We recently covered food allergies and the dietary choices that make your hormones the happiest. We’re going to round out our nutritional plan by discussing two important concepts, blood sugar stability, and what it means to choose “high quality” foods. Making dietary choices that stabilize your blood sugar is one of the most important things you can do for your health.
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Why is one person tall and skinny and another short and stout? How can someone eat a 2000 calorie meal and not gain a pound, while another struggles to keep weight off eating a mere 1000 calories a day? When we gain weight, why do some of us pack it on right over that unattainable six-pack, and others only seem to gain from the hips down?
We all have unique bodies. And much of their individuality is determined by how our different hormone-producing glands do their thing. Today, we’re going to talk about that, and how you can tailor your diet to help your glands along, allowing you to look and feel better.
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Is your head spinning yet? With all the information flying around about food – high or low carb, high or low fat, pro or anti carcinogenic, pro or anti inflammatory, synthetic or natural, organic, grass-fed, pesticide free, GMO – how do you make sense of it all? No doubt, dietary information can be dizzying.
Finding a good approach to your diet works best by following some general, baseline principles. If we keep these in mind, wading through the weeds of health information to find the truly good stuff becomes much easier.
There are four areas I typically cover when getting a patient on the right dietary track: Food Allergies, Glandular Dominance, Blood Sugar Stability, and Food Quality. We’ll start with food allergies, and cover the rest in upcoming articles.
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Last time we talked about how we get to sleep, and the two hormones we must manage: cortisol and serotonin. In a nutshell, stress raises our cortisol levels, and also lowers our serotonin levels.
Low serotonin and good, restful sleep generally don’t go together. So what can we do? Address the stress! If we can eliminate or control the things that elevate cortisol, the serotonin in our brain will do its job, resulting in peaceful slumber.
The problem is that most people think stress is one dimensional. Wrapping your head around the idea of psychological stress is pretty easy. Our language is full of clues: being “stressed out” or a “stress ball” are terms people use to refer to someone under a lot of mental or emotional strain.
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Why can’t you sleep? Sleepless nights are a common problem and the causes are numerous. Aside from the obvious causes of sleeplessness — a noisy environment, being sick, congested, or otherwise uncomfortable — there are many people out there who have trouble sleeping and can’t nail down what’s disturbing their rest.
I’ll offer a common explanation for why many people have trouble sleeping. It’s not the only explanation by any means, but I see it in patients frequently enough that it warrants special attention.
Part of the problem is what we accept as “normal”. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard people say something like, “Oh yes, I sleep fine. I get up two or three times a night, but it’s no big deal.” Getting up two or three times a night is not normal. It may be common, but it is definitely not normal.
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