Do you remember the telephone game? I used to play it as a child. One child starts with a message and whispers it to the next child, who whispers it to the next, and so on. It only takes a tiny change in the message, at one or two steps, to have a completely different […]
Balance Your Hormones for Breast Health
Your hormones play a significant role in your breast health. This is great news for anyone wanting to prevent cancer (or its recurrence) because hormone levels are something you can often control. Let’s start at the beginning Hormones are tiny messengers. They travel through your body and attach onto cells. But in order to attach, […]
Hormones 101: part 3 – the baby makers
Our sex organs (the ovaries in women and testes in men) pump out our estrogen, testosterone, and progesterone. These hormones are so important for balancing our mood, libido, skin, irregular menses – basically everything – but we primarily think of them when it comes to fertility or “period problems” as I like to call them. […]