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…
Is Fibre Really Good For Gut Health?
This topic is continually debated about, so if you’re confused about fibre and whether or not it really is good for your gut, you’re not alone. We know from research that fibre is very important for a healthy microbiome, but “just eat more fibre” is NOT the answer to gut problems like constipation or bloating…
8 Steps to Start Balancing Your Hormones for Weight Loss
There are many things you can do naturally to support your hormones in order to lose weight. First we want to build a healthy foundation. Building a healthy foundation consists of making certain nutritional and lifestyle changes, then we can build upon it with more targeted, specific nutrients, supplements that are specific to your body and needs.
6 Hormone-Friendly Christmas Alternatives & Tips
Christmas is always an exciting time! It’s the time of year we can slow down, make memories with our loved ones and enjoy all the things that come with this season. Here are some ways to enjoy the season without sabotaging your hormones!
5 Ways to Avoid Holiday Burnout
Holiday “Burn-Out” can occur for many reasons. The most common ones being stress, whether from doing too much, family situations or physical stress on our bodies from too many Christmas treats or lack of sleep. If you’re someone who’s been working hard at healing…
4 Healthy Drinks You’ll Love This Summer!
Summer is here and we’re super excited too! It can be easy to overindulge in sweets and sweet drinks over the summer, including alcohol. While I do think it’s important to enjoy these warmer months, we also don’t want to throw our healthy living completely out the window!
The Incredible Health Benefits of Sun Exposure + Safe Sun Tips!
There are numerous health benefits of getting regular, safe sun exposure. We all know about the necessity of getting adequate vitamin D through sunshine, which you can read more about here, but the sun provides us with benefits beyond increasing vitamin D levels…
Xenoestrogens: Fake, Toxic, Hormone-Disruptors
Have you heard the term “xenoestrogens” before? If they haven’t been on your radar yet, they will be now. Xenoestrogens (pronounced “zenoestrogens”), are synthetic forms of estrogen we encounter on a daily basis, that increase estrogen and replace our natural, healthy estrogens in the body. They contribute to estrogen dominance, which is a main player in weight gain, PMS…