Category Archives: Hormones

The Thyroid-Adrenal-Weight Loss Connection

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by Lynda Buitrago You’ve been gaining weight even though you ate well and exercised regularly all last year. You even tried eating fewer calories and increasing your exercise, but nothing’s been working! “Why?” you wonder. You’re feeling desperate, so you’re considering cutting your calories even more, or to train for a marathon this year to […]

The Adrenal, Immune, Inflammatory Trilogy

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by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath Through the years of working with clients and assisting thousands regain their health and happiness, I see one consistent core challenge for a very high percentage of chronically health challenged individuals. This is tied into the trilogy of adrenal function, immune function and inflammation. To understand this, let’s first look […]

Is Sleep Eluding You?

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By Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath So many clients enter into Depke Wellness with poor sleep habits to to point that I would share that these numbers are staggering. Proper sleep is one of your fundamentals of health that is essential, unfortunately our culture often views sleep as a luxury and not an essential component to […]

Your Hypothyroidism May Actually Be Adrenal Insufficiency

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Millions of people in the United States take levothyroxine, a synthetic form of T4, the inactive thyroid hormone. In fact, levothyroxine is the #4 most prescribed medication in the U.S. The liver, gut, and other tissues into a form that the body’s cells can use must convert T4 into a usable, or “active,” form. This […]

Why are your hormones crazy?

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by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath As you are most likely already aware of, hormone balance is a significant focus of Depke Wellness. We have reviewed over 4,500 adrenal test kits in our history and out of these 4,500 health challenged individuals, we have seen only 5 tests return with normal adrenal function. Yes I said […]

Addison’s Disease, Adrenals & Autoimmunity

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by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath Addison’s disease is an autoimmune, inflammatory condition of the adrenal glands, resulting in the gradual destruction and inability to make sufficient amounts of adrenal hormones.  The most common symptoms of Addison’s disease: weight loss muscle weakness fatigue loss of appetite low blood pressure darkening of the skin in many cases, […]

The Adrenal/Ovary Connection

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by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath So how important is adrenal function to ovary function? Maybe comparable to peanut butter and jelly or cheese on pizza, you get the picture… We’ll take a look at this connection today to help you understand not only the importance of the connection but also provide some incite on balancing […]