A Band Aid…for Your Lungs It’s spring. Which means that along with flowers blooming and “beach-body” resolutions looming, allergies are hitting. Hard. As rates of asthma and allergies rise each year, so does the amount of money put into treatment. Breathing is about the most basic function needed for survival, so it’s not surprising that [...]
Dr. Mark Hyman, will you be my boyfriend? (My husband says it’s okay!) Because you’re just about the cutest, smartest man I’ve had the chance to talk sugar with. And not just sugar – sugar cravings. Blood sugar. Cortisol. Some of my very favorite things to nerd out over. Dr. Hyman knows his stuff, too. [...]
Dear Sheryl Sandberg and Lean In: Girlfriend, your book is making waves. Important waves, but also waves that are raising my cortisol. Sheryl Sandberg and Lean In put forth the idea is that the only way women in the workforce can reach the top of the corporate ladder is when we lean in: when we [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. Turns out that during Hippocrates’ time and right up until the Freudian era (the 1930s), doctors prescribed orgasm as a treatment for women with various “ailments” such as hysteria [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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