Slow food? Love it. Slow sex? You know it. Slow thyroid? A show stopper. You cannot realize your full potential in the world if your thyroid is working against you. Is this you? You’ve packed on a few pounds and can’t seem to get them off. You look at a piece of cake and it [...]
What Dr. Oz Taught Me About Oprah’s Thyroid + Why She Struggles with Weight
January 16, 2012 by ·
Why the Weirdness with Doctors + Thyroid? Talking Shop with Gena Lee Nolin & Mary Shomon Next Week
September 16, 2011 by ·
It happened again this week. I saw a patient who is 48 and came to me a few months ago because she felt flat sensually and sexually. Let’s call her Daphne. As part of our work together, I found she had a Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) of 3.1 and a low free T3. In other [...]
Thyroid: Minimize Goitrogens for Optimal Metabolism + Weight
August 20, 2011 by ·
Here is a great list of foods that slow down your thyroid, from Wikipedia. They are also known as goitrogens. Isn’t that a weird word? It’s best to avoid these foods in their raw form – lightly cooked is a better option. Caffeine. Yes, not a popular food to give up, but it will help [...]
Orgasm Balances Your Hormones: According to Hippocrates + Modern Research
July 8, 2011 by ·
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 [...]
Orgasm Is….
June 30, 2011 by ·
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 [...]
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 ·
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 [...]
