A Safer Weight Loss Alternative to GLP-1 Drugs?
In recent years, GLP-1 receptor agonists like Ozempic have gained popularity for weight management and controlling blood sugar. However, while effective, these drugs can come with significant side effects. In our previous blog post, we discussed the risks of GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic…
Are GLP-1 Drugs like Ozempic The Golden Ticket to Weight Loss?
The use of trendy weight loss drugs has been no secret over the past few decades and you’ve likely heard of the latest trend that’s taken the media by storm: GLP-1 antagonists (aka GLP-1’s), with one of the most popular drugs being Semaglutide, or perhaps better known as Ozempic…
6 Benefits of Collagen for Women in Their 30’s and 40’s
Collagen is a well-known beauty supplement, but there is so much more to collagen than meets the eye. As a woman focused on optimizing fertility, maintaining youthful skin, and supporting hormonal balance, collagen peptides can be a fantastic addition to your wellness routine. In this blog, we’ll talk about the top 6 benefits of collagen peptides and how to choose the best type of collagen for optimal results...
6 Reasons to Avoid Refined Sugar When Trying to Conceive
We get that your fertility journey can feel overwhelming. One area we highly recommend prioritizing is your diet, particularly reducing your refined sugar intake (for men and women.) Refined sugar is seemingly everywhere in modern diets, but it can have adverse effects on your body, especially when you're trying to conceive...
Could Your Fatigue, Hair Loss, Bloating & Weight Gain Point Thyroid Imbalance?
The amount of women that come to see us in our clinic with fatigue, hair loss, bloating, and weight gain is extremely high. While these issues can arise from a variety of causes, they are always interconnected and can be indicative of underlying thyroid problems. The thyroid, a small gland located in the neck, plays a crucial role in regulating metabolism, energy…
5 Non-Toxic Swaps for Healthier Hormones
Summer is a great time to find healthy, non-toxic swaps for some of your essential household and personal products. I know it can feel overwhelming when you start reading about how everything is toxic (we’re with you on that one!), but when you take it one step at a time and focus on a single category, it makes it a lot easier, less overwhelming and totally doable to clean up your home and personal products…
Your Healthy Summer Guide For Lower Cortisol Levels
If you’re like me, you wait for summer all year long! The warmth, sunshine and fresh air are so rejuvenating, but with summer being so short, it can also be a season where we pack our schedules full, which can cause cortisol, the body’s main stress hormone, to rise. For women, maintaining a healthy…
How Cortisol Impacts Your Hormones As A Woman
Cortisol is known as the body’s main stress hormone, but it does a lot more than make us feel stressed or anxious. It has a wide-spread impact on the variety of hormones and systems throughout the body. This article will give you a high-level look at how elevated cortisol levels can impact various hormones and hormonal conditions, such as insulin, PCOS, fertility, thyroid health and PMS…
5 Steps to Detox for Less Bloating, More Energy & Clearer Skin This Spring
In today's fast-paced world, our bodies can easily become overwhelmed with toxins from our environment, processed foods and everyday exposures. These toxins can wreak havoc on our digestive system, tank our energy, create issues with our hormones…
Keys To Calm In Your Luteal Phase
Last time, in part 3 of our 4-part series, we discussed how to optimize the Ovulatory Phase of the menstrual cycle. Today we’ll be breaking down how you can encourage a healthy and balanced luteal phase to feel your best in the week or so leading up to your period…
Optimizing Your Ovulatory Phase
In our last blog, we talked all about optimizing the follicular phase, where the ovaries have been preparing an egg for ovulation. Following the follicular phase, we have the ovulatory phase, which typically occurs around days 13-15…
Your Guide to Thriving in Your Follicular Phase
In this 4-part series, we’re sharing all about how you can optimize your nutrition, focus your exercise and adjust your lifestyle to thrive throughout the 28-day menstrual cycle. In our last article, we talked about the Menstrual Phase (days 1-7) and shared how you can begin to adapt these areas to promote easier periods. Today, we’re talking about the the Follicular Phase, which the menstrual phase is technically a part of…
How to Nourish & Move Your Body For Easier Periods
The menstrual cycle is a natural and intricate biological process that occurs in the female body, typically lasting around 28 days. It involves the monthly release of an egg from the ovaries, and if fertilization does not occur, the shedding of the uterine lining, resulting in menstruation. There is much more significance to the menstrual cycle beyond reproduction and it impacts everything from energy levels to creativity, motivation, mental and physical health and overall well-being.
Create Your 2024 Holistic Wellness Plan
Happy New Year!
Going into a new year, it can feel both exciting and overwhelming as you set new goals, create new habits and develop healthy routines. In 2024, prioritizing our well-being has never been more crucial. In this blog post, we'll explore a step-by-step guide to creating your wellness plan for 2024, ensuring not only physical health but also mental and emotional balance…
7 Holistic Tips for Stress & Hormone Balance For The Festive Season
Christmas festivities are in full swing and the last thing that’s likely on your mind is eating mindfully and healthfully right now. Don’t worry, we’ve got some ideas to help bring some balance this season, specifically when it comes to food and your hormones…
How to Enhance Your Sleep Through Regulating Your Circadian Rhythms
Our bodies run on 24 hour cycles called circadian rhythms. While you may be familiar with how our circadian rhythms affect the sleep-wake cycle, they impact much more than sleep, including mood, energy and hormones, such as melatonin, cortisol, insulin and testosterone. Today we’ll be touching on ways we can begin optimizing sleep through regulating our circadian rhythms with light, nutrition, meal timing, gut health and more!
How Inflammation Fuels Hormonal Imbalances + Our Top 10 Anti-Inflammatory Foods!
Inflammation is at the root of nearly every disease process. It contributes to hormonal imbalances, such as HPA-axis dysfunction, hypothyroidism, infertility, PCOS, irregular periods, as well as PMS and menopausal symptoms. The good news? There’s a lot you can do to bring inflammation down!
Easy Nutritional Ways to Support Elimination for Healthy Hormones
If you’ve been trying everything to balance your hormones, have more energy, improve your mood and feel balanced, but you haven’t addressed your gut health, you’re missing a huge piece of the puzzle. You can’t have healthy hormones without a healthy microbiome, good nutrition and efficient elimination…
You're Not Running the Right Thyroid Tests
Hypothyroidism, which is characterized by an underactive thyroid gland, can have a significant impact on how you feel and function. While hypothyroidism can occur in both men and women, it’s more likely to be present if you’re a women. In this article, we’ll discuss common symptoms of hypothyroidism, why hypothyroidism is frequently missed by conventional tests…
3 Ways Stress Impacts Fertility
Stress is a commonly overlooked area that has a major affect on fertility. If you’ve simply been told to reduce stress, or that your issues are “all in your head”, that’s not what I’m saying here. But how we react and respond to stress does significantly impact our hormones…