Year: 2019

If you’re still feeling depressed, tired and the scale won’t budge, you’d be surprised how these small tweaks can get your TSH levels normalized. For about one in seven of the 10 to 12 million Americans with an underactive thyroid gland, conventional treatment with the synthetic thyroid hormone levothyroxine just isn’t enough. If you continue…

At Women in Balance Institute, we believe the cure for breast cancer is prevention. Our goal is to help women reduce breast cancer risk through lifestyle, natural hormone balance and bioidentical hormone treatments. Hormone health experts believe this active awareness can ultimately reduce breast cancer diagnosis, breast cancer treatment and breast cancer recurrence. We hope to…

I am 48, a mother of two beautiful children, a successful career woman with a loving, supportive husband — who told me, “I love my husband to bits, he is the best thing that’s happened to me, and such a wonderful father and supportive and kind man and husband. But I swear sometimes I just…

Many people believe that weight gain and loss is all about calories and willpower. However, modern obesity research disagrees. Scientists increasingly say that a hormone called leptin is involved. Leptin resistance, in which your body does not respond to this hormone, is now believed to be the leading driver of fat gain in humans. This…

Many women report that changing estrogen levels affect their weight, particularly around menopause. They may notice that they are gaining weight, or that it is more difficult to lose weight. Some forms of estrogen are linked with how the body controls weight gain. As such, any changes in their levels could then lead to changes…