Women are the most intuitive patients that I work with. When they tell me they just feel ‘off’ or that they are exhausted, anxious, constipated, and unable to lose weight no matter how well they stick to their clean diets—they’re usually onto something. After a few...
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What Is Adrenal Fatigue? Symptoms and Labwork to Ask Your Doctor About
Ever feel so fatigued that you struggle to enjoy activities that are typically purposeful and enjoyable? Ever feel like you drink coffee, pop, or other caffeine sources like your life dependent on it? Can you relate? One of the number one concerns patients come into...
What to Do if You Can’t Sleep: Insomnia Tips
When you wake up in the middle of the night and you can't sleep, it can feel like a nightmare. Tossing and turning in bed. Counting down the hours and minutes until your alarm goes off. Replaying the next day's to-dos over and over in your head. Getting frustrated...
Low Iron Levels: What Are the Causes and Symptoms?
Iron loss is a normal part of your body's everyday symptoms. Sweating, shedding skin cells and gastrointestinal loss contribute to regular iron loss at a rate of approximately 1 mg/day. Menstruating women lose additional iron, equivalent to 0.5 to 1.0 mg/day if you...
7 Ways to Improve Your Quality of Sleep Tonight
We’ve hit that fall time again. Back to school is just around the cover, and for many of us and our families, that means finding regular rhythms—including our sleep patterns. Getting into a sleeve groove is about more than reducing the mid-afternoon slump. Sleep is...
Why Carbs Are Important If You Have Adrenal Fatigue
With the rise in popularity of diets such as keto and Whole30, we’ve seen many women in our clinic eating very few carbohydrates. While a low carbohydrate diet can be beneficial for certain cases, there are many conditions where a low carbohydrate diet is not...
Are We Stressing Ourselves to Fatigue? 4 Ways to Counteract Daily Stress
If you take a look at our wellness culture, it seems we’ve swapped restoration and relaxation for high-intensity and ultramarathons. We work in fast-paced jobs with long hours and intense deadlines. We forgo well-planned, well-rounded meals for prepackaged anything...
5 Yoga Poses to Do Before Bed
You’ve heard that a nighttime routine is the key to better sleep, but what tangible things can you incorporate to trigger your body and brain to start slowing down, turning off and prepping for sleep? Let's start with these five yoga poses. Creating a regular routine...
How to Tell When Your Fatigue is Not Normal
It can be easy to dismiss your fatigue and make excuses for why you can’t function throughout the day. At first, you may just decide that you’re overworked and try to go to bed earlier, stop eating carbs or drink more coffee—and those may have helped give you more...