One thing that I have learned is that healing is a journey. Complex endocrine and hormonal issues take time to correct. There is no doubt about it: hormone and endocrine…
Hormones are cell messengers that carry important signals to different cells in the body. There can be a lot of things that go wrong in their communication, and these problems…
Its adrenal time. The amount of demand placed upon the adrenal glands due to modern day stress factors is immense and unprecedented. Stress can be identified as having both internal…
Last week we covered glucose factors, as well as the importance of interpreting blood chemistry functionally, rather than pathologically. We also discussed the topic of laboratory reference ranges being statistical averages,…
Elevated levels of fasting insulin is the single greatest marker to assess a person’s cardiovascular and diabetic risk factors. This has been consistently demonstrated in the medical literature going back…
pYour liver is an amazing organ. It produces more than 500 vital functions. It is a massive organ responsible for so many biological processes and functions that I’ve been intimidated…
Adrenal fatigue has become somewhat of an umbrella term in functional medicine. On the surface, it isn’t quite clear what is meant by adrenal fatigue. We can say that dysfunction…
Recently I’ve been working very closely with a Type II Diabetic. I have recommended that she monitor her glucose levels with a glucose meter at various intervals throughout the day,…
The cortisol to DHEA ratio is believed to be so important to your health, that numerous functions in the body are deficient without it. Cortisol and DHEA are both powerful…
Each week I re-iterate the importance of cholesterol in the body, as well as site the prevalent mis-information that exists regarding cholesterol. Not only is cholesterol not bad, it is…