You forgot what you had for lunch on Tuesday, but you can still feel the exact weight of a moment from 20 years ago. A smell, a feeling in your chest, a room you haven’t been in since childhood. That’s not random; that’s physiology and your brain's priority system....
GLP 1 medications are the biggest trend in weight loss right now. Ozempic, Wegovy, Tirzepatide, and people are losing weight sometimes quickly. But the question I get almost daily is this: Is this fixing the problem, or is it just turning off my appetite? Today I’m...
Patient Snapshot CategoryDetailsAge48Cycle StatusRegular (2 yrs)BMI CategoryObeseBody Fat41%Lean Mass108 lbsVisceral Fat4 lbsWaist:Hip Ratio1.2 (High)Vitamin D29 (Low) Background & Presenting Concerns A 48-year-old woman presented seeking guidance on hormone...
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 clinical work, I have never seen an immune system that woke up one...
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 Maragopoulos, FNP, an integrative nurse practitioner, and after decades...
If your child has ADHD, their stress hormones may look very different from other kids, and that difference could explain a lot. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqDop2XcQzQ I’m Deborah Maragopoulos, a family nurse practitioner, and I’ve been studying how the...
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. You're tired but can't sleep. That's not insomnia, that's your...
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 worse, but worse didn’t mean wrong; it meant the body was shifting. If...
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 you've ever thought I should feel fine, but I don't. This is not a...
Hormones helped, and then they didn't. If your hormones stopped working, you need to hear something. This is one of the most common patterns I've seen in my practice, and it almost never means what you've been told. It's not that your body rejected them. It's not that...
Deborah Maragopoulos FNP
Intuitive Integrative Medicine
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