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Functional Medicine Articles & Blogs

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Cortisol: A Necessary Evil

Cortisol, often referred to as the "stress hormone," plays a pivotal role in our body's response to stress and overall health. Understanding cortisol can help you navigate your challenges with hormones, fatigue, and sleep.

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Is Your Libido *Actually* Low?

Understanding Responsive Sexual Desire

Responsive sexual desire is a way of experiencing intimacy where interest in sex develops in response to certain contexts, stimuli, or experiences, rather than arising spontaneously….

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Top 3 Signs

Feeling sluggish, bloated, or like your metabolism just isn’t working for you? That’s your body signaling that it needs a reset.

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Guide to Avoiding Nightshades

A Comprehensive Guide to Avoiding Nightshades in Your Diet

Nightshades, a family of plants that includes tomatoes, potatoes, peppers, and eggplants, contain compounds like alkaloids, solanine, and lectins, which can trigger inflammation, digestive upset, or joint pain in sensitive individuals.

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Intermittent Fasting… PASS

While intermittent fasting might be beneficial for some, it’s not something I’d recommend for women who are still cycling.

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Top 5 Pelvic Floor Problems & Prevention

Pelvic floor issues, particularly common around pregnancy, can significantly impact quality of life but are treatable with specialized pelvic floor therapy. Common problems include painful intercourse due to musculoskeletal changes and scar tissue from deliveries, prolapse where pelvic organs drop into the vaginal canal, diastasis recti from abdominal stretching, low back pain linked to pelvic dysfunction, and urinary stress incontinence.

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