While many people think of periods, menopause, and PMS when they think of hormones, hormones actually control just about everything in your body – including digestion.
Lisa Watson
There is no aspect of our health and wellbeing that our hormones don’t impact. So let’s break it down here and support our smile, and oral health, with our balanced hormones.
Our liver makes bile under the influence of a hormone, somastatin, combined with other factors such as the quantity and quality of the food we eat.
But that’s not really the hormone we’re interested in. We are more interested in how our female hormones, like estrogen and progesterone, influence our gallbladder health.
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We’ve talked before about issues with birth control pills, and I’ll admit that while they are one of the oldest…
As women our period comes every month (ideally!) from our teens into our 50s. And yet many of us have NO IDEA what is really happening. Well, we understand the basics. But when something goes wrong, it’s a mystery to most of us!
What is the impact that stress has on our immune system? There is an entire branch of study known as psychoneuroimmunology that looks at how our nervous system and stress system influences our immune system. And we can learn a lot from the work of those pioneering researchers.
With 30-40% of women developing a thyroid condition in their lifetime, and rates increasing as we age, many women in perimenopause and menopause will be dealing with hormone imbalances in both these important systems.