hormones

Maintaining the health of the urinary tract, or knowing how to manage a problem such as infection, is a popular topic for many women (and men), including those with fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome in particular due to the increased incidence of infection that is part of these conditions. This is also something which increases in frequency with increased age and I'm looking forward to having some progressive, valid, streamlined and FUN information on that here at Lumigrate.  read more »

This question came up recently after I became concerned when one of my long-ago patients who has fibromyalgia was MIA on the Internet, so I called to check in and hope everything was okay and it was a computer malfunction.  Nope, it was a hand malfunction -- seems she had injured her right wrist/hand/forearm in an interesting 'cumulative trauma' way.   read more »

In this podcast I ask more specifics of Allan and Gary related to how they go about hormone testing and prescribing as they have been doing this a while and have it all figured out!  Home test kits for some or laboratory testing for others depending upon finances and insurances.  They share more about how they go about hormone supplementation/replacement and their prescribing nurse practitioner Becca, who I hope will be able to at the very least chime in some here in the forums and underneath this topic in the near future so we 'hear from her' as well.  read more »

"Everyone has a story" and that's no exception for ITC Compounding and Natural Wellness Pharmacy Co-Presidents Gary King, RPh and Allan Jolly, RPh, ND.  It's fantastic timing at Lumigrate's 2-year mark providing progressive health education information to announce this highly regarded and large compounding and wellness pharmacy is adding their expertise to the stream of information at Lumigrate for YOU.   read more »

"Feed me now or I'll kill you!" got a round of laughter from the crowd listening to Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, or 'Dr. T'. It certainly hit home for me.  He broke things down in a very entertaining way, to the "SHINE Protocol" -- sleep, hormones, infections, nutrition, exercise.
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"Feed me now or I'll kill you!" got a round of laughter from the crowd listening to Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, or 'Dr. T'. It certainly hit home for me.  He broke things down in a very entertaining way, to the "SHINE Protocol" -- sleep, hormones, infections, nutrition, exercise.
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Mardy's Note, July 2011 - I was adding new information to this forum/area of Lumigrate and checked to see if the links still work, below as I don't want anyone 'dead ending' and wasting time.  It appears the links to Deirdre's website to listen to this seminar are working and the link to the overall RollinsHealth website Dr Rollins promoted as part of this in January 2011 takes you to a that website, but nothing's been added to it for content and it's six months later SO that's essentially looking like an idea that didn't get off the ground as of yet.  read more »

I was so pleased to have my copy of Deirdre Rawlings' outstanding book Food that Helps Win the Battle Against Fibromyalgia with me recently when my sister said "I need to get out my cookbooks and get some inspiration."   This was brought on because our dad, who is in what I call 'the home stretch of life' was trying to figure out what he might eat differently to get better results for what is 'paining him' and making his joints malfunction.  I believe he had undiagnosed / misdiagnosed  fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue issues basically his who  read more »

 Sleep.........zzzzzzzz!

Sleep is one of the key components for repairing Fibromyalgia/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.  It is so important to address this issue or the patient will never really recover.

I have a questionnaire that I use to cover the topics with my patients at the clinic, but I'll   read more »