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 Gut Dysbiosis Creating Hormonal Chaos?
If you’ve been dealing with symptoms like painful, heavy or irregular periods, mood swings, hormonal acne, PCOS, endometriosis, bloating and weight gain, there’s a good chance you’re dealing with gut dysbiosis and estrogen dominance…
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…
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…
5 Reasons Your Libido Vanished & How to Get It Back
Having a healthy libido and enjoying intimacy is an important sign of health as a woman (and man). While it’s common to have decreased desire at certain times of the month, if you’re missing this area of your life, that’s something you and your doctor should take note of.
5 Tools for Better, Deeper Sleep
If you struggle with falling or staying asleep, there are many natural tools you can use to get better, deeper sleep. I recommend starting with your diet and sleep hygiene first (check out all the tips below!) and building upon your routine from there…
Sleep Your Way to More Balanced Hormones
If you’ve ever wondered if your sleeping habits are connected to the high levels of stress, anxiety and hormonal concerns you’re dealing with, you’re onto something. Our circadian rhythms, which are intricately linked to our sleep cycle, controls much more than just sleep. It also affects our mood, weight, energy levels, thyroid and adrenal health, fertility…
How to Restore Balance with Functional Medicine
Your body is always fighting for you.
I know it often seems like it's fighting against you, but it's really not. It's working hard around the clock to bring you back into balance. It's a term called homeostasis, which is "any self-regulating process by which biological systems tend to maintain stability, while adjusting to conditions that are optimal for survival."
Are You Eating Harmful Fats?
Fats are needed in our diet for many reasons, including building cell membranes and hormones, supporting brain health, vitamin and mineral absorption and some even help lower cholesterol. There is a massive difference between a healthy, cold-pressed olive oil and the trans-fats found in packaged cookies or fries. Not all fats are created equal and eating the wrong type can be detrimental to our health and promote aging…
Why You Should Practice Seed Cycling for Hormonal Balance + Recipe!
Seed cycling is an effective and relatively inexpensive nutritional therapy that makes a great addition to your hormone-balancing protocol. As women, we experience natural fluctuations in our hormones throughout the month and have different nutritional, physical and psychological requirements and desires depending on the time of the month. Before we dive into how to do seed cycling, let’s talk about the different phases of our cycle…
6 Incredible Superfoods for Balanced Hormones
At Winnipeg Nutrition, we firmly believe that food is medicine. Nature provides the most amazing tools to help us heal and stay balanced - that includes our hormones too! Here are some superfoods to add to your healthy diet for more balanced hormones…
Best (And Worst) Foods for Candida
So you think you have candida, now what? A great place to start is with a diet that’s going to help bring your gut microbiome back into balance. Candida usually isn’t eradicated by diet alone, so in addition to diet changes, we recommend working with someone who can help you clear the infection with natural anti-fungals…
6 Reasons to Do A Liver Cleanse This Spring
It’s almost spring, which means it’s the perfect time for a liver cleanse! The liver is our most metabolically active and hardest-working organ in our bodies, responsible for carrying out over 500 functions. Some roles include filtering toxins and bacteria…
5 Ways to Lower Insulin & Improve Insulin Resistance Naturally
Insulin resistance has become an epidemic and chances are, unless you have diabetes, you've likely never heard of it. It's estimated that upwards of 50% of all US adults are insulin-resistant and that number is even higher in other countries. I talked about what it is in this article and today I'll unpack tools that you can use to lower insulin and begin to heal insulin-resistance naturally…
Fix PMS With These 6 Tips
Think you're destined to suffer when that time of the month comes around? Think again! PMS is not something we need to be taken out by every time our cycle starts. Here's how you can use functional nutrition to balance your hormones naturally and stop those dreaded PMS symptoms…