“Non specific Viral Illness”
Would you believe that small children can get a horrible looking rash from head to toe and nobody knows what it is? Well, that scenario would have seemed far-fetched to me a month ago. But that’s just what happened to my son Miles. He contracted this so-called “non-specific viral illness” one day completely out of…
Elle Health Article
Sitting in a corner office of a gleaming Beverly Hills high-rise, Uzzi Reiss, M.D., a gynecologist whose name is on the speed dials and well-plumped lips of Hollywood housewives, starlets, and power brokers alike these days, catalogs the miseries of premenstrual syndrome. “You feel foggy, fatigued, a little bit depressed, your skin is more oily….,”…
Important Nutrients For The Body
Fish Oils: Oil made from processing fish, usually small oily and bony fish. Benefits Fish oil helps to keep your blood pressure healthy Fish oil helps to keep your level of triglycerides under control Fish oil helps to keep your arterial walls healthy Fish oil helps to maintain healthy endothelial function Fish oil keeps your…
Saliva Testing
Saliva testing is a convenient, inexpensive, and above all, accurate means of testing steroid hormones. Scientific studies have shown a strong correlation between steroid hormone levels in saliva and the amount of hormone in the blood that is active or “bioavailable.” Saliva is an ideal diagnostic medium to measure the bioavailable levels of steroid hormones…
Natural Progesterone & Women’s Health
A Guide to Understanding & Controlling Menopause, PMS, Infertility, & Osteoporosis Overview In order to accurately evaluate the effects of estrogen and Natural Progesterone, on PMS, Fertility, Menopause, and Osteoporosis, it is necessary to identify the sources of these important hormones. Distinguishing safe and natural hormones from those that are foreign and carcinogenic will allow…
Chromium
We need this mineral to process sugar. But most Americans are running too low. Vitamins like C and E get the attention in nutrition, but unglamorous minerals are essential to good health, too. In fact, more than a dozen minerals help rule our bodies. One of them, chromium, is powerful in making insulin work correctly….
Blood Sugar Metabolism
The Importance Of Healthy Sugar Metabolism Achieving and maintaining proper blood sugar metabolism is essential for a lifetime of excellent health. Prolonged unhealthy blood sugar metabolism can significantly affect the health of your nerves, eyes, blood vessels, kidneys, and pancreas. It can impact your weight, body shape, energy levels, blood pressure, cholesterol, triglycerides, overall cardiovascular…
Andropause
TREATING ANDROPAUSE: Prohormones and Hormone Metabolic Modifiers Bruce Biundo, BS Pharm, RPh Professional Compounding Centers of America, Inc Houston, Texas Andropause Andropause, which is also referred to as male menopause, has been the focus of increasing attention during the past few years in the medical and popular press. Researchers and writers have more closely examined…
Progesterone
PROGESTERONE ROLES AND RECEPTORS Progesterone is a central factor in the biosynthesis of other hormones, but it also has many other important functions in the body, as shown in figure 4.2. Figure 4.2. The Multiple Roles of Natural Progesterone Progesterone has important effects throughout the body, and on all systems of the body, including acting…
Adrenal Stress
Given the types of lifestyles American live, the concept of stress has pervaded our social and biological view of being human. But while we are often told of stressful events (loss of family member, divorce, major life changes), what actually defines stress from a physiological perspective has been more difficult to grasp. Some have said…
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