Aug 16 2022

Can You Lose Weight With Peptides and Boost Metabolism?

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Peptides and Your Metabolism - Can Peptide Hormones Reboot Your Metabolism? Peptides are small amino acid chains. Long chains of peptides are what form proteins. Each peptide in the body is responsible for a specific function. Peptides signal cell-to-cell communication and tell your cells what to do. Peptide therapy can: Decrease body fat Increase lean muscle mass Increase cell turnover of skin, hair, and nails Increase recovery time and healing Improve sleep Increase hormone production Decrease blood sugar Support the immune system Improve the strength of bones But perhaps one of the most...

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Jul 27 2022

How Hormones Affect Your Memory

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by Gina Pastore

Hormone Balance and Memory Loss Hormonal changes can affect nearly every body system. The “brain fog” description is commonly used to explain memory symptoms resulting from hormone changes. Read on to learn about how hormones can affect your memory. What are hormones? Hormones are chemicals your body makes and then sends through your bloodstream to give instructions for body functions. Hormones affect Growth and development Metabolism Sexual function and reproduction Mood Cognitive function and memory Hormones are produced by your body’s endocrine glands, which include the Pituitary Pineal Thymus Adrenals Pancreas Testes Ovaries How do...

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Apr 16 2022

Perimenopausal Women and Estrogen Dominance

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by Gina Pastore

Changes in Hormone Levels and Estrogen Dominance in Perimenopausal Women Perimenopause is the time when a woman is transitioning to menopause. During the perimenopausal period, women can experience many symptoms. The process varies with the individual, and the perimenopausal period can last from two to ten years. What is perimenopause? Perimenopause is triggered by changes in the natural hormone levels. You may experience symptoms such as: Irregular periods. Periods can become unpredictable with the time between becoming shorter or longer. The period itself may also change, sometimes lighter, sometimes heavier. You may even...

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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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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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Feb 10 2020

Why You Should Consider Estrogen Therapy

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by Gina Pastore

Considering Estrogen Therapy? Here are several reasons you should: Our bodies are complex systems of biochemical processes that govern how we live, how we look, and how we feel. In our youth, hormones are triggered, released, or stifled as part of the many biochemical processes that play a critical role in our development from adolescence into adulthood. It should be noted that puberty isn’t the only instance within our lives where dramatic physiological changes happen; these dramatic changes occur throughout our lifetime as we continue to grow older. As our biological...

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