Category Archives: Menopause

Why It Can Be So Difficult To Lose Weight

The Weight Gain/Inflammatory Hamster Wheel by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath and Founder of Depke Wellness Do you have a desire and a need to lose weight? Do you find it difficult to lose weight? Have you lost weight in the past, only to gain this back? Do you wondering how and why your best friend […]

Nutrition and Hormones

Hormones and Nutrition I wanted to talk about a subject that’s very important to you, which is tied into hormones and nutrition. You see, I’ve heard something recently that in my opinion is ridiculous, is somebody shared that nutrition doesn’t impact to hormones, and literally that cannot be further from the truth. See, just from […]

How the earthquakes impact your health.

Hi everybody, it’s Glen Depke from Depke Wellness, and I want to talk about the earthquake. But hold that thought, because the earthquake that has just happened in Southern California just a few days ago, I want to use that as an analogy for your health now. You see, the earthquake, which was a 7.1, […]

An Antibiotic That is Worrisome for Thyroid Patients

When it comes to life-threatening infections, antibiotics have been a GodSend, however for minor infections the following antibiotics are troublesome and are known to cause some nasty side effects. The antibiotic family I am referring to are fluoroquinolones. You may also see it referred to as quinolones. The following make up the quinolones: Ciprofloxacin, Cipro, […]

5 Cellulite Busters – Inside and Out

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath While cellulite is mostly an inside job, there are outside areas to address also. I think most people would share this opinion, cellulite is gross and nobody wants to endure this! Agreed? Or course! While cellulite can be an issue for men and women, the simple known fact is that […]

Is Adrenal Fatigue a Lie?

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath It is for most of us… There is new cutting edge research that shows us that adrenal fatigue is not the issue for most people. Unfortunately this information will likely not become mainstream for about two decades and even your holistic practitioner may not catch this focus shift information soon […]

How Do You Figure Out This Mess?

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath The mess I am talking about is referring to testing in functional medicine and the mess is not knowing what to do, and when to do it. After all, there’s so much to consider. Adrenal saliva testing for your stress hormone system Stool testing to look for pathogens Urine testing […]

Common Chemicals and Breast Cancer Risk

You have likely heard the phrase that “ignorance is bliss.” The problem though is that ignorance can be very damaging to your body as recognized by these tow chemical challenges. Triclosan is an antibacterial and antifungal agent widely used in many different products, such as hand soap and sanitizer, plastic kitchen tools, cutting boards, high […]

Sick of Waking Up Tired!

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath I hear it all the time from clients, “I wake up after sleeping and I’m still exhausted.” This is often frustrating to most and long term, this can be downright hopeless for some. So how can you change the way you feel when you wake up? Are you thinking, “does […]

The Secret About Weight Loss

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath I am going to cut to the chase right away today. Weight loss really has nothing to do with weight loss. I know, you’re thinking “Glen, are you crazy?” Crazy, maybe, but just being realistic here. Maybe we can say it’s just about weight loss if you are undergoing liposuction […]