Strong bones, bone density, optimal bone mass, bone growth, and bone rejuvenation are all topics vital to the quality of your health. Premium-quality minerals, vitamin D, vitamin K, and other important bone-building nutrients are essential to provide adequate nutrition for the ongoing process of bone rejuvenation.*New science shows that managing the...

Wellness Resources Weight Management Supplements help improve leptin hormone communication, reduce food cravings, increase energy, support healthy thyroid function, and improve blood sugar metabolism. They make getting started on a weight loss program easier and can help you get beyond a weight loss plateau.* Nutritional supplements are tools to use in...

Healthy hair is a reflection that dietary intake of structural nutrition is adequate to offset the demands of stress. Specific nutrients not only help hair, but help nourish internal body structure.* Brittle hair, dry hair, or hair thinning or falling out are all signs of needing structural nutrition. Stress and sluggish thyroid function can also...

Your nutritional status prior to pregnancy, during pregnancy, and after pregnancy is essential to the health and development of your child. Ensure you get the highest quality, most important nutrients and vitamins for prenatal health. Preparing for Pregnancy Ideally, you should be of proper body weight and eat in harmony with the fat and pregnancy hormone...

Leptin is the single most important hormone that regulates your body weight. It is the boss of thyroid hormone, insulin, growth hormone, and adrenal hormones (like cortisol). Understanding leptin and working in harmony with it opens an entire new world of possibilities to maintain and attain optimal metabolic function. Leptin is known as the fat hormone...

When you feel in balance, you know it! You have good energy, mood, and stress tolerance and just feel like yourself. Your female hormone system requires tremendous energy to function healthfully. Female hormones are derived from adrenal hormone precursors, and thyroid hormone governs the rate at which both adrenal hormones and female hormones are...

The impact of thyroid function on arterial stiffness and consequent elevation in blood pressure is a new finding helping to explain yet another adverse consequence of poor thyroid function on cardiovascular health. Researchers showed that correcting sluggish thyroid function (subclinical hypothyroid) enabled a return of better blood pressure function.

Most people think that hypothyroidism causes obesity. While this can be true, growing evidence demonstrates that elevated leptin causes increased susceptibility to autoimmune thyroid disorders like Hashimoto’s and Grave’s disease.

If you want to achieve healthy thyroid function, it's time to examine your diet!

Are you bumping into things too often? Impaired coordination is one of the first signs of sluggish thyroid function. Even if your thyroid lab numbers are normal, you may benefit from thyroid nutrition.

In the last ten to fifteen years substantial progress has been made in understanding whiplash injuries. Many individuals who suffered from whiplash injuries were thought to be malingering or seeking insurance or disability benefits without cause from minor motor vehicle accidents. These individuals, most commonly women, often suffer upper neck and back...

A study shows that PCB contamination is a major factor that disrupts thyroid function and structure. PCB contamination remains rampant in the American food supply.

Serotonin activates cell survival and apoptotic death responses in cultured epithelial thyroid cells.

Thyroid function and the risk of Alzheimer disease: the Framingham Study.

Thyroid hormone-dependent development of the GABAergic pre- and post-synaptic components in the rat hippocampus.

Association of thyroid function with arterial pressure in normotensive and hypertensive euthyroid individuals: A cross-sectional study.

Organ specificity in autoimmune diseases: thyroid and islet autoimmunity in alopecia areata

Thyroid function and changes in ultrasound morphology during antiviral therapy with pegylated interferon and ribavirin in patients with chronic hepatitis C.