The Benefits of Ozone Therapy
Have you heard about the benefits of ozone therapy? Here are just a few of the many ways ozone therapy can help improve your health. Better energy! Ozone increases the release of oxygen from red blood cells into body tissues, making more oxygen naturally available to cells. It also stimulates oxygen metabolism, which amplifies the production […]
Complete Thyroid Hormone Testing and Optimal Ranges
As a thyroid hormone specialist, I want to talk about thyroid testing and the different types of tests available to assess how well your thyroid is functioning. Conventional Thyroid Hormone Testing The conventional test that is called TSH, or thyroid-stimulating hormone. TSH comes from the brain and stimulates the thyroid gland to tell the thyroid […]
What is the Best Way to Evaluate Adrenal Function?
First, let’s understand the adrenal glands and their function in the body. Your adrenal glands are your stress glands, and they produce cortisol, which is a stress hormone. Adrenal glands also produce other hormones, like DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone), which is a precursor to all of your other sex hormones, including testosterone, estrogen, and progesterone. Adrenal Function […]
Menopause Symptoms and Bioidentical Hormones Q&A with Dr. Lauri Brouwer
At Living Wellness Medical Center, we, as naturopathic doctors, specialize in bioidentical hormone replacement therapy. In this blog post, we answer some questions we often receive from patients concerning menopause symptoms and bioidentical hormones. Question #1: Is difficulty losing weight a menopause symptom? Dr. Brouwer: Very commonly, yes. It really is. At menopause, our ovaries […]
The Connection Between Ovarian, Thyroid, & Adrenal Hormones Discussed by Dr. Khalsa
Today I’d like to share the close association between three different glands in our bodies that produce hormones: The adrenal gland; The thyroid gland; and ovaries in women or testes in men. The Close Connection Between Hormone-Producing Glands You can think of these three hormone-producing glands as a three-legged stool, and when one of those […]
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