What causes inflammation?
Inflammation is a natural response of the immune system to protect the body against harmful stimuli, such as pathogens, injuries, or irritants. This inflammation is short-lived and resolves when the injury is healed, or the irritant removed. However, sometimes this...
What about a leaky gut?
Leaky gut, also known as intestinal permeability, is a condition in which the lining of the small intestine gets inflamed, allowing undigested food particles, toxins, and microbes to enter circulation. Normally, the gut lining is selectively permeable, allowing nutrients...
What is stevia?
Stevia is a natural sweetener that is extracted from the leaves of the Stevia rebaudiana plant. It is a zero-calorie, low-glycemic-index sweetener that is commonly used as a sugar substitute in food and beverages.
The Stevia rebaudiana plant is native to South America and has been...
Cortisol wakes us up in the morning, keeps us awake throughout the day, and keeps our metabolism firing. It regulates blood sugar, which makes it one of the most important hormones in the body for keeping us alive. It does all this, and it also gets released in response to...
Until you’re ready to have a baby, you may not want to take chances. Sometimes, women opt for birth control-- but hormonal contraceptives are not without their fertility risks. On average, young girls begin having sex in the early teen years and often wait to have babies till their...
Fertility is intricate, tangled into numerous factors that are playing vital roles in an individual or couple's ability to conceive. One of the factors we should consider is the role of nutrition. Are we eating enough of the right foods that support fertility and hormones? Are we absorbing the...
Whether you are trying to conceive naturally, undergoing IVF, or considering an egg donor (like my patient I was talking to today), you need a healthy uterus to support the growth and development of an embryo into a child. There are some key things you can look for to determine the health of...
Most of you might be aware that progesterone is playing a significant role when it comes to infertility treatments today. It’s also known to play an important role in pregnancy and miscarriage. But, several people ask us what progesterone does with the...
I saw an article recently titled “A new hormone test can give Utah women a glimpse of their fertility…” written in 2016. This article was about a hormone called AMH. And, what shocks me is that they called it a “new test” in 2016. This test is anything but new!...
Laser therapy is cutting edge application for rejuvenating the ovaries, reversing ovarian age, and treating infertility. In the past 50 years, low level lasers have been utilized to treat inflammation and pain in other parts of the body, specifically joints and muscles. However, research...
What is happening to our fertility? There is a steady decline in male and female infertility in the U.S. and globally. In some countries, fertility is so poor that the government is incentivizing people to pro-create. My article below will address what factors may be contributing to infertility...
The endometrium is the lining of the uterus where an embryo will implant and grow… eventually turning into the placenta to support life. It’s mostly made of mucosal tissue. The endometrium is thickened by signaling of progesterone from the ovaries, along with the rise of estrogen...
