Your adrenal glands are each no bigger than a walnut and weigh less than a grape, yet are responsible for one of the most important functions in your body: managing stress. When you have adrenal fatigue your entire body feels it and suffers from extreme exhaustion as...
Remember the tough cases we discussed last week? You remember, the ones who’ve: They’ve gone gluten free – or so they say. Gave up coffee They’re drinking green drinks almost every day They exercise, meditate and get out doors, yet still they struggle with excess...
When I say hormone balance, you, like most people, probably start thinking about menopause, PMS, loss of libido, and other female issues. Yet there is so much more, and often these "female" hormone imbalances are caused by imbalances in what I call the "survival...
As health coaches, we all know and teach our clients about the dangers of eating processed foods and sugar. Processed foods stress the immune system, paralyze macrophages, the "PAC Men" of the immune system and leave the body with defenses down for several hours....
Background of these articles: Health and Wellness Coaches are springing up all over the place. And rightly so. As a society, we need to learn to eat, live, move, and breathe in ways that support vibrant health, rather than drain it. Welcome to "Dr Ritamarie's...
Iodine is an essential mineral. It has a number of essential functions in your body, including thyroid balance. Here in the west, we are suffering from an epidemic of thyroid deficiency. Dr. David Brownstein has written an entire book about iodine. It’s called...
As part of my SHINE webinar series, I talk about the intimate connection between your everyday hormones (insulin, thyroid and adrenal) and your “fun” hormones (estrogen, testosterone and progesterone). We discussed how too much stress uses up the building blocks of...