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Neurotransmitter health and balance: Dopamine for contentment
Dopamine is the hormone of contentment and feeling centered. Feelings of discontent, hopelessness, decreased stress tolerance and volatile temper is a sure indication that your dopamine system may not be functioning as well as it should to ground you.Adventure...
Neurotransmitter health and balance: Serotonin for joy
Serotonin is the neurotransmitter of pleasure and enjoyment, feeling good. Serotonin is the main hormone associated with good mood, feeling happy, enjoying your life, family and friends. If you do not feel happy, get pleasure from things you used to enjoy or feel down...
Neurotransmitter health and balance: Acetylcholine for cognition
Neurotransmitters and brain hormones play an important role in how we feel, behave and determine our emotional and intellectual lives. Much of these hormones, like serotonin and dopamine are found in the digestive tract, making digestive tract health essential for...
Low Carb, High Protein diet slows cancer growth
A low carb high protein and moderate fat diet is clearly very beneficial in 1) slowing tumor progression 2) tumor penetration/initiation of new tumors. In addition, mice on a low carbohydrate diet maintained normal body weight and exceeded normal life span. Low Carb,...
Dextrose Prolotherapy and Knee Osteoarthritis
A colleague and someone that I learned directly from, Jeff Patterson DO, co-authored a recent blinded trial of dextrose prolotherapy vs. placebo injection or exercise therapy. The results suggested that prolotherapy is an effective solution for knee osteoarthritis...
Prostate Health Awareness Month
Researchers say a cheap, generic pill called finasteride (Propecia, Proscar) prevents almost 40 percent of low-grade prostate cancers without increasing the risk of dying from more aggressive tumors. Finasteride is known as a 5-alpha reductase inhibitor, which means...
Adrenal & Cortisol Status in Fibromyalgia: H-P-A Dysregulation
Fibromyalgia patients have stronger, measurable stress responses as measured by increased stress signals secreted by the pituitary to recruit more stress hormone production from the adrenals, ie the brain signals the stress system to activate. In contrast, the adrenal...
Adrenal & Cortisol Status in Fibromyalgia: Cortisol Receptor Resistance
In addition to lower cortisol levels in the morning and throughout the day [in patients who really need higher levels to support them through their daily stress and pain], Fibromyalgia patients demonstrate decreased cortisol receptor sensitivity. This adds insult to...
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