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 [...]
Most Americans are now unable to stop eating refined sweets and starches. Why? Because these foods are actually more addictive than alcohol or drugs! No joke. Sugar ages you prematurely and feeds the wrong message to your genetic code. Stop the sugar train. As NIDA chief Nora Volkow explained in her April 30, 2012, 60 [...]
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 [...]
Have you heard of the “cortisol switch?” Here’s the scenario. When you’re stressed, you feel the positive vibe of cortisol – the rise of energy, the focus, the charge, the ascent. Cortisol is the main stress hormone made in your adrenal glands and it’s designed to get you out of danger. It has 3 main [...]
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 [...]
It’s Valentine’s Day. Time to love up your bones. What’s that? You’re asking ”why?” “Why” is not a spiritual question. “How?” is a spiritual question. But I digress. When I first learned that women reach peak bone mass at age 30 to 35, I thought: Help! It’s like a trust fund that peaks too early and ruins the kid. Later [...]
Let’s face it… Thyroid numbers are often counterintuitive and confusing. Mix in low thyroid function with the common low-thyroid symptom of brain fog, maybe a bit of depression, and you’ve got a perfect storm for feeling overwhelmed, and even worse, disempowered about what to do next. Want a sampler of how confusing thyroid math can [...]
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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