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Lose Weight by Controlling Your Hormones

  By ironman45 | April 15, 2013 - 9:51 pm | stress, weight loss
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When we hear the word “hormones,” our first thought is about sex hormones. However, the hormones discussed here are not sex hormones, they are hormones that control or affect our weight. An endocrine hormone is actually any chemical messenger that travels from where it is produced through the bloodstream to another part or parts of the body where it exerts its effect. Our hormones interact with each other to create a fast-acting chemical control system for our entire bodies. For weight control, hormones rule! (more…)

7 Adaptogen Herbs to Lower Cortisol

  By ironman45 | April 10, 2013 - 3:21 pm | Uncategorized
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It’s likely that you’ve heard about the detrimental effects of the stress hormone cortisol. Elevated cortisol levels can affect every physiological system in your body including your thyroid and adrenal glands. It can make you anxious and irritable, lead to weight gain and bone loss, contribute to diabetes and heart disease risk, and deplete your energy levels.

Cortisol is also known as the aging hormone.  When cortisol gets too high it puts you into a “fight or flight” response which stimulates your sympathetic nervous system and your adrenal glands.  When this occurs there is a decrease in your digestive secretions and a increase in blood pressure.  This puts your body in a state of constant stress which will burn out your adrenal glands, stress your digestive tract, and cause you to age more rapidly.  So if you want to look younger, feel younger, and be healthy you must get your cortisol levels balanced. (more…)

Bacteria Respond to Your Hormones: How Stress Feeds Candida

  By ironman45 | January 13, 2013 - 10:18 pm | candida/yeast, stress
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You’re not the only one that can sense stress. The bacteria living in your body can too! Stress signals to bacteria that you are weak and that it is time invade.

Stress is largely perceived.

Stress initiates what is known as your fight-or-flight response, which causes the release of stress hormones like epinephrine from the adrenal gland.

Stress hormones stimulate a feeling of excitement, causing the heart to race and the breath to become quick and shallow.

Adrenal stimulants like caffeine, road rage, traveling across time zones, a fight with your spouse, and even a television program can do the same thing – they can all activate the fight-or-flight signal within the body. (more…)

Adrenal Fatigue

  By ironman45 | December 17, 2012 - 4:34 pm | chronic fatigue, stress
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In my previous article I discussed Susan, a 38-year-old woman with insomnia that gradually increased over the past two years. Her sleeplessness came from adrenal fatigue. Disruption of the adrenal hormones can result in adrenal fatigue, which frequently interferes with sleep. This article about adrenal fatigue explores the hormones involved and the symptoms of this condition so you can recognize it.

Adrenal Gland Hormones And Stress (more…)

How You Can Have High Blood Sugar Without Carbs

  By ironman45 | October 18, 2012 - 3:08 pm | diabetes, stress, weight loss
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High blood sugar is bad. Carbohydrates raise blood sugar. Therefore carbohydrates are bad. The theory is simple, and yet incredibly flawed.

The truth is, you can have chronically high blood sugar even while religiously avoiding every starch and sugar in sight. Low-carb forums are littered with posts asking a very relevant question:

Why is my blood sugar so high when I’m not eating any carbs?

The answer is simple, yet often overlooked.

The Hormone that Raises Blood Sugar: No Carbohydrates Required (more…)

Control Stress Naturally

  By ironman45 | February 27, 2012 - 6:25 am | stress, weight loss
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Suzy-Cohen-1_2Dear Pharmacist,

You’ve said that stress causes higher levels of the hormone cortisol and that causes weight gain and disease. I have lost my home and dealing with the emotional fall out and the anguish of scaling down and moving. How can I control cortisol as I deal with this grief? My good health is all I have left. –M.L., Palm Beach, Florida (more…)

Adrenal Fatigue the Ignored Epidemic of Modern Civilization

  By ironman45 | December 18, 2011 - 9:12 pm | chronic fatigue, depression, stress, thyroid, weight loss
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Adrenal Fatigue the Ignored Epidemic of

Modern Civilization

Ignored by mainstream medicine, adrenal fatigue is a common problem seen routinely every day at any busy medical office. The paramount symptom is fatigue unrelieved by sleep.  Other symptoms include craving for salty foods, hypoglycemic episodes, decreased libido, stress intolerance, light headed upon standing, depression, loss of memory and cognitive decline, allergies, sinus problems, and prolonged recovery from flu-like illnesses. The basic underlying cause is low cortisol output by the adrenal glands. (more…)

New Research Shows Fat Cells Can Be “Sick” And Cause Massive Metabolic Damage

  By ironman45 | November 12, 2011 - 5:43 pm | diabetes, weight loss
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Not general sickness like the cold and flu.  But we all know we can get sick.  Did you know fat cells can also get “sick”?  It’s true, and fat cells are the last tissue you would think of.

Adipose tissue, or more commonly known as F-A-T, is considered a major organ, and among other fat tissue like visceral and intra-abdominal, are keys in the development of Diabetes, metabolic syndrome, and other inflammatory diseases.   What was once thought of as a storage unit for free fatty acids, new evidence shows fat releases hormones and peptides which are important to maintain proper energy balance.  (more…)