a standardized term in the alternative health world. And with good reason too. Excess adrenal output and diminished adrenal output can both be primary issues that can derail...
View ArticleThe Rise Of Thyroid Conditions: Toxicity, Nutrition & Stress
The incidence of thyroid conditions has been on the rise for decades. Active thyroid hormone is found inside of every cell of the body, and it is this reason that leads many clinicians to believe that...
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The Endocrine Journey: Steroidal Hormones & Their Pathways
Hormones are cell messengers that carry important signals to different cells in the body. There can be a lot of things that go wrong in their communication, and these problems can be due to a multitude...
View ArticleExploring The Stress Response: HPA Axis, Nutrition, Emotions & The Limbic System
Endocrine dysfunction is becoming increasingly more common. Thyroid conditions are epidemic. Adrenal exhaustion is all too common. There are a plethora of approaches to healing, restoration and...
View ArticleThe Complexity Of Endocrine Issues: Lifestyle Factors & Prolonged Stress
One thing that I have learned is that healing is a journey. Complex endocrine and hormonal issues take time to correct. There is no doubt about it: hormone and endocrine issues can be some of the more...
View ArticleHerbal Medicine, Adrenals & Beyond: Powerful Effects For Healing
Traditional herbal medicines provide tremendous therapeutic benefits for issues related to adrenal stress, high and low cortisol, nervous system imbalances and depression. While there are a plethora of...
View ArticleElevated LDL Cholesterol: The Hypothyroid Connection
Thyroid conditions are increasingly common. Some researchers and clinicians would argue that thyroid conditions are an epidemic. When thyroid conditions are present, the thyroid is treated as if the...
View ArticleAdrenals & The Gut: Blood Sugar, Trauma & The Overload Of Stress
In many ways, the issue of adrenal fatigue can be thought of as a lack of coordination between various endocrine glands in the HPA axis. In the past I've written about many factors that can influence...
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