Hormones In Harmony

Everything is about communication. If you’re running a business and you cannot communicate with your staff, things are going to go wrong. Same thing in your body. Miscommunication is the basis of dis-ease. Dis-ease, not disease. Out of balance, out of harmony. Not a permanent state. Dis-ease. Now when I say hormones, I’m not just talking about sex hormones like estrogen and testosterone. I’m not just talking about thyroid hormones or adrenal hormones. I’m not just talking about insulin or growth hormone or melatonin. I’m also talking about the hormonal messengers that run your nervous system called neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine are just smaller hormones. And I’m talking about the hormonal messengers that run your immune system called cytokines. You may have heard of interferon or interleukin, these are cytokines, the tiniest of the hormones.

This entire system of hormones is called the neuro-immune-endocrine system. Medicine separates these into three specialties – neurology, immunology, and endocrinology – yet these three systems are dependent upon one another. To truly assess and treat a patient, I take them all into consideration. While I’m going to focus on your symphony of hormones, your neuro-immune-endocrine system – your biochemistry – is part of the bigger picture that I call:

The DMAR® Pyramid of Health is the philosophy that I developed over many years of assessing and treating thousands of patients with hundreds of different complaints. And they all fit into this one system. The base of the DMAR® Pyramid of Health is ENERGY. Remember, energy is everywhere, energy runs every system, and without energy, matter wouldn’t exist. So when I say ENERGY, do I mean electric energy, or magnetic energy, or light energy? Yes, all this and more. Let’s say you walk into a conference room full of people. No one’s saying anything, but you feel uncomfortable. You somehow know something’s wrong. Perhaps the hair on the back of your neck is standing up, or your gut feels anxious, but you can feel the emotion in the room by its energy. And guess what, if you’re super sensitive, the people don’t even need to be there. You could walk in an hour after the angry people left, or a day, or even week later, and feel the energy of their anger. Have you ever been to a site where many people died? Few people that visit concentration camps can deny that they feel the fear still imprinted in those places. That’s energy. Ok, if this seems a little strange, let me ask the moms how many times have you woken up in the middle of the night knowing something was wrong with your child, rushed to her bedside and found her sick with a fever? That’s energy. Your child didn’t call out, she’s way across the hall, and you were sound asleep. Yet her fear brought you to her side like you were tethered by an invisible cord. It’s energy. ENERGY is the base of the DMAR® PYRAMID OF HEALTH. A pyramid has four sides. One side is the ENVIRONMENT. Your health is affected by the environment in which you live. If the environment is toxic, your body chemistry is affected. For instance, people who live near nuclear waste, like Three Mile Island, have a higher risk of cancer. One side is your ANATOMY. Your physical structure affects your health. That is the basis behind chiropractic and osteopathic medicine. If you’re out of alignment, your health is affected. But it’s more than that. I have many patients come to me missing body parts. A woman who’s had a hysterectomy does not have the same function as a woman who has her uterus and ovaries intact. Missing body parts, especially endocrine glands, affect how your body functions. One side is your PHYSIOLOGY. The way your body functions is your physiology. Your physiology includes all the biochemicals – hormones, neurotransmitters, immune factors, enzymes – that run your physical body. One side is your BELIEF. What you believe becomes. That’s the basis behind the placebo effect. If you believe enough in a treatment, it’ll work, even if that treatment is a sugar pill. And your belief can cause disease. Let me tell you a story about Linda’s niece. Linda came to me with lump in her genital area. I didn’t like the look of it so I biopsied it. It came back as metastatic breast cancer. Only 32 years old, Linda had three young children. Linda’s fifteen-year-old niece was very concerned about her own breast health so I examined her. I reassured her that her breasts were healthy, and that she was not at risk of breast cancer like her Aunt Linda. Why? Because Linda’s niece was her husband’s sister’s child. They were not related. Linda’s niece came to see me every month worried about her breast. I counseled her regarding how belief creates reality, trying to teach her visualizations and techniques to release her fear. Yet a few months after Linda died, her niece came to me with a breast mass in the same location of Linda’s primary tumor. Her fearful belief created her tumor. What you believe becomes. And your belief can heal you, too!

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The only plant based supplement that balances the maestro of your symphony of your hormones – Your Hypothalamus!

