Your enthusiasm is contagious— so please stop by and leave me a review on iTunes after you listen to the podcast. Here’s one from “Wolf fang fists,” who writes: I’m a 19 year old active duty service member. I’m currently on a team of body building type competitors. The episo...
Avoiding stress when you can, eating nutritional foods, drinking lots of water, and getting regular exercise and restful sleep are valuable strategies to reduce and cope with stress. How do you know if your stress-management strategies are working? Thorne's Stress Test gives you the knowledge ...
Why strengthen your pancreas? Because it produces hormones vital to your ability to digest food and assimilate carbs and fats. Take a look.
Intense, prolonged stress can lead to dissociative amnesia because it activates our adrenal glands, which release cortisol and other hormones into the bloodstream. Cortisol in particular reduces the brain's plasticity, or ability to change shape to form new nerve pathways during memory formation. Exte...
It contributes to healthy sexual function, but it circulates in much smaller quantities. [3] How to measure estradiol levels An estradiol blood test—sometimes called an E2 check—can quickly tell you what your levels of this hormone are. The challenging parts are understanding your results and...
Adrenal surgery: to whom and how?Yavuz Selim Süral
The following are self-tests to try if you suspect your adrenals are struggling: Blood pressure test Take and compare two blood pressure readings–one while lying down and one while standing. Rest for five minutes in recumbent position (lying down, tho some do sitting) before taking the readi...
In many cases, you can self-order the labs and then send the receipts for reimbursement to your insurance. (Please check with your insurance FIRST to ensure that they will accept this and what their procedure is.) Now, let’s take a look at each thyroid test and what they mean for you...
changes to occur. What it is is it's our forebrain, in particular, our prefrontal cortex, signaling the rest of our nervous system that something that we're about to do, hear, feel, or experience is worth paying attention to. So we'll pause there and then I'm going to move forward...
I’m excited to share with you everything I’ve learned to support weight management and Hashimoto’s. You’ll be surprised by just how big of a role your thyroid, adrenal, and nutrient levels play in unexpected weight gain! In the following article, you’ll discover: ...