How to Recognize and Treat Adrenal Fatigue Adrenal fatigue is real, although we often don’t know what that means and rarely do we blame our fatigue on the adrenals. Most people likely don’t even know they have adrenal glands or where they might be. So it’s not surprising that many symptoms directly related to adrenal…
Autoimmune Disease Is Quietly Killing Us Doctors have said for decades that heart disease is the number one cause of death, followed by cancer and autoimmune diseases. Yet a paradigm shift is taking place. Science now shows that atherosclerosis and cancer have autoimmune components in their early stages. Atherosclerosis, which was previously considered a fat-storage…
What do water retention and water weight have to do with weight loss goals? Have you ever had the unsettling experience of stepping on the scale in the morning and discovering you’ve gained 3 pounds overnight? No, you didn’t “fatten up” while you slept. In fact, it’s nearly impossible for those 3 pounds to be…
HCG for Weight Loss HCG for weight loss … does it really work? I’m a natural skeptic. As a nurse practitioner specializing in weight management, I wanted hard facts before recommending HCG for weight loss. This is especially true when something sounds “too good to be true.” I believe that many diet programs out there…
Ketogenic Diet: Here’s the Skinny on one of America’s most popular diets. Everyone these days seems to be talking about the ketogenic diet. What is it, and more importantly, does the ketogenic diet work? The ketogenic diet is not a new fad. It’s been used as a weight loss tool for more than nine decades…