Functional Medicine Insights
Evidence-based articles on gut health, thyroid, hormones, and natural healing, written by Dr. Houston C. Anderson, DC, MS.
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3 Reasons Probiotics Almost Always Fail It’s a shocking event each and every time a patient enters my office and I tell them that they can stop taking their probiotic. In fact, most patients have read so much about the
Save Your Gallbladder Gallbladder surgery (aka cholecystectomy) is becoming a more and more common. In fact, nearly 1 million people undergo gallbladder removal each year. But is it really necessary? The National Institute of Health reports that only 1% of
IUD Discomfort & Complications I recently had a female patient with a 4 year history of severe abdominal pain, shoulder pain and hip pain. Over the last few years she was able to see multiple practitioners with varied success, but
We covered decreasing your estrogen in part 1 and part 2, but increasing your progesterone is also a way to improve your progesterone to estrogen ratio. In fact, as we have discussed, it is the most common way practitioners choose
Some History and Estrogen Shocker #2 Part one of this series explained what the progesterone to estrogen ratio is and that estrogen is the problem in 95% of cases regardless of what your lab tests tell you and that estrogen
One of the most commonly used metrics to assess female hormone imbalances is to look at the Progesterone to Estrogen Ratio (aka estradiol ratio), often called the Pg/E2 ratio. When this ratio is less than 200 to 1 symptoms of
Your Toxic Belly Fat! Think that last inch or two (or 10) of belly fat is harmless? You eat “healthy and organic” yet you don’t seem to lose much weight? One of the reasons so many people struggle with belly
Vitamin E – Hormones, Health and Pain Vitamin E plays an important role in maintaining your reproductive and hormonal health, but much like Vitamin A, it was demonized by the media as being toxic in excessive amounts and it quickly
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