Category: Women’s Health

A Big Part Of Women's Health: Thyroid Conditions, Hormonal Imbalance & Heavy Metal Toxicity

A Big Part Of Women’s Health: Thyroid Conditions, Hormonal Imbalance & Heavy Metal Toxicity

Women with any type of chronic conditions that are seeking alternative or integrative medicine should be evaluated by their health provider for heavy metal toxicity. Hormonal imbalance, thyroid conditions and other chronic conditions affects millions of women on a regular basis. Heavy metal toxicity plays a vital role in many medical conditions today. Although some metals are necessary minerals our body needs, most heavy metals in the body are toxic and cause thyroid problems, learning disabilities, hormone imbalances, neurological problems, and can cause cancer and many other health problems.   Heavy metals can be found in the air we breathe, the food we eat, clothes, machinery, tap water, in buildings, cooking utensils, and dental fillings, to name a few. Essential nutrients…

Women's Holistic Health: Simple Effective Ways to Achieve Optimal Digestion

Women’s Holistic Health: Simple Effective Ways to Achieve Optimal Digestion

Digestion is a major problem in 21st century lifestyle. Everybody is too busy to sit down and eat properly, or healthily and there is a massive increase in colon cancer cases.  The question we must ask of ourselves is why does this happen? Followed by what can I do about it?  Why Indigestion?  Let’s start with why does this happen because this has far wider implications than mere indigestion.  Indigestion is nothing more than a symptom that your digestive juices are not performing the function that they are designed to perform.  In a nutshell that means that your body is not disposing of excess or waste products. This causes indigestion, heartburn etc. It also assists in putting on weight and…

Women’s Health: Hormonal Imbalance & Restoring it the Natural Safer Way

Women’s Health: Hormonal Imbalance & Restoring it the Natural Safer Way

A number of novels and stories of the early 18th and 19th centuries often portray women as mad and irrational beings, thus, espousing the creation of mad women literature.  But, modern medicine dispels this “mad” attribute. By establishing that women’s hormones are more sensitive and susceptible to change than that of men, more attention is given to female health.  Menstruation, menopause, PMS, and perimenopause – these are all part and parcel of general health topics related to women.  Aside from that similarity of being part of female health, these phenomena are due to one thing: hormonal changes.  Hormones are fickle, they change with the slightest variation in diets or physical activity. Sometimes even emotional upheavals are enough to make women’s…