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While suffering from Hashimoto’s thyroiditis or Graves’ Disease, your immune system mistakes molecules in your thyroid gland as foreign, and subsequently, attacks them. This attacks causes inflammation chemicals to be released throughout your body, resulting in symptoms such as fatigue, mental fog, and mood changes. These symptoms can seriously affect your quality of life if not brought to the attention of your doctor. Depression and anxiety are commonly seen amongst sufferers of autoimmune diseases. In addition to having you doctor test and treat any diagnosed thyroid imbalance with thyroid hormones, there are a few other things you can do to...

The hormonal changes of menopause result in changes in metabolism and body composition, and many women find it difficult to lose weight. Additionally, women may experience a wide variety of symptoms such as anxiety, cognitive issues, hot flashes, sleep disturbances, and vaginal dryness. Menopause also can increase the risk of heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol, and metabolic syndrome. Hormonal replacement therapy can help the metabolic changes and can improve the symptoms associated with menopause. Estrogen therapy can also prevent significant bone loss after menopause. However, there are potential side effects including breast cancer and clotting issues that women need to...

Following Dr. Arem’s Protein Boost Diet, but unsure about whether you can eat out? “I don’t discourage you from eating out while you’re following my diet,” says Dr. Arem, “but be aware that it’s easy to relapse into poor eating habits.” Here’s what he recommends.

Getting good quality sleep every night promotes healthy metabolism and is essential for normal functions of the brain, and the cardiovascular system. There are several forms of sleep disorders that can potentially cause serious health problems. The most common sleep disorder that affects both quality of life and metabolism, and even the cardiovascular system, is obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). This disorder has to do with intermittent obstruction of the air flow while sleeping due to a collapse of the tissues surrounding the back of the mouth and throat. The most common symptoms viewed as clues that you may have sleep...