Author: sdcarlo22

As with all things in wellness, balance is key-in your diet, exercise plan, and even your hormones. Hormones control everything from your fertility to your metabolism, mood, appetite, and even heart rate. Our healthy (and not-so-healthy) habits alike contribute to keeping them in balance. And, unsurprisingly, what you put in your body every day can…

Hormonal imbalances can cause a variety of complications, from mood swings to anxiety to leg cramps and more. And according to a recent survey of 2,000 American women ages 30 to 60, nearly half of them have experienced the symptoms of a hormone imbalance. However, 72 percent of the respondents said they weren’t aware that…

Many women are affected negatively by hormonal imbalances. To begin explaining why that is, let’s first settle on a location. Which organ is the culprit? Your first guess might be the ovaries. That’s a really good, educated guess, but it’s not entirely correct. In fact, we start the story of the potentially nasty effects of…

I remember walking down the street in New York City on a sunny winter day perplexed by how tired I felt, that I could not get a good night’s sleep, and how I was holding on to belly fat despite an almost-perfect workout schedule. I had gone to see my primary care doctor, who said…

“Hormones are like music played in a beautiful but sometimes discordant symphony,” explains New York City–based holistic ob-gyn Eden Fromberg, D.O., likening the different glands in the endocrine system that produce distinct hormones to an array of musicians that create unique sounds in an orchestra, with each having to listen to the other so to…