Most Americans are now unable to stop eating refined sweets and starches.
My Biohacking Paleolista Soul Sister: Julia Ross and The Diet Cure
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Cortisol Switcharoo: How Cortisol Makes You Fat and Angry, Plus 7 Practices to Rock Your Stress
May 4, 2012 by · 20 Comments
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… [Continue Reading]
It’s Not Me: It’s My Adrenals! How Your Adrenals Govern Your Vitality
July 22, 2011 by · 2 Comments
Do you wilt in the face of stress? Feel more anxious when you have to step up your game? Think you might be burned out? It may not be you – it may be your hormones. Sprecifically, your stress hormones. Figure this out now, before you hit menopause, and your forties will be so very… [Continue Reading]
Orgasm Balances Your Hormones: According to Hippocrates + Modern Research
July 8, 2011 by · 2 Comments
You know the Hippocratic Oath? I took it back in 1994. Do No Harm. Got it. Hippocrates got it, too – and he wanted you to get some.
Orgasm Is….
June 30, 2011 by · 1 Comment
Ecstatic to have been asked by the brilliant folks at OneTaste to give a talk tomorrow on the topic: “Orgasm Is…” What it is. What it does for you, clinically, and… hormonally. Poetically and historically. How it rocks your thyroid. How it reduces your cortisol, the main hormone of stress. How it slows down the… [Continue Reading]
The Holy Trinity – Or Charlie’s Angels – of Vitality: Estrogen, Cortisol + Thyroid (and why they’ve got your back + your rack, baby)
June 22, 2011 by · 6 Comments
Step into my time machine. We’re nine years old. It’s 1976. We’re fledgling feminists (already!) and we’re mad-passionately-crazy in awe of a trio of crime-fighting, bad-guy-busting women with brains, brawn and physical agility. And they are just like the hormonal system, when it’s working FOR YOU not against you. They’re amazing. They’re Angels. (They even… [Continue Reading]
Digital Sabbatical + Your Hormones
May 23, 2011 by · 3 Comments
I just resurfaced after a digital “shabbat” — that is, no online love from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday. No email, no tweets, no Facebook Big Ideas. Result? Better relatedness with my husband and daughters, oxytocin-raising dialogue with girlfriends, and more mindful eating. But, wait, that’s not all! Cortisol comes as close as you can… [Continue Reading]
Dump the Junk: Reasons to Dump Caffeine
April 7, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
I recommend to all my patients that they limit caffeine intake and completely detox for at least 14 days twice per year. And I getta lotta push back. Why? Probably because mostly of my patients have some degree of adrenal dysregulation, and caffeine gets them going in the morning, and keeps them going during… [Continue Reading]
Sake Bombs or Kale? Vacation Review
January 18, 2011 by · Leave a Comment
At the risk of sounding insufferable, I have to share some thoughts on two side-by-side vacations. Let me preface our discussion with two disclosures: I have adrenal dysregulation and two young kids. While I’m in adrenal “recovery,” as many of you know who are on this path with me — recovery takes a long, long… [Continue Reading]
