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\n\t\tThe Client\n\t<\/h2>\n

\n\t\tWhen did you last feel great ?\u00a0\n\t<\/h2>\n\t

Have you accepted that it is ok to not feel the best you can feel? Many people have adapted and accepted to live this way. Often everything else becomes a priority and our health is at the bottom of this list.\u00a0 Looking after your health is a sign of self-respect.<\/p>\n

Make your health a priority.<\/p>\n

You are at the very heart of your own health. You are the person who can make the changes. You are the person who can decide today I will start a new approach to my health.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"tired\n\t

Thyroid health<\/strong> is vital for regulating many processes in the body. Metabolism, temperature, growth & development and energy are just a few.<\/p>\n

The thyroid is a very sensitive gland and often the signs and symptoms of reduced thyroid health are confused with many other symptoms.<\/p>\n

A good place to start with understanding your own thyroid health is to do a full thyroid panel test. This will look at all the thyroid hormone levels, reverse T3 and antibody status. Conventional physicians usually don’t run antibody test as it won’t change conventional thyroid treatment. Functional medicine practitioners usually do run antibody tests so that they can address the underlying issues and autoimmunity.<\/p>\n

Thyroid health can be supported with nutritional support.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Low\n\t

Cortisol<\/strong> has a vital important role in our daily survival but our modern day lifestyle has made this important hormone move from friend to foe. \u00a0How often have we heard the word “stress’ used when talking about our health and wellbeing. One crucial misunderstanding is our perception of stress. Stress is very personal to each individual.<\/p>\n

Our brain is wired to only interpret any stress response as a threat. A stress response triggers our adrenals to release cortisol. This prepares our body for a physical attack. When our body is in fight and flight mode we are engaging the sympathetic nervous system. Which means our para-sympathetic nervous system is switched off, this system engages our rest, digest and reproduction function.<\/p>\n

The systems can’t work in unison, one needs to be switched on while the other is then switched off. Cortisol has a role in health, constantly raised cortisol levels do not. It is at this point that immunity becomes compromised and health deteriorates.<\/p>\n

To better understand how your body is managing cortisol I would recommend the Dried Urine Test Comprehensive Hormone (DUTCH) as this looks at both urine metabolites and salivary cortisol, there is also an option to include\u00a0 your cortisol awakening response (CAR).<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\"Low\n\t

Blood sugar dysregulation<\/strong> is more common than we realise. Cravings, irritability, feeling hungry and ‘hangry’ between meals are all common signs that your blood sugar may be imbalanced.<\/p>\n

Changing your eating habits and making better choices can help to support glucose balance. The importance of regulating your glucose levels is to avoid insulin resistance which is often the first stage of type II diabetes.<\/p>\n

Our cells need a fuel source to function optimally, this source being glucose. The concern is how we get the glucose into the cell. When insulin resistance is present the ability for glucose to enter the cell is compromised. Without an adequate fuel source our brain interprets this as a need for food, releasing our hunger hormone. Low glucose levels triggers cortisol levels to rise and so we start a trigger of events.<\/p>\n

To better understand how your body is managing glucose I would recommend a HBA1C test. This test provides you with a 120 day snapshot of your red blood cells.<\/p>\n

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Menopause<\/strong> can be a horrendous time for some women and an absolute breeze for others. Most women become menopausal between the ages of 45 and 54 years.\u00a0 As we are all individuals, there is no single approach to navigating a way through this stage of life.<\/p>\n

During the reproductive years, the female body has constant exposure to oestrogen. One of the main functions of oestrogen is to build tissue.\u00a0 Oestrogen initiates tissue building within the female body for creating a new life. Oestrogen builds breast tissue and works hard every month to replace and build new tissue in the uterus. The longer a woman is exposed to oestrogen the greater her risk of cancer. The reproductive years are typically between the ages of 12 years and 55 years, extended beyond these years and again the risk is greater.<\/p>\n

Many woman will look to use hormone therapy replacement\u00a0 (HRT) during menopause, as this can provide much needed relief of symptoms.\u00a0 HRT will replace the natural hormones that are starting to deplete naturally. Bio-Identical hormone therapy (BHRT) is another option for women to consider and works on a similar principal as HRT. Their main attraction is that the hormone preparations are made from plant sources that are similar or identical to human hormones.<\/p>\n

Menopausal symptoms can be supported with nutritional and lifestyle changes, after all it is a time when the body should be nourished and replenished for all the work it has done during the reproductive years.<\/p>\n

To better understand how your body is managing your hormones I would recommend two tests.<\/p>\n