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Are Vegans Low in Irony?
I’m flirting with veganism, again. Seems every Spring I feel a recurring stirring. A gentle tug to eat differently. I consider the sweet mother cows whose babies are taken from…
Read MoreReframe Food with Reverence and Restraint
It’s time to stop the madness with weight and food. Women aspire to thinness and this leads to distorted relationship to eating. We seek peace with food, yet we’re going about…
Read More5 Tips to Reclaim Your Thyroid Mojo
Today I’m manhandling 5 mojo-zappers. Five things that I often find are depleting the energy of patients in my integrative medicine practice. Five things I want on your radar. Five…
Read MoreThyroid Questionnaire
I love this questionnaire from Dr. Hotze, another integrative physician. It gets to the heart of whether you should be tested for thyroid dysregulation, even if your conventional doc has…
Read MoreFirst Stop: Your Hormones
Today, Imma be in your face about hormones. Was thinking I’d love to provide you with a reference guide to each hormone: who they be and what they do. Why…
Read MoreRoyal Hormones
Kate is a Perfect Hormonal Specimen. Overly reductionistic? Perhaps. While I don’t have royal fever, I relished watching a video of Kate Middleton have her day in the limelight.…
Read MoreWant me to Quote Top 40 lyrics to you? (Or, if you’d prefer, we can talk very professionally about your hormones, libido & lovely lady lumps. Oops. I did it again!)
True confessions: I’m a music addict. Did you know it lowers your cortisol? I need all the cortisol-lowering I can get. Well, to a certain point. Say, to 10 in…
Read MoreDo You Hide Behind a Tunic?
Reflecting today on my growing selection of organic tunics and what they represent psychically. Around the time that I turned 35, and met for the first time my rather unforgiving…
Read MoreMumford and Sons Raise My Testosterone!
Did you see Mumford and Sons kill the Grammys? Cannot get enough of them. They balance my hormones, among other things. I’m more than a bit obsessed with Marcus Mumford…
Read MoreFiber Is the New Sexy
What could be more sexy than a beautiful gut? All glistening and shiny, doing it’s job just right, not inflamed, not allergic, just all happy? Fiber takes you there: removes…
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