I had been struggling with an underperforming thyroid for years. At my annual physicals the standard blood tests showed my TSH levels steadily rising well outside “normal” ranges. I exhibited many of the typical symptoms (we’ll get into below) and finally in 2020 my well-meaning doctor prescribed “Nature-throid” to be taken daily reassuring me it was “natural” as he knew my avoidance of all medications. I...
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The human body is not a machine. One way we know this is the more you use your body the better it works. Use-it-or-lose-it is a mantra to live by. You might have heard of knees, hips or discs wearing out but there is usually more going on than over-use. Toxic burden and/or a shortage of nutrients are likely the main culprits preventing your body secreting...
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I’ve been talking about bugs a lot lately. Not the kind with wings or that you might find crawling under a rock but the teeny tiny kind that we can’t see without a microscope. Maybe because they are so small we don’t think of them very often but it turns out these microscopic organisms may hold the key to health or sickness in all of...
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Every woman of a certain age goes through it and every man who loves a woman of a certain age suffers nearly as much! While much maligned and feared in countries like the US and UK, and addressed as if it’s a condition that needs to be treated, elsewhere menopause is celebrated as a normal part of aging and appreciated as a sign of maturity....
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