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Have you ever needed to drop weight quickly? Maybe you had a wedding coming up and needed to fit into a dress so you fasted for a week or two to shed the pounds? Or you had a beach vacation around the corner so you engaged in a hypo-caloric diet to get a slimmer belly? Many people have been in this situation and thought that fasting was the way to get the weight off fast. However, we have all heard experts say fasting is not the way to lose weight. But why? Fasting makes your body feel as if you are...

Levothyroxine treatment alone may not resolve symptoms of hypothyroidism and the solution may be adding T3 medication to the treatment. Many people who continue to experience symptoms of low thyroid even though their blood tests have become normal while on T4 medication alone. One study looked at 397 hypothyroid individuals who were treated with T4 only and compared them to 397 people with normal thyroid function. The hypothyroid individuals reported more general health symptoms as well as thyroid-specific symptoms than those with normal thyroid function. Another study showed that cognitive testing scores and the overall well-being of hypothyroid individuals on T4 only were worse...

It is no secret that most people are deprived of restful sleep. Work hours, a busy schedule, or an inability to fall asleep can all play a role in people not getting the right amount of sleep for the body to recover for the next day. Sleep deprivation, even minimal, can contribute to decreased alertness and performance, obesity, diabetes, heart disease, vulnerability to infection, depression, and anxiety. In a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, sleep loss was found to be a stressor that increased physiological stress perception. Sleep deprivation results in increased morning and...

How much body fat you have is regulated by a complex and powerful hormonal system that ensures you don’t lose energy stores for survival purposes and that you don’t store excessive amounts of fat. These hormones interact with each other and the hypothalamus, the master of the brain that regulates appetite, food choices, emotions, and your biological clock. In normal circumstances, your hormonal system works at keeping your body fat mass pretty constant within a reasonable “normal” range. In addition to regulating appetite and your caloric intake, these hormones regulate how much fat you will burn on a regular basis...