GLP-1 medications can cause a portion of weight loss to come from muscle rather than fat. Studies on GLP-1 receptor agonists suggest that a third or more of the weight lost may come from lean muscle tissue. This isn't unique to these drugs — it...
What is the root cause of PCOS? The root cause of PCOS is best understood as a disruption in the hypothalamic-pituitary-ovarian axis — the hormone communication system linking the brain and ovaries. This disruption creates both metabolic and...
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=FfNIA6-HTuY What Research Shows About ADHD and Cortisol I'm Deborah Maragopoulos, FNP, a...
How Stress Affects the Body: The Amygdala-Hypothalamus Link How stress affects the body starts in the brain. When the amygdala senses a threat, it alerts the hypothalamus, which triggers adrenaline within seconds and then cortisol through the HPA...
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...
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...
High FSH does not mean you're done. I know that’s not what you were told. I know someone, probably your doctor, looked at that number and said some version of, “You’re heading into menopause,” or, “Your ovaries are failing.” But if you’re still...
Nearly 80% of autoimmune patients are women. Women are seven times more likely to be sent home during an active heart attack, and endometriosis takes an average of seven to 10 years to diagnose. These are not opinions; these are statistics, and...
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...
Your body is not ignoring your effort; it's overriding it. If you can't lose weight, no matter what you do, eating clean, exercising, tracking every calorie, and the scale either won't move or moves down and then snaps right back up, you need to...
Deborah Maragopoulos FNP
Intuitive Integrative Medicine
