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It is not about eating less and exercising more. You better believe it. You can count calories and try to sweat it off till the cows come home, but if your cortisol is too high or your thyroid is sluggish, that belly is there to stay. After seeing thousands of patients, I can say that almost anyone who struggles with weight loss also struggles with a hormone imbalance. You will be amazed when you see how easy weight loss becomes once hormones are in harmony. Let’s call it Hormone Harmony! It is not you, it’s them! High Cortisol Cortisol is known as the stress hormone. It is released by the adrenal glands when you experience emotional, mental, or physical stress. […]

Growth Hormone (GH) GH was in charge of making you taller as a child. As an adult, it does lots of other things. It develops muscle mass, participates in protein synthesis, cellular growth, and also fat breakdown. GH is a hormone that builds things and breaks things down. When everything’s in balance, GH works harmoniously with your hormones cortisol and adrenaline to build muscle and burn fat. But when good hormones like GH go bad and become unruly or your body stops making enough, fat increases, muscle breaks down, energy decreases, and life, in general, becomes miserable. GH-deficiency symptoms include: Increased abdominal fat Reduced lean body mass Increased insulin resistance, leading to type 2 diabetes Hypertension (high blood pressure) High […]