Author: Amanda

The many benefits of vitamin e

Might sound weird, but vitamin E is actually pretty amazing! Vitamin E works as a powerful antioxidant in the body. ⁣⁣Because of this it helps to combat the following:⁣-inflammation⁣-excess estrogen⁣-heart disease⁣-fertility issues⁣​⁣What I find most fascinating about vitamin E is specifically how it reduces the impact of excess estrogen. Vitamin E acts a lot like […]
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3 Ways Magnesium Impacts Our Hormones

Magnesium is one of the more well known minerals. It is required for over 3,000 different reactions in the body to occur properly including processes involved with heart health, detoxification, stress reduction, nutrient status (vitamin D, excess sodium, Ceruloplasmin, calcium), bone health, dental health, blood sugar balance and mental health. I think one of the […]
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Functional Food Highlight: Organ Meats! ⁣

If there’s anything I want you to know about organ meats, it’s that they are extremely nutrient dense. That’s why I’m highlighting them as a functional food.⁣Liver, kidneys, and heart all contain beneficial nutrients. Liver is definitely the most nutrient dense source, but they all have benefits. ⁣ ⁣Let me put how nutrient dense liver […]
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Getting To The Root Of High Calcium On An HTMA

Calcium is a misunderstood mineral. While it’s often touted for its importance for bone health, it does SO many other things in the body. We need enough calcium in order to have optimal heart health, a healthy nervous system, proper muscle growth and contraction, cell division, blood clotting, maintaining pH balance, supporting thyroid health, and […]
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Conventional vs Functional thyroid treatment

I’ve had too many clients that can’t even get their doctor to test their thyroid, despite obvious symptoms, or retest their thyroid 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘪𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘯 𝘮𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. This should be a crime.⁣⁣⁣​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​The other piece of this is once they get treatment, their symptoms don’t always improve or only improve for a short period. Why […]
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As estrogen increases cortisol increases

The majority of my clients struggle with estrogen dominant symptoms such as acne, hair loss, weight gain/difficulty losing weight, waking at night, low blood sugars, hypothyroidism, heavy, painful periods, bloating, and so much more. It can be hard to decipher where these symptoms come from since they can all seem like they stem from different […]
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Minerals In Action-Client Case!

Carly came to me because she didn’t feel like herself. She was once a vibrant, go getter that was always be exploring a new hobby on top of her day job as a nurse, until one day it seemed like it all came to a halt. She started experiencing a harder time getting out of […]
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Nutrition mistakes that can lead to excess estrogen

In my previous blog post, I discussed how when estrogen goes up, cortisol goes up and how this can be hard on our hormone balance. Let’s dig into 5 ways that your food can lead to excess estrogen (relative to progesterone). 1. Not eating enough bio-available proteins that are found in animal foods. Without adequate […]
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Thyroid Health Shifts On The Healing Journey

Our thyroid health impacts all systems of the body because it sets our metabolic pace. This means it controls how fast or slow our metabolism is working and how much energy we are burning. You can have a thyroid that slows down and isn’t functionally as optimally as it could be without having a hypothyroid […]
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The ways mental and emotional stress can increase estrogen

In this post we are digging into mental and emotional stressors. When we experience excess stress over long periods we get an increase in cortisol. This leads to more cortisol binding proteins to bind to excess cortisol. Unfortunately, these also bind to progesterone leading to lower progesterone levels, higher cortisol, and high estrogen. Mental and […]
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