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Is Ozempic Killing Your Sex Drive? (It’s Not in Your Head)
Nobody warned you that losing the weight might cost you your sex drive. But for some women on GLP-1s, that's exactly what's happening — and it is not in your head. It's not a personal failing....
On Ozempic AND Hormone Therapy? One Thing No One Tells You
Ozempic and Hormone Therapy: The Absorption Problem If you're on a GLP-1 and you're also on hormone therapy, here's something almost no one is telling you: your hormones might not be absorbing the...
Ozempic & Your Brain: What It’s Really Doing Up There
Ozempic doesn't work on your stomach. It works on your brain — on a structure the size of an almond that I've spent thirty years studying. And once you understand what these drugs are actually...
Hot Flashes Explained: It’s Your Brain, Not Just Your Hormones
A hot flash doesn't start in your body. It starts in your brain — in a thermostat that has become oversensitive. And once you understand that, two things shift: the experience stops feeling so...
These 3 Chemicals In Your Home Could Be Wrecking Your Hormones
There are chemicals in your home right now — in your food storage containers, your takeout packaging, the lotion on your bathroom shelf — that are quietly scrambling your hormonal system. They're...
Adrenal Issues
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Gut Health
What is the Best Diet for Digestive Health?
For optimal digestive health, you need to be eating the right foods. For optimal digestive health, your diet should be rich in easily digestible proteins and fats made up of mid-chain triglycerides.
What Exactly is Gut Health and Why is it Important?
Gut health is a working gastrointestinal tract. If your gut is unhealthy, you’re not getting the nutrients your body needs to function well.
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.
What are the Best Supplements for Digestive Health?
It’s so important to keep your gut healthy, and sometimes your diet isn’t enough. Or if your gut has been out of balance for a long time, you may need to use supplements in order to help get your gut functioning optimally.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome And Menopause
You may find that going through irritable bowel syndrome and menopause will change your symptoms if you’ve suffered from IBS before.
Secret Avocado Oil Health Benefits!
We’ve known that avocados are beneficial to our health, so it’s only natural that avocado oil has secret benefits as well.
Hypothalamus
Autoimmunity, Inflammation and the Hypothalamus
Autoimmunity is not your immune system attacking you. It’s your immune system receiving confused instructions. I know that sounds different from what you’ve been told, but in over three decades of...
Eating Disorders and Hormones
Did you know eating disorders are as much about your hormones as your habits? Your hypothalamus plays a huge role in how you relate to food. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBmsutntPA4 I’m Deborah...
ADHD and Stress Hormones
If your child has ADHD, their stress hormones may look very different from other kids, and that difference could explain a lot. https://youtu.be/FfNIA6-HTuY I’m Deborah Maragopoulos, a family...
Why You’re Tired But Can’t Sleep
Dragging at 7:00 AM, dependent on caffeine by 10, hitting a wall at 3:00 PM, then 10 rolls around, and suddenly your brain is on. Wide awake, thoughts racing, body exhausted, but mind won't stop....
Why Healing Gets Worse Before It Gets Better
One of the most heartbreaking things I see in my clinical practice is someone stopping a healing process at the exact moment their body was beginning to recalibrate. They quit because they felt...
Stuck in Fight or Flight? Here’s What’s Really Happening
Your heart races for no reason. Your shoulders are always tight. Your jaw clenches in your sleep. Nothing is wrong. No crisis, no emergency, and yet your body acts like the threat never ended. If...
Immunity
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Infertility
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Menopause
Lab Results That Confuse Your Doctor
Your lab results say you're fine, but your body says otherwise. If you've ever left a doctor's office more confused than when you walked in. Labs are normal, symptoms dismissed, no answers. This...
The Perimenopause Symptom Nobody Warns You About
What is the perimenopause flu? The hormonal flu is a pattern of flu-like symptoms that occurs in perimenopause in the one to two days immediately before menstruation begins — characterized by...
Protect Your Bones Naturally: The Hormone Connection You Didn’t Know
Skipping breakfast might save you time in the morning, but did you know it could also be stealing calcium from your bones? Especially if you’re postmenopausal, this habit could be weakening your...
Wrinkles Start In Your Brain, Not Your Skin — Here’s Why
Wrinkles don’t just come from sun exposure or genetics — they actually start in your brain. That’s right, your hypothalamus plays a huge role in how quickly your skin ages....
This Chemical Your Body Makes During Exercise Silently Stops Hunger
Did you know exercise creates a chemical in your body that literally shuts down hunger signals? This means your workouts aren’t just burning calories — they’re flipping switches in your brain that...
Case Study: When Perimenopause, Anxiety, and Gut Dysfunction Collide
Why supporting hormones didn’t work—until we addressed the gut and hypothalamus. Many women enter their 40s expecting changes in their cycle. What they don’t expect is anxiety that feels...
Men's Health
Warning Signs of Autoimmune Disease and How To Reverse It
What are the warning signs of autoimmune disease and how can you reverse it? Let's talk about it. https://youtu.be/j3yObvUIPNo Autoimmunity means that your body is attacking itself. Your immune...
Power Up Your Plant Based Diet
Did you know that if you power up your plant based diet it can improve your hormone health? Let's talk about it. https://youtu.be/lcVb55d2-D4 Studies show that a plant based diet is the way to go...
What is Sleep Apnea?
What is sleep apnea? Let’s talk about it. https://youtu.be/0MmZObjbVpo Sleep apnea is a potentially serious sleep disorder in which your breathing stops. Your hypothalamus controls your sleep...
