Let’s talk about the birth control pill! I’ll start off the conversation with saying that I believe all woman should have access to birth control. The birth control pill is an effective contraceptive, it is effective at preventing pregnancy. I also believe in informed [...]
We can test hormones and see where the hormones are at but if we don’t have these five factors in place then we can take all the supplements, or synthetic or bioidentical hormones and we are not working on these five factors then we [...]
We’ve been hearing a lot more about blue light and I want to talk about, first of all, what is blue light? We get expose to blue light from the sun, from technology including TV, computers, laptops, tablets, phones, also from fluorescent lights, and [...]
A normal TSH reading in your blood work, does not mean that your thyroid is functioning properly. There can be a number of reasons for this, but I want to go through one of the scenarios that I see frequently in my practice. This [...]
Let’s talk about Salivary Hormone Testing. Hormones will pass into the saliva from the cell membranes of the salivary glands. This means that the hormones move from the salivary gland tissues into the saliva. This means that the saliva hormone levels measure the delivery [...]
First of all, what is insulin resistance. Insulin resistance is when our cells’ insulin receptors are not sensitive to insulin that is released from the pancreas in response to glucose or sugar, then they cannot allow glucose into the cells to make ATP or [...]
What is the connection between thyroid function and synthetic estrogens? The thyroid plays an important role in terms of regulating the temperature of every cell in our body. Therefore it sets up the metabolism of every cell in the body. Every cell in our [...]
What is the connection between consuming dietary fats and bone health? There are a number of woman that are concerned about bone health and they often do not see the connection between needing to increase fat consumption to promote their bone health. Many women [...]
Phyto-Hormones are from plants that exhibit hormone-like properties. They will have a weak effect on hormone receptors. Synthetic hormones are man-made chemicals that have hormone-like properties. They will have a strong effect on hormone receptors, even stronger than natural hormones. They will move into [...]
Hormone testing specifically the sex hormones including estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and distinguishing between serum (blood) vs. saliva vs urine tests. Serum (blood): for sex hormones there is no distinction in serum between bound and unbound (free) hormones. It can be misleading in which hormone [...]
