This is a great question that I often get! To start, let’s step back: Fluoride is an element that may be most familiar to us secondary to its relationship to our dental health. It is common to find it in toothpastes and mouthwashes, but since the 1950’s it was also added to the water supply …
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Four WORST thyroid buddies
Four buds your thyroid should NOT be hanging with: Stress: Excess stress will increase Cortisol, which inhibits thyroid hormone production! Infections: These can include more obvious infections like Epstein Barr and/or something more subtle like pathogen presence in your GI tract that may not even be associated with GI symptoms! However, pathogen presence *will* impair …
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Nutrients that improve thyroid hormone output
I am excited to share the nutrients that ensure proper production of thyroid hormone. As you can see, the list is not small. The good news is that many of these can actually be tested via conventional labs – the trick is knowing that they should be tested! Here’s your cheat sheet:✔️Ferritin = iron✔️Spot urine …
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Ways to reduce your toxin exposure
I recently finished up a Detox and want to share some simple top line tips on reducing toxin exposure in your life. 👉🏼Avoid Pesticides and Herbicides in your Home and Garden👉🏼Use Filtered Water👉🏼 Use Non-Toxic Household Cleaners👉🏼Use Non-Toxic Household Materials Whenever Possible👉🏼Use Natural Cosmetics👉🏼Purchase Organic Whenever Possible👉🏼Avoid Amalgams in your mouth, and consider removing them …
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What is getting in the way of your liver?
In doctor speak, we call this “impaired biotransformation”, but simply, it’s an unhappy liver. The most common reasons for this: Overwhelming Toxic Load: I see this with people who have mercury amalgams, as an example. Impaired Elimination: sluggish bowels, urinary, or sweat output Inefficient Nutrients: remember Detoxification is heavily nutrient dependent! Dysregulation of Detox Enzymes …
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Cultivating Compassion – even when it’s hard
Wednesday Wellness: Cultivating Compassion (Even When It’s Hard) It’s easy to provide warmth, caring, and compassion to those we love or to those who are perceived as innocent or non-threatening. But, what happens when it’s someone we don’t particularly like, disagree with, or that we perceive as challenging us? This…not so easy! I recently had …
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Case Study: 36 y/o Female with Bloating
SIBO stands for Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth, and is a condition that we know now is the real root cause for a majority of “IBS” cases. The Small intestine should be devoid of bacteria, but if for some reason bacteria move from the large bowel to the small intestine, you will have bacteria fermenting food …
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PRE-diabetes is already late!
Don’t let branding fool you: PRE-diabetes is already late for a diabetes diagnosis. I rarely get activated, but something that really gets me a big agitated is the way pre-diabetes is often communicated to a patient with a “Don’t worry, this is nothing to be concerned about, you’re not Diabetic.” I don’t mean to sound …
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Unhappy DNA, Unhappy YOU!
Stress, Sticky buns, and Toxins (to name a few!) will turn on genes that move us toward chronic illness or disease. The idea you were sold that your parents conditions will 100% be yours is not accurate for the vast majority of conditions. Knowing where your family has vulnerabilities can actually allow you have agency …
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COVID: another reason to get off your tushy!
It’s Friday, and we’re talking about Fitness! Self-described inactive folks are almost TWO TIMES more likely to DIE from COVID than those who met “exercise guidelines.” [Salis, et al. Physical Inactivity is associated with higher risk of severe COVID-19 outcomes. British Journal of Sports Medicine. April 2021.] Movement and Exercise prevent disease. It’s both painfully …
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SHBG – Take a Ride on the Sex Hormone Shuttle!
SHBG stands for Sex Hormone Binding Globulin, and it is a protein that helps shuttle around the hormones in your body. Why is this important? Well, this hormone lives under the constraints of the Goldilocks phenomenon — we want her not too high, and not too low. An Ideal SHBG is between 70-100. If your …
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What do statins do besides manage cholesterol?
Statins can, and have saved lives. So, I am certainly not setting up an either or question about them. But, I believe in educating people on options and knowing all the risks and benefits of those options. With that in mind, two points of education: Risk Stratification. Depending on your specific laboratory results and overall …
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