Individuals are quite confused by many thyroid-related medical terms that are bantered about: hypothyroid, hyperthyroid, elevated thyroid autoantibodies, or Hashimoto's thyroiditis to name a few. Oftentimes an individual will have all the symptoms of a low or underactive thyroid yet lab tests come back normal. In other cases, lab tests do not come back...

Stress implies that there is an increased need for energy. Leptin, which is overall in charge of your body's energy spending systems, also regulates your adrenal and nervous system response to stress. When leptin systems work efficiently you have a better ability to tolerate stress, do not feel wired up or exhausted from stress, and do not eat in response...

When using nutrition to support leptin function you are simply trying to nourish your overall leptin system, along with your other systems. This approach falls under the category of assisting the healthy structure and function of your body and is not the treatment or prevention of any disease or medical condition.The topics previously listed are key...

Wellness Resources® Daily Energy Multiple Vitamin™ was originally designed to help people who had little or no energy. This multivitamin truly helps turn on energy production. Part of our secret is using all coenzyme forms of B vitamins, which are the actual type of B vitamins your cells use to make energy. Ordinary B vitamin supplements or B vitamins in...

At least one good bowel movement per day is necessary for health. Two or three bowl movements per day are fine, but not required. If you get constipated, it is a major plumbing problem and consequently stresses all aspects of detoxification. Many times adequate fiber (Fiber Helper™) is enough to keep your bowels moving along and suggestions given in the...

It is always possible that stress can be the entire cause of any digestive-related symptoms. This is because there are many nerve endings in your digestive tract, and stress chemicals banging into the wall of your digestive tract can produce any symptom of indigestion, irritation, and impaired or disrupted motility. In actual practice, stress is typically...

Changes in the sequence of genes take tens of thousands of years of adaptation. In theory this would mean that the stress felt by a mother during pregnancy would not be genetically passed on to the child. However, new science shows another mechanism for genetically passing along stress. And a second study indicates that one of the adverse health...

Instead of pondering your next meal, now a person will be able to lose weight while pondering if they would like to live. Is the benefit worth the risk? Sanofi-Aventis's drug Acomplia is one more example of how artificially influencing appetite signals, and thus leptin, is like playing with dynamite. Leptin is powerful, it controls survival. When...

Mitochondrial damage is something that consumers need to be aware of. Many age-related and seemingly unrelated disorders occur as a result of cumulative damage to mitochondria. Unfortunately, the list of medications damaging mitochondria function continues to expand. Are your medications damaging your mitochondria and putting your health at risk?

Whatever fats you eat are likely to wind up as structural components of your brain cells. A new study followed 8,964 people who had never experienced depression, for six years to see the impact of fast food on developing depression. Those who ate the most junk food had a 51percent higher risk for developing depression for the first time. The moral of...

Obesity drugs are big business, pulling in 1.2 billion in sales last year. The British Medical Journal just published a review of the three main weight loss drugs and found that Orlistat increased rates of gastrointestinal side effects and slightly lowered concentrations of HDL cholesterol (good cholesterol), Sibutramine lowered concentrations of HDL,...

Low levels of dopamine in your brain will cause you to eat more food so that you feel good. New research shows that obese animals have half the dopamine levels of normal, and it took much more stimulation to get an adequate release of pleasure.

Effects of Depression and Serotonergic Antidepressants on Bone: Mechanisms and Implications for the Treatment of Depression.

Gut-Microbiota-Brain Axis and Its Effect on Neuropsychiatric Disorders With Suspected Immune Dysregulation.

Biophysicists Create New Model For Protein-cholesterol Interactions In Brain And Muscle Tissue.

Sleep Related Cognitions in Individuals with Symptoms of Insomnia and Depression.

Pause menopause with Rhodiola rosea, a natural selective estrogen receptor modulator.