by Jessamine Sothard | Oct 16, 2023 | Blog, Hormone Health
Estrogen. Gosh, it’s so confusing! The recommendations regarding whether or not women should replace estrogen at menopause have changed over the years. Below is a breakdown of what we know and what we’ve been told. ESTROGEN IS GOOD FOR YOU. The...
by Jessamine Sothard | Oct 3, 2023 | Blog, Nutrition
There’s a lot of conflicting information about the role of cholesterol on well-being. It often has a bad reputation, but cholesterol is an essential part of cellular health. It’s true. If cholesterol is too high it can lead to bad things like heart attacks and...
by Jessamine Sothard | Sep 25, 2023 | Blog, Functional Medicine, Uncategorized
There are a lot of things that I used to believe that I now doubt in regard to medicine. Like are doctors influenced by Big Pharma? As in any profession, there are some unethical people but as a whole, the majority of doctors I’ve come to know are caring...
by Jessamine Sothard | Sep 18, 2023 | Blog, Lifestyle
Let’s raise a glass to your good health – but let’s make the contents of that glass alcohol-free. For many years, it was widely accepted that moderate alcohol use was actually healthy, in the absence of alcohol dependency or health problems exacerbated by...
by Jessamine Sothard | Sep 11, 2023 | Blog, Lifestyle, Uncategorized
Many health trends come and go, and at times it can be difficult to determine fad from fact and healthy from unhealthy (we’re looking at you low-fat and Atkins diets). In college, my friends and I would consume lots of licorice, Fig Newtons, and Snack Wells. They...
by Jessamine Sothard | Sep 4, 2023 | Blog, Hormone Health
Few areas of health care are as plagued by competing claims and confusion as hormone therapy, but when approached with a holistic perspective under medical supervision, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy can be life-changing. Conventional hormone therapy has...