Your brain is the largest and (arguably) the most important organ in your body -- without it, "you" cannot function! When stress, low moods, fatigue, and brain fog arise, your brain definitely needs support to function optimally. Balanced hormones and nutritional supplements can provide powerful mood, cognition, and memory support. How do hormones and supplements have an affect on your brain? Here's how it works: Your brain is made up of trillions of...
If you are suffering from fatigue, depression, low sex drive, weight gain, or any type of PMS or menopause symptoms, you know that hormone imbalance can turn your world upside down. Feeling better may seem impossible! Your hormones are your body’s most potent chemical messengers, so when they are out of whack, your whole system (and your life!) suffers. Hormones are produced in your endocrine glands and affect you at...
Symptoms of hormone imbalance often include mid-section weight gain. Estrogen dominance [read more HERE] is a common hormone imbalance that affects both women and men and causes those "love handles" to appear as you age. For women, this can happen as early as your 30s {muffin tops, anyone?}, and for men, that "spare tire" can develop as early as your 40s. How does a hormone imbalance cause body fat to increase and accumulate? Too much...
What do you mean you're not "in the mood?" Male Menopause is very real, and it has a name: andropause. What do I need to know about andropause? The most potent force underlying mental and physical energy in men, the testosterone drive, starts to decline in a man's mid-forties. Unlike the 'roller coaster' effect in menopausal women, male symptoms come on more gradually -- and most men aren't sure...
One of the most common (yet severely under-diagnosed) types of hormone imbalance is "estrogen dominance." Dr. Randolph and our clinical team firmly believe that estrogen dominance is an unrecognized epidemic in modern life. Estrogen dominance can short-circuit your internal remote control physically, emotionally, and mentally! Symptoms include fatigue, depression, low libido/poor sex drive, mood swings/increased irritability, PMS, hot flashes, night sweats, headaches/migraines, abdominal weight gain, insomnia, osteoporosis, irregular bleeding, and...
What Are the “Sex Hormones”? Most people know that the hormones, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and DHEA play important roles in human reproduction. What you may not know is that they also help regulate many other functions in the body, from sleep patterns, to your moods and memory, bone growth, muscle strength, and much more. To understand the many negative effects of an unbalanced hormone ratio -- the most common of which...
Perhaps you or someone you know has suffered from some of the following mild symptoms: fatigue, dry skin, weight gain, cold intolerance, depression, and poor memory. There are so many possible causes for these kinds of problems that it is easy to assume you're "just not getting enough sleep," or that you're "just feeling a little stressed." However, it could be a condition that is all-to-often overlooked: subclinical hypothyroidism (also called "mild...
“Adrenaline” and “cortisol” are the two hormones that regulate the sympathetic nervous system in response to stress, and they directly influence mood, energy, sleep, and mental functioning. The amount of each hormone your adrenal glands produce is related to the amount of stress you experience. Common stressors include juggling work and family issues; being laid off or looking for work; financial troubles; loss of a parent or child; divorce or...
Bone is living tissue with complex nutritional needs. This living tissue is also constantly being regenerated. Cells called "osteoclasts" break down the bone tissue, and the "osteoblast" cells build it up again. Osteoporosis occurs when the creation of new bone tissue cannot keep up with the removal of old bone tissue. Bones can eventually become so fragile and porous that even bending over or coughing may cause a fracture. More...
Wait -- what is Menopause again? Menopause, famously known as “The Change,” marks the end of the reproductive years, typically around age 51. A woman is “officially” in Menopause once two thresholds are met: (1) she has not had a period for at least twelve months, and (2) her bloodwork reflects a permanent down-shift in hormone levels. The pituitary gland and the hypothalamus continue to produce hormones during Menopause, and...
