How Your Thyroid Could be Impacting Your Health

Your thyroid is most likely impacting your health and you are told otherwise    Millions of Americans are suffering with feelings of fatigue, weight gain, cognitive impairment and depression. Seemingly unrelated and sometimes even attributed to other causes, the thyroid can actually be at play. Thyroid disorders can have a widespread effect on your health.…

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Relative Estrogen Dominance – What is it and what to do about it?

A Brief Look into Relative Estrogen Dominance Syndrome   Although many of us think of menopause (and perimenopause) as a phase in women’s lives where hormones begin to decline, it’s actually common for some women to experience abnormally high estrogen levels. When women have a deficiency of progesterone during this phase, estrogen is in a…

Five Infections That Promote Hashimoto’s Disease

  Now that we’ve covered some ground in my previous posts on common symptoms, sources, and herbal treatments for Hashimoto’s Disease, I want to discuss a lesser known link that could be causing and perpetuating this autoimmune disorder—Infections. Unfortunately in both traditional and alternative medicine, the infection link is often overlooked, however as long as…

Balancing Hormones, the natural way!

  Hormones are chemical messengers that travel throughout the body byway of the bloodstream. When things are good, the organs and glands work together to regulate hormone production. When production is even slightly off balance, the entire body can feel it. There are the expected hormonal milestones in life—puberty, childbirth, perimenopause, menopause—where hormones surge and…

Grave’s disease – A hyper thyroid

Graves’ Disease: The Mind and Body Behind It   Michelle had been through the wringer. Her blood tests were good…but she felt ill all the time. A woman in her late twenties, she suffered extreme anxiety, restlessness, mood swings, fatigue, irregular periods, and muscle weakness. She was more afraid of losing her mother than sad.…