In the center of your brain, your hypothalamus lies vastly unappreciated. Part neurological tissue and part endocrine tissue, your hypothalamus is largely ignored by neurologists as a primitive brain structure. Endocrinologists pay it little heed because they cannot measure its hormones without sacrificing the lab animal. But your hypothalamus is crucial to life. Your hypothalamus orchestrates your entire symphony of hormones. If your hormones are harmonious, you are healthy, vital, youthful, and vibrant. If your hormones are out of harmony, you are sick, tired, aging, stressed, and eventually dis-eased!

A biochemical symphony controls your body’s function. Hormones, neurotransmitters and immune factors act as biochemical messengers that sing to your DNA. If you’re hormones are in harmony, your DNA dances health. These “hormones” control all of your body’s functioning—digestion, detoxification, growth, repair, sleep, sex drive, reproduction, stress response, metabolism, body composition, immunity, healing, cognition, learning and memory.

I have been taking care of patients of all ages for nearly 30 years. While my conventional training focused on the treatment of the symptoms of disease, my intuition guided me to search for the underlying roots of dis-ease. As a nurse practitioner using intuitive integrative medicine, I perceive the roots of dis-ease…biochemical, psychological, spiritual. Yet I believe healing is innate, encoded within our DNA. Personally, I no longer need bio-identical hormones, multiple supplements, radical diets, or compulsive exercise to be healthy, energized, balanced and happy. No longer hormonally challenged, I am thriving physically, mentally and spiritually. Genesis Gold® has been such a blessing in my integrative medical practice. Many of my patients wish to find more natural ways to heal dis-ease.

When I left conventional medicine to practice Intuitive Integrative Medicine, I started to see the most challenging cases. That’s when I began to assess and focus my treatments on the symphony of hormones produced by the neurological, immune, and endocrine systems. That’s when I discovered, rather rediscovered, the HYPOTHALAMUS. The hypothalamus is a crucial organ in your brain that runs the entire neuro-immune-endocrine systems. And when the “hormones” produced by the neuro-immune-endocrine system are out of balance, the body malfunctions which we call dis-ease. Although, we learn about the hypothalamus in premed anatomy and physiology classes, by the time we begin our health care practice, we forget the importance of this primitive brain structure. We just don’t appreciate the hypothalamus. We cannot measure the hormones the hypothalamus produces, so we don’t deal with it. Yet the hypothalamus plays a vital role in the orchestration of the symphony of hormones. Hormones directly control the DNA and most dis-ease is a result of hormonal miscommunication.

The hypothalamus orchestrates our entire system. Feed the hypothalamus and harmonize the symphony of hormones so the dance of the DNA expresses health and vitality. What could I feed the body to tap into the genetic potential for health and wellbeing? After much research and soul searching, I surrendered and in my dreams a formula was revealed… The first seven nights I awoke each morning from my dreams and wrote what I remembered—sets of seven amino acids. Each corresponding to the hypothalamic control of the endocrine glands. Seven times seven. After following my intuition and paying close attention to my dreams. I began clinical studies. I believe what we intend becomes. So I mixed the plant based amino acids with the intention to heal the physical, emotional, mental and spiritual body— the precursor to the full Genesis Gold® formula… Like any scientist, I was my own guinea pig… I took the special Genesis Gold® amino acids along with my patients in the first pilot study. But first I took myself off bio-identical hormone replacement therapy I had been using to treat runner’s amenorrhea. I also stopped all other supplementation. Within two months, I had my first normal menstrual cycle in over 20 years. I also craved meat…which was disturbing since I had been a vegetarian for seven years. But I had decided to “listen” to my body like I instructed my patients…so I ate meat. And felt great! In fact, my mild anemia cleared up. Then I began craving orange vegetables—pumpkins, yams, butternut squash. So I ate them too and did not suffer from the winter blues. Interesting. Granted, I had put on five pounds, my overweight patients do not gain, most lose the extra body fat. I apparently needed to gain…the same amount of weight I gained each time I conceived. In spite of my gynecologist’s warning that with such low body fat, I was probably infertile, my two children came to me in dreams (like Genesis Gold®), so I let my body take over AND it gained five pounds AND I conceived. Not since my pregnancies had I been so attuned to my body. It was like my DNA was talking…loudly…telling me what to eat, when to rest, and how much to exercise. Genesis Gold® amino acids changed my life. I slept well for the first time…having suffered somnambulance—sleep walking nearly every night for 18 years was exhausting. Yet I could no longer exercise. Now I usually instruct my patients on regular exercise. But I was fanatic. I only had 12% body fat, I had been running competitively since high school and had competed as a triathlete for seven years before conceiving Genesis Gold®. Almost as soon as I began the Genesis Gold® amino acids, I could not even think about running without my Achilles tendon aching horribly. So I walked. I learned to dance. I rode my horse. And when my body said it was ok to run, I enjoyed the scenery for the first time ever. Once I found the best manufacturer for Genesis Gold®, I switched to the full formula. I am better supported, no more outrageous cravings to fill in my nutritional deficits. And I eat well. We grow most of our own fruits and vegetables and buy organic, but even I cannot gather all the nutrients necessary to support my body, mind, and soul in our modern world. So now with Genesis Gold®, I can eat anything I desire and I feel great. Over the past thirteen years, I have maintained that crucial five pounds, no more, no less, without obsessive exercise. And I’m now going through menopause at 55, although my three younger sisters have been menopausal for the past eight years—a testament to how stress robs you of your hormonal competence without the hypothalamic support of Genesis Gold®. As a healer dealing with the Hormonally Challenged, I need extra hypothalamic and genetic support to maintain optimal health. Although Sacred Seven® amino acids are in Genesis Gold®, I take extra Sacred Seven® amino acids to help me maintain my creative energies…to help you, my patients, my colleagues and myself heal…body, mind and soul.

