Category: Women’s Health

Checking Hormone Levels

I thought we could talk about lab tests for hormones and if you should have saliva or blood testing or is it really necessary. As we have talked about before, our hormones systems work in concert with each other to maintain a state of balance. In a similar manner, the adrenal, thyroid, and sex hormones... Read more »
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Thyroid Function

I thought we could talk a bit about thyroid function and how a properly regulated thyroid is essential to a wide array of biochemical processes in the body. Thyroid hormone activity can be affected by interactions with other hormone systems and by nutritional deficiencies, which is why thyroid disease or dysfunction can explain a wide... Read more »
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DHEA – An Important Hormone Precursor

DHEA will be our topic for this month as this is a hormone precursor. What this means is that it is transformed by cell-specific local conversion to androgens or estrogens. Although it favors the androgen (testosterone) pathway it can affect either hormone. As with other hormones, DHEA declines with age. This begins in the late 20’s and continues to do so... Read more »
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Talking About Testosterone

  Happy new year! I wish you all good health, happiness and harmony in 2012. Now that we all havetime to take a deep breath and relax a bit during the cold winter I hope you will all take some extra well deserved time to pamper yourself. Testosterone will be my topic for the beginning... Read more »
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