This month we’re singing the praises of the cleanse to keep us from singing the blues. Last week I shared how dairy can really slow down our systems and how I kicked the dairy habit. Today, I want to share how a cleanse helps to detox our liver which works so damn hard to break [...]
Rock your fiber, but not for the reason you’re thinking. Eighty percent of women aged 35+ have estrogen dominance, and fiber is proven to lower estrogen levels (and prevent breast cancer). Mind the Gap I recommend (and Dr. Weil) 35-45 grams of fiber per day yet the average fiberintake among American women is less than [...]
One month ago, I wrote about my Achilles heel, which is the wayward, dysregulated hormone called cortisol. I wrote about “cortisol switch” which I’ll define again in a moment, but first up… let’s talk about how cortisol, the main stress hormone produced by your adrenal glands in your mid-back, brings you down and ramps up your risk [...]
First the bold news: I hacked my growth hormone with exercise and raised it 53%. Results just in: Growth hormone climbed from a respectable level of 219 last year to 334 ng/ml at the end of April. Even with my agro lifestyle of completing my book with Simon and Schuster, running my integrative medicine practice full [...]
Darlings, first the good news. You have a choice about how estrogen works for or against you in your body. The bad news is that the latest, best evidence shows that 3 or more servings of alcohol per week may increase your risk of breast cancer quite seriously. Three. Per week. Most women I know [...]
There, I admit it. It’s time to get brutally honest. After all, I’m in my forties, perimenopausal, and the best part about it is the newfound clarity, the lift of the hormonal veil–regarding the endless accommodation, the people-pleasing, the half-hearted enthusiasm for things you don’t really enjoy but you do them anyway. Such [...]
I am so very blessed. Here’s why. 7 Women. One Year. These 7 women have vaulted me to places I never thought possible in the past year, from the Fire Starter Sessions with Danielle Laporte (did her book, then did a live Fire Starter, and, WOW, life shifted to technicolor in so many delovely and [...]
What’s your Greater Purpose when it comes to your health? What myths have you busted on your path to robust health? (Show me yours and I’ll show you mine.) Transparency Heals Perhaps you’ve noticed this too. The more honest I get about what I most desire, what I most feel and need, about the ways in which I overprovide, and [...]
Memory is your ability to store, retain, and recall information at will. But sometimes, if you’re like me at age 44, you send the signal and… nothing happens. Blank. I got nothin’. As a recovering stressoholic, I’ve learned that we have a very cool part of our brain called the hippocampus that is the boss [...]
Here are the Best of Class in Hormonal Health, Peace + Love. Thought leaders, change agents, supersmartypants, Malcomb-Gladwell-types of women’s health and longevity, nutritional radicals, early adoptors, cultural creatives, and, oh YES! the Voice of Reason (guess who!). The folks I go to when I have a question, and Pubmed came up dry. Wanted to [...]
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