Author:Gina Pastore

Nov 18 2020

Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) and Metabolism

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TRT and Your Metabolism: Can It Help You Lose Weight? Q: Can Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) Rev Metabolism and Support Weight Loss? A: Yes. TRT increases testosterone, boosts muscle growth, and raises your metabolic rate. When testosterone levels rise, your body builds more lean muscle. Muscle tissue burns more calories than fat tissue. This improved muscle-to-fat ratio can accelerate weight loss and help you maintain a healthier metabolism. Understanding Testosterone Testosterone is a sex hormone found in both men and women. It’s primarily produced in the testes for men and in smaller amounts by the...

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Nov 04 2020

6 Substances that Affect Thyroid Balance

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by Gina Pastore

What substances affect thyroid balance? Meaning of Thyroid Balance As with everything in life, finding and maintaining balance is largely instrumental in achieving success, happiness, and health. Whether it's learning to moderate how much time you invest between work and social life, family and friends, fitness and rest, or any other dichotomy, striking a healthy balance between two ends of a spectrum prevents one from prioritizing and grossly neglecting one option over the other. Just as life throws a series of balancing and juggling acts your way, our physiology also undergoes and experiences...

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Oct 10 2020

Why is Sleep Important For Weight Loss?

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by Gina Pastore

Adequate Sleep and Weight Loss Sleep; one of the last mysterious medical frontiers scientists strive to understand. There's a lot we do understand about sleeping — how it helps our brain clear away toxins and waste accumulated throughout the day, how it restores and maintains cognitive function, and how it allows for vital cellular repairs throughout the body — and then there are still other things that evade our full understanding; questions like, "why we dream" and "how come we evolved to sleep when it was entirely disadvantageous for our ancestors?" In...

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Sep 09 2020

Symptoms of Low Libido and Sex Drive

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by Gina Pastore

Keeping Your Sex Drive Alive with HRT As humans, it’s hardwired in our biology to procreate. Written within our DNA is an almost primal instinct to pass on our genetic material. If you ask some evolutionary biologists the question, “What is the meaning of life?” you shouldn’t be all too surprised when they answer back, “To reproduce…”. Looking at our environment and the millions of species that occupy our world, it’s evident that reproduction drives almost, if not, all, species. Just as it’s in a lion’s, deer’s, bear’s, whale’s, penguins,...

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Aug 11 2020

Quell Oil vs. Krill Oil

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by Gina Pastore

What is the Difference Between Quell Oil and Krill Oil? What does it mean to be getting omega-3 fatty acids into your diet? For many people, they may, in the very least, recognize that omega-3’s derive from fish but beyond that may not have much of an idea as to what that wholly means. Despite the name of ‘fatty acids’ which some could misconstrue as a negative thing, these omega-3’s are an overlooked dietary supplement that is important for our physiological needs. For the most part, as long as you have...

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Aug 05 2020

The Best Body Cleanse and Detox Diets

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by Gina Pastore

The Best Body Cleanse for Weight Loss If weight loss was as simple as “calories in versus calories out” then we’d be observing the wild success of fad diets as seen on tv and online; however, fad diet plans, extreme diets, and hours of exercise aren’t by any means a guarantee in helping you tackle stubborn fat. As we age, a crucial biological system of ours begins to work less effectively — our metabolism. Our metabolic system not only converts our food into energy for expenditure and breaks down food into essential...

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Jul 09 2020

Common Myths of Hormone Replacement Therapy

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by Gina Pastore

Dispelling Misconceptions of Bioidentical Hormone Therapy The spread of misinformation is an ever-pervasive occurrence, more now than it's ever been before. Just as the Internet has connected our society in unimaginable ways since its conception, it's also facilitated the spreading of falsehoods, conjecture, personal anecdotes framed as truths, and unfounded sensationalized claims. At the tips of our fingers, we're able to access troves of knowledge; yet a sense of vigilance is required to navigate as to avoid stumbling into false information. The field of hormone therapy, specifically bioidentical hormone therapy, is plagued...

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Jun 17 2020

7 Energy Boosting Tips For Thyroid Patients

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by Gina Pastore

Instant Energy Boosting Suggestions For Thyroid Patients: Life moves at an ever-quickening fast pace, and there’s no exception to that as we get older. With age, our day-to-day lives become overwhelming, packed with work, family and home responsibilities, and social obligations. Let alone, the weekends don’t necessarily mean a reprieve from all the pressure. While these routines we live can be manageable, albeit exhausting, there are many people out there who especially struggle with maintaining the sheer energy to power through their days. Those people face extreme difficulty in staving off constant...

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May 22 2020

How to Tell the Time is Right for Bioidentical Hormones

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by Gina Pastore

Are Bioidentical Hormones right for you? When should you start? The human body gradually slows as a result of the aging process. This slowdown is true for both men and women. The changes in one's hormones are not always obvious and more often than not overlooked. As many studies have been conducted, unbalanced hormones cause different symptoms in every human body and some last longer than others. However, you are not powerless in the battle against father time. Bioidentical hormones are available for both women and men, providing an affordable and...

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Apr 27 2020

Bolster Your Immune System

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by Gina Pastore

Best Ways to Bolster Your Immune System: Starting with Peptide Therapy There hasn’t been as pressing a global health scare in decades as the one we’re currently facing. COVID-19 has caused a lot of uproar and despair in its wake just as it has also reemphasized the mounting importance of preventative measures and health consciousness. Something on all of our minds is maintaining the right precautions to avoid any risk of contracting this sweeping virus. As we take all the necessary steps in doing so, we’re reminded of the significance of...

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