Add Life To Your Years

Hormones are chemical messengers created by the body to transfer information from one set of cells to another. As hormones are released into the bloodstream, they coordinate and control the various functions of the body to maintain health and stability.

Your thyroid creates and produces hormones that play a role in many different systems throughout your body, specifically your metabolism. Thyroid disease is when your thyroid makes either too much or too little of these important hormones.

Adrenal Fatigue or Adrenal Insufficiency is when the adrenal glands function above or below the necessary levels. Your adrenal glands produce a variety of hormones that are essential to life including cortisol, adrenaline and aldosterone. These hormones help keep your metabolism, blood pressure, immune system and stress response in balance.

Feeling out of sorts? Brain fog isn’t actually a medical condition, but rather a term used to describe the feeling of being mentally sluggish, feeling fuzzy, experiencing memory loss, or lacking focus or mental acuity.

3 Stages of Menopause – Perimenopause is the time leading up to menopause. It describes a time when hormones start to decline, and menstrual cycles become erratic and irregular. Your ovaries are making very little of both estrogen and progesterone.

Men have an ongoing drop in their testosterone levels from their 20s onwards. As the testosterone drops noticeably in the 40s into the 50s, doctors have started referring to this as Andropause.