Hormones are given a bad rap. When they are not in balance they can cause undesirable symptoms, however those symptoms are often messages to you from your body that something is not quite right. Many females starting at a young age have irregular and/or painful periods. When they go to an allopathic or conventionally trained […]
As functional medicine practitioners, we look at hormones from multiple angles to get an accurate picture of what is happening inside your body. We must consider: How efficient is the body at producing the hormone? Are hormone binding carrier proteins affecting hormone function? Are the cells sensitive to hormone communication signals? Is the body detoxifying (metabolizing and […]
Most people have not been taught much when it comes to hormone health and function. We learn estrogen is the female hormone, testosterone is the male hormone, and for those with thyroid issues, you might know something about TSH. Yet the world of hormones is not simple and when looking at hormone dysfunction through a […]
In functional medicine, we begin treatment conservatively and emphasize prevention through tailored lifestyle medicine. This is something that most doctors are not practicing, which is partly responsible for the heart disease epidemic that has been growing for the past 60+ years. According to the now famous INTERHEART study, 90% of our risk for developing heart disease […]
Testing is critical when it comes to the conversation of cardiovascular health. Most often your primary care physician or conventional medical doctor will run a lipid panel consisting of total cholesterol, LDL, HDL, and triglycerides to assess your cardiovascular risk. However, these biomarkers give us an incomplete picture of what is going on inside our bodies, […]