Take Charge of Your Health

Take Charge Of Your Health: Hormones, not calories

The true drivers of appetite, weight and mood. This was the topic that Corinne Furnari explored while she interacted with the audience as her cohost.

Take Charge of Your Health Corinne and Carol Bring Up Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis is a serious loss of healthy bone turnover.  Conventional medicine offerings focuses on bisphosphonate drugs which stops bone remodeling.  This looks good on a bone density test but retains poor quality bone.  Bisphosphonate drugs even interfere with cholesterol production just as statin drugs to. 

Take Charge of Your Health: Corinne and Carol Discuss Black Seed Oil, DGL and More

We wanted to discuss some pearls like vitamin C babies, black seed oil benefits, licorice and DGL and other remedies that might come up.  We discussed erectile dysfunction as the topic came up - included increasing circulation, herbal remedies that improved testosterone and testosterone itself.

Take Charge of your Health: The importance of maintaining physical strength.

This week Corinne was speaking with Seth Greiner, physical therapist. The discussion was about the importance of  maintaining physical strength. 
Strength is the foundation of physical function. It underpins our ability to perform everyday tasks, from carrying groceries to getting up from a chair. As we age, we naturally lose strength, which can lead to decreased independence, increased risk of falls and injuries, and a decline in overall quality of life. Even with conditions like Parkinson's, targeted strength training can improve balance, despite muscle-building challenges. Getting stronger, even in later years, can help maintain or regain the ability to do the things we enjoy, improve bone density, enhance balance (in many cases), and increase resilience against age-related physical decline.

Take Charge Of Your Health: The Benefits of Motion/Exercise.

If you want to live a long, healthy life, there’s one truth you can’t escape: 
your body needs to move. 
Exercise isn’t just about shedding pounds or flexing in the mirror—it’s a scientifically proven weapon against the ravages of aging. From your heart to your brain, regular physical activity can rewind the clock on many of aging’s harmful effects. And yet, despite mountains of evidence, it remains one of the most neglected tools in our health and medical arsenal. Why?

Take Charge of Your Health: Corinne and Carol Dive into the Mystery of Endometriosis

No one really knows what gets endometriosis started.   The estrogen sensitive and estrogen producing plaques can show up virtually everywhere in the body and cycle with the ovarian cycle creating pain and inflammation.  We discuss the nature of endometriosis and some ideas for solutions and relief.

Take Charge of Your Health Corinne and Carol Discuss the "Fuzzy" Concept of Brain Fog

Brain fog is a very common complaint that turns out to have many causes.   We start to cover some of the underlying circumstances that affect brain acuity and the distress that it creates in one's life.

Take Charge of Your Health: Carol and Corinne Review the Effect of Progesterone in Men

There are lots of studies around progesterone particularly the surge in production after ovulation and critical for pregnancy.  However men made progesterone too in the testes, adrenal glands, brain, nerve cells, and mast cells. Normal serum levels for men are the same as the follicular phase in women. Sadly, the research in men is paltry and conventional medicine likes to treat with finasteride, a non bioidentical molecular attempting to mimic progesterone.
 

Take Charge of Your Health. Carol and Corrine Dig into Insulin

insulin and glucose dysregulation is pervasive.   High insulin affects other hormones such as estrogen, testosterone, progesterone and thyroid.   Learn about the interrelationships and the keys to managing insulin.
 
 

Take Charge of Your Health Corinne and Carol Take a Look At Insulin Resistance

Insulin resistance is rampant.  There are times at puberty and during pregnancy and during times of famine that high levels of insulin can be needed.  But for most of us, due to the poor quality of our diets and food choices, insulin and glucose become imbalances and leads to health problems body-wide.