by Katy Santiago Bowman | October 5th, 2009 | Comments (0)
topic: Health & Wellness | tags: caffeine, cramps, exercise, healthy-eating, hormones, lifestyle habits, menstrual cycle, menstruation, period, PMS, stimulants, stress, toxins, uterus
I consider myself a very “healthy” person. I eat well and walk and stretch every day. I challenge my balance to make sure I still can. I look both ways before crossing the street. But even with this preventative mindset, I still manage to end up wounded every month like clockwork. Don’t worry. It’s nothing my body isn’t designed to handle. And it is a wound borne by half of the people on the planet at about the same frequency.
by Mark Hyman, M.D. | August 25th, 2009 | Comments (0)
topic: Health & Wellness, Healthy Eating | tags: exercise, hormonal problems, hormones, insulin, insulin resistance, insulin response test, metabolism, mood swings, nutrition, stress management, too much insulin

Are your hormones out of balance? Does your life feel like a song played badly out of tune? If so, the problem may have to do with imbalances in your hormones, which are wreaking havoc on your body and mind.
Today I want to focus on the most common — and therefore the most problematic — of hormonal problems in Americans today: too much insulin.