How Does Stress Affect Your Hypothalamus?
When you’re under any kind of stress, it can affect your hypothalamus. Your hypothalamus suffers when it’s an acute stressor, meaning something’s happening to you right now. Or it’s a long-term stressor or stress that’s ongoing. Two systems are...
Can Adrenal Fatigue Cause Hair Loss?
Adrenal Fatigue is when your adrenal glands are not functioning optimally, because they’ve been over-functioning due to a heightened stress response for a long period of time. Eventually wearing them out. And unfortunately, adrenal fatigue can cause hair...
What is the Best Diet for Digestive Health?
For optimal digestive health, you need to eat the right foods. Optimal digestive health requires a diet rich in fiber. Fiber is beneficial for digestive health, but increases the gut transit time to allow sufficient time to digest and absorb nutrients from food before...
What Exactly is Gut Health and Why is it Important?
When you hear someone talk about “gut health,” what they’re referring to is basically an optimally functioning gastrointestinal tract. All of the tissues and organs between your mouth and your anus affect digestion and absorption of nutrients. If your gut is not...
The Gut-Brain Axis: How the Hypothalamus and Gut Work Together
The gut-brain axis is a communication network between the gut and the brain. The gut-brain axis includes both endocrine hormones, as well as the nervous system. Your hypothalamus is the gatekeeper between your gut and your brain. It controls your feeding behavior and...
What are the Best Supplements for Digestive Health?
It’s so important to keep your gut healthy, and sometimes your diet isn’t enough. If your gut has been out of balance for a long time, you may need to use supplements for digestive health. They will help get your gut functioning optimally. The friendly...
Have You Tried Sleep Training?
In order to help my patients with insomnia, I’ve developed a step-by-step adult sleep training guide that I’m going to share with you. If you want to set a new sleep habit, you’re going to have to do this for at least fourteen nights. First, you need a relaxing...
Why Does Hair Loss Occur During Menopause?
Menopausal hair loss is quite common. Forty percent of women notice a significant thinning of their hair by the time they’re postmenopausal. Alopecia is the medical term for hair loss. While two-thirds of women who lose their hair in menopause notice diffuse...
Why Does Pain Increase During Menopause?
Pain during menopause is the result of increased inflammation. Caused by lower sex hormones. Your body aches. Which includes your joints, your muscles, and your bones. Even your skin becomes tender. As do your mucus membranes like your eyes, mouth, and vagina. This is...
Why Do You Get Fatigued in Menopause?
During menopause, you have many different symptoms related to your declining sex hormones, including fatigue. Fatigue can be both physical and mental exhaustion. While fatigue can occur at any age, it affects over 85% of post-menopausal women and over 46% of...
Why Does Your Skin Get So Dry During Menopause?
Dry skin during menopause is a common symptom and can start early in the perimenopausal phase. Over 36% of women over the age of 40 notice dry skin. What causes dry skin during menopause? Your skin becomes dry for a couple of different reasons....The Hormone Queen®
Deborah Maragopoulos FNP
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