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Unlock the Secret of your Energy, Weight, and Mood: Thyroid Explained

Learn how your thyroid affects energy, weight, and mood. Discover why this tiny gland is the secret to feeling your best every day. Read more

Menopause Weight Gain: Why It Happens and How to Overcome It

Learn why weight gain happens during perimenopause/menopause and discover hormone-friendly steps to manage your weight during this time of change. Read more

Are toxic relationships sapping your energy? It’s time to take action

Toxic relationships can quietly drain your energy, leaving you exhausted without knowing why. In this post, we explore how emotional immaturity and narcissism can contribute to these toxic dynamics, and how recognizing the signs can help you reclaim your energy. Read more

Understanding inauthentic fatigue and how to overcome it

Explore the concept of inauthentic fatigue—how pretending to be someone you’re not can lead to emotional exhaustion. Through personal examples and practical tips, you’ll learn how embracing authenticity can restore your energy and improve your well-being. Read more

Super-pleaser Fatigue: how people-pleasing could be draining your energy

As a people-pleaser, it’s easy to overlook how draining it is to compromise your boundaries. Taking care of yourself first isn’t selfish—it’s essential for lasting energy. Read more

Understanding Thyroid Health: 9 Essential Tests You Need to Know

As a naturopathic doctor, I often encounter patients struggling with thyroid issues. Proper diagnosis and management of thyroid health are crucial, and this starts with the right tests. Here are the nine essential tests that can help you and your doctor better understand your thyroid function. Read more

How this simple lab test can reveal the cause of your fatigue…and your weight gain

A friend of mine told me about this new book about a month ago. It was by a neurologist I have great respect for, David Perlmutter. I have heard him speak in person several times and basically trust anything he has to say. I nearly fell off my chair when I read some of the things he was saying. There was a new marker - using an old test - that could reveal information that could help me help my patients even more. I got so excited, I started testing all my current patients for it. All of these conditions have this marker in common: Read more

Improve your overall health now with this one thing

Considered worse than smoking a pack of cigarettes a day - this is of utmost importance for your overall health. Contributing to diabetes, stroke, cancer, heart disease and a myriad of other health issues, this one thing can improve your health in countless ways. Read more

Here is the secret human hunger driving your food choices

If you’ve been reading my blogs the last week or two, you know about the first 4 human hungers. Today we are on human hunger number 5. It’s why you get bored eating the same thing over and over. And it’s tightly linked to another human hunger. What is it? Read more

How to unlock difficult weight loss by knowing the 6 human hungers

One of the reasons I am obsessed with knowing how our body works is that the most important currency for me, besides time, is energy. How, when and what we eat is a large determinant of our energy. And understanding why we want the foods we want is part of that knowledge. If you didn’t know there are 6 types of human hunger, you know it now. And I revealed the first two in my last blog. I’m sure you can guess some of them, but understanding how they work and putting it all together can be a game changer. Read more