Are you having trouble making it through your day due to fatigue, trouble focusing, or feeling frazzled? Is your sex drive in the dumps? Or are you experiencing higher than normal stress levels that may be causing hair loss, dull skin, nagging digestive problems?...
Pregnancy and nursing are times to be extra vigilant about what you're putting in (and on) your body. Pregnant women especially have an increased need for nutrients to grow and deliver a healthy baby, and I recommend you get as many of these nutrients as possible via...
This is a guest post by my colleague and friend Carla Hernandez, The Acne RD. Carla is a certified nutritionist and Registered Dietician who is passionate about holistic skincare and natural beauty. She takes an integrative, real food approach in her practice to help...
Working hard at a weight loss program without seeing results can feel devastating. Weight loss goes far deeper than calories in-calories out. It's a complex hormonal game that involves regulation of thyroid hormones, cortisol, ghrelin and leptin (your "hunger...
Did you know that anxiety is more common in women than men? I'm seeing it much more often among the women with whom I work, and it's something with which I'm intimately familiar. I struggled with panic attacks in my 20s and anxiety that would seemingly strike without...
I get a LOT of questions about skin care. Some of my clients are working to heal eczema, acne, or psoriasis, and holistic skin care is a big part of their protocol. Others just want to know how to have the healthiest skin using natural ingredients. We know that the...
Birth control pills scare the crap out of me. I recently researched the lower dose combination pill options and discovered that a single pill contains over 20 times the amount of estrogen your body normally produces. The pill's job is to suppress progesterone, the...
After taking hormonal birth control pills for 10 years and deciding I no longer wanted synthetic hormones in my body, I quit them in my mid-late twenties and assumed everything would go back to normal. Instead, I didn't get a period for over a year, but I still...
Special Announcement: Thanks for reading! Before you leave a comment asking me if you can take vitex with whatever other drugs/herbs you are taking, or for specific advice about what supplements you can take for your circumstances, understand that I cannot give you...
Alcohol is a staple in our culture: 86.8 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime; 70.7 percent reported that they drank in the past year; 56.4 percent reported that they drank in the past month. More than...
Nodules. Lumps. Tumors. I was in a googling frenzy, looking for something to ease my mind when I knew something I felt wasn't quite right. I don't recommend frenzied googling in a panic over "could it be cancer?" (or any self-pathologizing, for that matter). Breast...
When I see a new female client, I ask for lots of information about her menstrual cycle: Is it regular? Does she track it? Is the bleeding heavy with painful cramps? Does she experience PMS symptoms or migraines? Irregular cycles are common, but that's not always...