Category Archives: Stress Support

Eat to balance your hormones?

Frustrated-Hormones

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath Let’s get right into it today. We have seen some book releases lately on how to eat to balance your hormones and I would like to you to take this information with “a grain of salt” as the saying goes. Don’t get me wrong, the food you eat does play […]

Heart and Thyroid – an Intimate Relationship

Heart-cardiogram

by Lynda Buitrago In 2014, more than one in three adults had some form of cardiovascular disease (CVD). Since 1984, more women than men have died from CVD. Despite this, heart attacks are still mistakenly thought of as a primarily male affliction, so women with symptoms of heart attack are often sent home from the […]

Are your adrenals taking down your heart?

Heart-stress

by Glen Depke We are coming up on the end of heart health awareness month and I cannot believe I have not discussed one major factor in heart health that most will not recognize, and this is adrenal health. First off, let’s recognize that one of the top three impacts on heart health is mental/emotional […]

Get Back That Loving Feeling

Couple-in-bed

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath Last week I wrote and article “3 Reasons Why You May Have Lost that Loving Feeling” discussing the impact your hormones, neurotransmitters and cardiovascular system will play in your ability to experience intimacy with your significant other. If you missed that article, read this here. As promised, this week I […]

3 Reasons Why You May Have Lost that Loving Feeling

lost-that-loving-feeling

by Glen Depke, Traditional Naturopath Valentine’s Day is coming up and this will often lead to conversations about relationships and intimacy. The unfortunate part of this conversation is that most are actually discussing the lack of intimacy. Sad but true. Of course this lack of intimacy can be driven by mental, emotional and feelings toward […]

Hormones and Weight Loss

Hormones-Weight-Loss

When we think about weight loss we typically think about diet and exercise. Far too often the issue that is staring us back in the face is the diet and exercise does not leave us with the weight loss goals we are looking for. How can that be? After all, we’ve been told for years […]

More Energy, Weight Loss & Adrenal Function

Fatigue-Weight-Adrenal

Two significant factors that are simply “in your face” on a more consistent basis is fatigue and weight gain. What most are not thinking about is that these feed on each other and also have a common denominator, which is adrenal function. For your body to feel satisfied nutritionally, it truly needs to feel satisfied […]

Three Absolutes for Weight Loss

Weight-Loss-Goals

Today we will discuss three absolutes that are essential for healthy weight loss, defining this as reaching your weight loss goals and maintaining your new healthy weight long term. Let’s start of by understanding who this article is written for. If you have focused on weight loss in the past, you’ve lost the desired weight […]

The Thyroid-Adrenal-Weight Loss Connection

Help-Weighing-scale

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 […]

Top Ten Weight Loss Lies

Lies

It’s the beginning of a new year and what is one of the biggest new year’s resolutions for so many? If you guessed weight loss, you are right on! Did you know that most of the people that are making this resolution this year also made the same resolution last year? Perhaps you are one […]