Women's health includes balancing hormones as well as the nervous system to allow your body to feel its most balanced. Areas of women's health include:
Women's health is influenced by various factors like our biology, thoughts, and environment. Imbalances can present in different ways, including:
I love using the DUTCH Complete test for women's health. This test will test all of your sex hormones, cortisol, and your organic acids.
Other tests to consider are food sensitivity testing, a stool test, and thyroid testing.
Women's Health is treated by looking at the WHOLE system. First we balance the body chemistry with the appropriate foods that fit your constitution (I love using Chinese medicine principles for this). We also can use gut microbiome testing if needed to see if there are imbalances in your gut flora (parasites, fungi, yeast, worms). A balanced gut flora directly affects your mood and hormones. Just these simple changes alone can make a HUGE impact in the case.
It is important to address liver health, the main organ for regulating and balancing our hormones and stress. I also want to make sure the detoxification pathways are working optimally so byproducts can be excreted safely.
Next, I use herbs and supplements to help balance your cortisol and stress response. By calming your nervous system, we can allow you to be calmer and more hormonally balanced, which will also affect mood swings, anxiety and depression. Other modalities such as acupuncture and homeopathy help the body reboot its nervous system and allow for deep relaxation as well as organ system balance.
We also address your learned patterns to stress by learning how to rewire your stress response in your body using hypnotherapy, breathing, and cognitive restructuring.
The Comprehensive Initial Visit is where we take the time to understand your full picture and build a plan that actually fits your body.
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