Hormonal
When Your Doctor Dismisses Your Symptoms, Could It Be Your Hormones Out of Balance?
When one goes to their doctor with symptoms such as fatigue, foggy brain, irritability, difficulty sleeping, anxiety, depression, decreased sex drive, or in men, erectile dysfunction, the only answer your MD usually has to give you is lose weight, exercise, or give you a sleep aid, an antidepressant or Viagra. But what is the real…
Read MoreWhy Your Doctor Tells You to Stop Hormones Before Surgery and Why You Should Not
If you are taking hormones and are due for an upcoming operation, you may have been told by your surgeon to stop taking your hormones a week to several weeks before the operation. This blog post will review why your doctor may tell you to stop your hormones and when and why you should not.…
Read MoreIt’s Not Your Fault!
Why can’t you stop eating sugar, craving salty chips, buying processed foods to save time? It’s not your fault! Your food failures don’t mean you lack willpower. These foods are designed to mess with your brain. Most Americans are undernourished, no matter how much they eat. Learn how to get crucial missing nutrients back into…
Read MoreHow is Hormone Imbalance Associated with Heart Disease?
Hormones are powerful chemical messengers that play a role in virtually all major bodily systems and functions including your cardiovascular system. A 3 minute cardiovascular assessment will provide valuable information to determine your risk for cardiovascular related disease. Insulin Resistance Cells don’t “open” normally and, in response, the pancreas creates too much insulin. When too…
Read MoreWhy Do I Suddenly Have Feelings of Hopelessness?
Patient Question, Why Do I Suddenly have Feelings of Hopelessness and Cravings? A Female Patient: “I tried to cut back on the DIM. I went to 600 and tried a couple days at 300mg. I started my period yesterday and had severe PMS for the past 10 days. When my period hit I didn’t get…
Read MoreHow Much Do You Know About Your Gut?
Gut microbiota is a fancy word for flora that lives in our gut. Flora means plants that live in a particular habitat. In this case, our gut is our habitat and the flora are microorganisms such as bacteria. Our gut microbiota is made up of tens of trillions of bacteria which is ten times more…
Read MoreWhere Did All the Iodine Go?
What has happened to our iodine in the last half century? In the 1960’s, iodine was added to our bread dough. This was a good thing, since one slice of bread gave you your recommended daily allowance. Unfortunately, twenty years later, the National Institute of Health came to believe we were getting too much iodine.…
Read More“Teachings in Relationship to Light Portal™” Part 1
I accidentally opened a file that were notes from a lecture by Bruce Lipton, author of Biology of Belief. I love listening to him and contemplate the incredible magnificent creation of us, our bodies, our minds, our souls. The below are the notes I took and edited. Genetic Theory of Disease Stem cells divide every…
Read MoreMeet Mary
Mary is a forty-five-year-old patient of mine who was testosterone deficient. Despite working out and “eating healthy,” she was not losing weight; in fact she was gaining weight around her mid-section. She had her testosterone optimized but still could not lose weight. We knew she had hypothyroidism, but this being managed by another physician who…
Read MoreYour DNA, Nutritional & Hormonal Chemistry Used to Achieve Optimal Health
Integrated Genetic Solutions (IGS) Last spring a new company called Integrated Genetic Solutions caught my eye. IGS technology is the first of its kind using mathematical analysis of a person’s DNA and body’s nutritional and hormonal chemistry for a comprehensive and completely personalized medical treatment needed to maximize each individual’s optimal mental and physical health.…
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