Category Insulin Resistance
Why you need to understand Glucose – Part 2
What if when you knew when you were 40, that you were going to have Alzheimers and you could reverse it? What if you knew that something wasn’t right in your brain and your mental sharpness when you were in…
What is PCOS and why you need to understand it
PCOS is a common diagnosis that affect up to 10% of women. It’s best defined as a group of symptoms related to anovulation (the lack of ovulation) and a high level of androgens or male hormones. The main symptom of…
A big change that most women know little to nothing about…
We may be too easily labelling pre-peri-menopause/aging, but really have it all wrong. Lowering progesterone, inflammatory oestrogen, and inflammatory cytokines often become provocateurs of a series of problems. Metabolic hormones respond with…– increasing cholesterol,– increasing blood pressure, – increasing TSH,…
Why you need to understand Glucose – Part 1
Oestrogen changes the composition of glucose. After 38, this is a particularly vulnerable window for women with a history of Why this matters: One out of every two women develop insulin resistance. Insulin resistance often doesn’t get mentioned because there’s…
The Four Stages of Menopause [including Post-Menopause]
The Brain-Body Re-calibration. Symptoms Explained: From 40 to 50, 50 to 57, and After Menopause. There’s lots of confusion for women about what is happening in their bodies from about 40 years of age. With time, women are told to…
5 Blood Work Clues that can suggest subclinical thyroid dysfunction……
Hi Thyroid hormones are the main metabolising hormone in the body.They affect every cell and every organ in the body. One of the most common things we hear in the clinic from our patients is the journey from one doctor…
[Patient Story] Fatigue, Chronic Weight Gain, 5 years after menopause & coming off HRT… (Test Results Inside)
Hello, FIVE kilos.That’s the national medical recording average of expected weight gain, that will not go down after menopause. Many women just want the symptoms to stop during peri-menopause and menopause. The weight gain is bad, but the need for…
[Patient story] 15 years and Carol felt like giving up…
Hello, 15 years Carol tried to get herself together.She was struggling with her… Everything felt very overwhelming and she felt like she had tried everything. Deep inside, she felt like something wasn’t right, and everyone was saying to her, “if…