How to Manage Diabetes: 5 Ways to Control Blood Sugar
How do you best manage diabetes? Let's talk about it. https://youtu.be/lys2eZf8UUY More than 130 million adults are living with diabetes or prediabetes in the United States. Diabetes is...
Benefits of an Anti-Inflammatory Diet
What are the benefits of an anti-inflammatory diet? Let's talk about it. https://youtu.be/jqEmhSlj6_4 An anti-inflammatory diet is a diet that does not promote inflammation. Studies show that...
Hidden Root Cause of Disease Hiding In Your Mouth
What are the hidden root causes of disease in your mouth? Let's talk about it. https://youtu.be/PEBLbE8i-74 Most of us don't realize that the health of our mouth affects the health of the rest of...
Mind / Body
How to thrive in 2020
As an Intuitive Integrative Nurse Practitioner, I do more than help my patients get their hormones in balance. I also do a lot of counseling.
How to Release Your Old Story
Now more than ever, we are experiencing the growing pains of change. Yet we hang onto the old like a worn-out lifeline. It is human nature to fear change, yet change is part of life. What makes us...
Loving Yourself Enough To Let Go
I encourage my patients to literally clean out their closets. When they have felt stuck, reliving old issues over and over again. Seemingly making no progress. I encourage them to see this...
Creating Our Reality is just like making Bread
Sometimes it seems like life just happens to you. Yet quantum physics has proven that You happen to Life. What do I mean? Well, everything you think, what you believe, even that which is in your...
Do you know the Formula for Healing?
Mind-body medicine is becoming mainstream. We know our beliefs affect our health. That’s the placebo effect, right? But did you know that you have the power to heal yourself. Yes! It’s just a...
Educate not Medicate | Beginnings
We all have a story, why we do what we do… “Daddy, please, don't.” My father is stroking my arm. In any other context it would be fine. We are a touchy-feely kind of family. Yet at this moment, I...
Obesity
Benefits of an Anti-Inflammatory Diet
What are the benefits of an anti-inflammatory diet? Let's talk about it. https://youtu.be/jqEmhSlj6_4 An anti-inflammatory diet is a diet that does not promote inflammation. Studies show that...
How Stress and Anxiety Affect Your Diet
So how do stress and anxiety affect your diet? Let's talk about it. https://youtu.be/1HNbvosbftE Stress and anxiety can wreak havoc on your diet. And that's because, during high stress when...
5 Common Dietary Pitfalls
What are the five common dietary pitfalls that keep you from losing weight? Let's talk about it. Losing weight can be difficult. Many of us start off well at eating a healthier diet but we don't...
Top 3 Foods for Diabetes Control
What are the top three foods for diabetes control? Let's talk about it https://youtu.be/cmH3vvDiDKY Diabetes affects millions of Americans with over 10% of the population affected. Type two...
Do Detox Diets Work?
Do detox diets work? Let's talk about it. https://youtu.be/Gb9K_xuezUw There's a lot on the internet about detoxification diets - fasts, juice cleanses, weight loss detox. But there’s not a lot...
Signs of Hormonal Imbalance: 4 Symptoms to Watch For
Signs of hormonal imbalance most often include persistent fatigue, weight gain that resists diet and exercise, insomnia (especially waking between 2 and 4 a.m.), and changes in hair growth or hair...
PCOS
PCOS Natural Treatment | 3 Natural Ways to Help You Get Pregnant
If you have PCOS and want to know how to get pregnant naturally — Then this video is for you. Make sure to subscribe so I can help you get your Hormones in Harmony and optimize your health. Today...
Best way to deal with PCOS and Infertility
Do you want to know how to treat PCOS and infertility – PolyCystic Ovary Syndrome? As well as have regular periods, clear skin, less facial hair, and get pregnant? If you follow these three easy...
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Thyroid Issues
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Women's Health
Say Goodbye to Anxiety and Vaginal Atrophy with These Fixes!
How can you fix Anxiety and vaginal atrophy? Let’s talk about it. https://youtu.be/rAGj7W23kp4?si=VRQcW_thUEZ5sL27 There is a relationship between anxiety and vaginal atrophy. Both are due to low...
Why Do Some Women Still Menstruate After Menopause?
Why do some women menstruate after menopause? Let's talk about it. https://youtu.be/2fFYk3KBV-E?si=8uEEWeZ8IrcC5xQ9 You would think once you reach menopause, you would stop having periods but...
Why Do So Many Women Grow Facial Hair After Menopause?
How can you manage your post-menopausal facial hair naturally? Let's talk about it. https://youtu.be/NoJY-JBvEkY?si=-MdiVJYEGQqHKF8w The increase in testosterone in post-menopause causes...
The Dark Truth About PCOS-Related Heart Disease and Diabetes
Do you know that PCOS increases the risk of heart disease and diabetes? Yes, let's talk about it. https://youtu.be/SUZJJHzEmPc?si=tiX6uA62E0zB7SYE Polycystic ovary syndrome, or PCOS, is a...
Hormones and Your Fertility: Are You Healthy Enough To Get Pregnant?
Are you healthy enough to get pregnant?What do you need to know about your hormones and fertility to have a healthy pregnancy? Let's talk about it. ...
Why You Have Hot Flashes, Brain Fog, and Lack of Libido! Help Your Hormones!
What are some surprising factors affecting women's hormonal health and how can you help your hormones? Let's talk about it. https://youtu.be/03eu40wJSSU?si=CX4xipgYmjG9GyqN Women’s hormones are...
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