Written by Lindsay Christensen, MS, CNS, LDN Five Ways to Support Your Precious Liver Every day, your three-pound liver saves your life. The second-largest organ in your body (after the skin), your liver works tirelessly to keep you healthy—performing a stunning array of tasks. This workhorse filters everything you eat and drink, helps usher toxins …
Detoxification: The Importance of Moving Bile with Bitter Herbs Bile. It doesn’t have the best reputation. You know it as that bitter fluid you burp up on occasion. It’s also a synonym for spite and malice. As an adjective—bilious—means spiteful and ill-tempered. So, you might be surprised to know that bile is, metabolically, like precious …
By Carol Petersen, RPh, CNP Progesterone is a hormone that is often prescribed or recommended to women during perimenopause to help ease common symptoms of hormone imbalance, sleep disruptions, and anxiousness. But when your practitioner hands over your “progesterone” prescription, do you really know what you’re getting? The terms progesterone, progestin, or progestagen are loosely …
Written by Lindsay Christensen, MS, CNS, LDN Hormones are profoundly important chemical communication messengers inside the body. Many of us understand hormones as being essential for reproduction, but in fact, they are fundamental to all biological systems. Put quite simply, without hormones our bodies wouldn’t know how to function. Produced inside the brain and endocrine …
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