Choosing to take Genesis Gold® is making a commitment to your future health. For those newly ill, most recently out of balance, it may take weeks or months to optimize their health.

For those out of balance for many years, it’ll take longer. It’s like making the choice to quit smoking. Let’s say you’ve smoked a pack a day for thirty years. You feel worse before you feel better. You cough up pretty yucky stuff as your lungs clear out years of toxicity. It’ll take at least thirty months to restore healthy lung function. Same with Genesis Gold®. Most people find Genesis Gold® when their health is truly challenged. Oftentimes they’ve tried many therapies before finding my website, reading an article, or being referred by a friend. I counsel them that according to how long they’ve been ill is reflected by how long it’ll take to restore wellness.

Those who commit to taking Genesis Gold® as their daily foundational support will keep optimizing their health. Genesis Gold® has adaptogenic herbs to help support your adrenals, sea vegetation to support your thyroid, whole plant nutrients to optimize your hormone production, digestion, detoxification, immunity and energy production as well as the Sacred Seven® amino acids to balance your hypothalamus. Genesis Gold® provides foundational support for lasting change.

Adding extra Sacred Seven® to Genesis Gold® for the first few months or during times of extreme stress will provide the hypothalamus with extra support to speed the healing process.

After eighteen years of no menses, it took two months of taking Sacred Seven® before I had my first normal period. Yet not until I started taking Genesis Gold® was I able to stop taking all the other supplementation to support digestion, detoxification, and hormone metabolism. And when I began the menopausal roller coaster a few years ago, I added back Sacred Seven® to my Genesis Gold® to help me flow through this hormonal challenge as gracefully as possible.

No, of course not. But I will. Why? Because I want to feel this great all the time. I always want this level of energy – enough to get everything I need to get done and do everything I love to do. I always want to sleep deeply, to dream, to remember my dreams. I want optimal health. And I don’t want to take drugs. I don’t want to just treat symptoms. I always want my body to talk to me. To tell me what it needs. I know how to eat for my body but I’m not going to follow a strict diet to be healthy. I don’t have to with Genesis Gold®. I can have dessert or wine or cheese and I don’t have to pay for it… My body detoxes perfectly with the help of Genesis Gold®.

My metabolism hums along at a youthful pace so I don’t have to wear those extra calories I consume. Plus I have lots of energy to stay active. You won’t find me sitting around. Being sedentary is one of the biggest factors in all disease and leads to early death. I want to be this active and healthy and vital when my grandkids have children of their own! In 2015, I went to Nicaragua on a medical relief trip. I spent the week traveling through mountain roads to help the poor, jumping in and out of the back of a pickup truck to deliver food baskets, fit children with shoes, and provide needed medical care.

I’m 55 and the teenagers who were helping couldn’t keep up with me! They thought I was in my thirties! Bless them! So will I ever stop taking Genesis Gold®? Probably not. Oh, I’ll take breaks twice a year like I have for the past sixteen years. Once after the holidays and once around the summer solstice, I take a break from Genesis Gold® and do a dietary liver cleanse. It’s up to you, of course. See how you feel. With Genesis Gold®, I sleep soundly, have lots of energy, my hormones are balanced, and I’m a lot happier! I wish optimal health for you too! You can click here to see what my happy clients have experienced.

May Genesis Gold® help keep Your Hormones in Harmony®,

–Deborah Maragopoulos MN FNP