Stress is everywhere. Work deadlines, family obligations, financial pressures, health concerns—the list goes on. While occasional stress is normal (and can even be helpful), chronic stress takes a toll on your health. It can weaken your immune system, disrupt sleep,...
When women think about hormone replacement therapy, estrogen is usually top of mind. And while the importance of estrogen is not to be discounted, there’s another hormone deserving equal attention: progesterone. Often overlooked and/or misunderstood,...
Stressful situations and circumstances can be found just about everywhere. Our modern day lives make it nearly impossible to avoid. Work deadlines, family obligations, financial pressures…the list goes on and on. Unfortunately, this is problematic…because...
Do you find that maintaining muscle mass harder than it used to be? Or do you feel like you’re losing strength? The cause could be sarcopenia—which is just the medical term for age-related muscle loss. While losing muscle mass with age might seem inevitable,...
For more than two decades, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has been unfairly demonized by the mainstream. And all as a consequence of just one flawed study from the 1990s. The result has been countless women suffering unnecessarily from the symptoms of menopause....
Do you feel more sluggish and tired each year as winter approaches? Many people attribute this seasonal fatigue to the changing seasons (i.e. shorter days, colder weather, and less outdoor activity). But there’s often something else going on here: thyroid...
