Category Archives: Hormones

Insulin and Cancer

Special thanks to Dr. Chi for permission to reproduce this educational article for you. There is a strong link between cancer and insulin resistance. In fact, the American Cancer Society and the American Diabetes Association both formally acknowledge the strong relationship between diabetes/insulin resistance and the increased cancer incidence and mortality. How does insulin resistance […]

Feeling Depressed, You Must Be Deficient in Prozac?

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath I’ve heard this story thousands of times from clients in the past. You visit your doctor, complaining of some physical symptoms and feeling a bit down and unmotivated. Your doctor then feels that ordering blood work would uncover some ailment that they can diagnose and treat, but when the results […]

What’s Male Menopause?

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath I want to first share that there is so much information available on menopausal symptoms for women but unfortunately male menopause or andropause is left out of the equation. Seemingly the only focus on male menopause is the occasional commercial on the radio to sell some supplements to enhance testosterone […]

Are Your Bioidentical Hormones Hurting You?

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath Many women are currently using bio-identical hormones to assist in combating menopause symptoms. For some women, this can help their symptoms, while many are still dealing with the symptoms of hot flashes, sleeplessness, brain fog, low sex drive, weight gain, depression and more… Regardless of whether this is helping your […]

Women Got The Short End Of The Stick

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath The level at which I see most women suffer is such a travesty and I trust the “why” of today’s article will make this as plain as day. While there has been so much talk of “equality” let’s take a look at what that means. Today’s women typically: Takes care […]

Menopause Symptoms Got You Down?

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath I have worked with thousands of women over the last 16 years overcome or even prevent symptoms of perimenopause and menopause. As they enter their mid forties, my female clients often share their fear of the upcoming perimenopause and menopause years. This make sense though, since both perimenopause and menopause […]

Worried about hormones?

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath I am so excited that there was another recent adrenal summit called the Adrenal Reset Summit. After all, anything that brings awareness to stress hormones and adrenal function is good in my book. Many people that see my emails actually initially found me when I did the original Adrenal Summit […]

Different View On Breast Cancer

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by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath Instead of breast cancer awareness month I would love to have a breast cancer prevention month. Thinking about this further, I would actually like to think of breast cancer prevention every month, right? The challenge with breast cancer awareness is that most, if not all, of the money collected, is […]

Stress Hormones Cause Food Sensitivity?

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by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath Most people are under the impression that food sensitivity is a food issue. This may be news to you but most food sensitivity issues are not due to the food itself. Now I will share that Americanized wheat, which is deamidated, hybridized and full of aflatoxins, along with genetically modified […]

The Number One Factor Affecting Your Thyroid

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by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath Today we are going to address the number one factor that is affecting your thyroid. The past two weeks we have addressed thyroid function on other deep core factors. If you have missed these, feel free to click on the links below. Wondering Why You’re So Tired? The Thyroid Issue […]