Category: Hormone

Are Your Adrenals STRESSED OUT?

Many people do not associate poor health with levels of stress but the two correlate. If you are under a lot of stress or are not getting the rest that you need, you may deplete your cortisol levels. Cortisol is just one of the over 50 hormones that our adrenal glands secrete. These two small glands that sit over the kidneys play an important role in our optimal health.

Generally patients who present with adrenal fatigue can often be heard saying, “After______, I was never the same.” The onset of adrenal fatigue often occurs because of financial pressures, infections, emotional stress, smoking, drugs, poor eating habits, sugar and white flour products, unemployment and several other stressors. After experiencing many of these events over a long period of time, the adrenal glands tend to produce less cortisol, the body’s master stress hormone. Cortisol’s main role in the body is to enable us to handle stress and maintain our immune systems. The adrenal gland’s struggle to meet the high demands of cortisol production eventually leads to adrenal fatigue.

Symptoms of adrenal fatigue may include:

  • Chronic fatigue
  • Low blood pressure
  • Low blood sugar
  • Dizziness
  • Headaches
  • Anxiety or panic attacks
  • Depression
  • Low libido
  • Infertility
  • Other debilitating reactions

If you are suffering from Adrenal Fatigue, New Leaf Wellness can help! Let us test your cortisol levels and, if necessary, suggest the appropriate supplements to restore your health and vitality.

 

Turn Back the Hands of Time

There is no escaping the effects of aging on your body, whether it’s a decrease in energy or increase in aches and pains or any other unwanted signs of aging such as excess weight gain or drop in libido and sexual performance. Sermorelin Therapy, offered by New Leaf Wellness, can help with those aging symptoms and many others.

Research has shown that up to 75% of the ailments, aches, pains, limitations, decreased energy levels and loss of vitality associated with aging are preventable! Sermorelin Therapy is the answer!

The pituitary gland, which is located in the brain, is what determines how much human growth hormone is released into the human body. As we age, the pituitary gradually slows down this process, which brings about the common signs of aging – hair loss, decreased strength, and energy and so forth. Growth hormone is just one of a long list of hormones that begin to decrease in the body as we age. Maintaining sufficient levels of growth hormone allows men and women to hold on to signs of youth longer.

The pituitary gland usually secretes enough growth hormone until an individual reaches their late 30s or into their 40s. After that, proper balances in men and women get “out of whack” and only medical treatments can bring these balances back to normal.

Our Providers at New Leaf Wellness offer a variety of hormone therapy methods to supplement an individual’s body with the crucial hormones they’re lacking. One of the methods which we specialize in has essentially become known as a medical miracle.

Sermorelin Growth Hormone-Releasing Hormone (GH-RH) therapy targets the source of hormone production – the pituitary gland – and prompts it to continue naturally releasing sufficient amounts of growth hormone to stave off the negative effects of aging. This treatment essentially turns back the hands of time to transform an aging individual into his or her more youthful self and that is a miracle!

Understand the Role of Testosterone

Testosterone is created by the male body in the testes. The hormone is responsible for maintaining bone density, muscle mass, strength, sex drive, distribution of fat, sperm production and the production of red blood cells. As the male body ages, the production of testosterone slows. After the age of 40, the production of testosterone starts to decline.

Testosterone replacement therapy can help older men deficient in the hormone reduce their risks of heart disease, diabetes, and death, according to new research presented at ENDO 08, the annual meeting of The Endocrine Society.

”The goal of testosterone treatment is to keep the levels within normal range,” says Farid Saad, director of scientific affairs for Bayer Schering Pharma in Berlin. Saad presented two of the studies at the meeting, held in San Francisco. Bayer Schering Pharma makes several testosterone products.

Low levels of testosterone are common with age, Saad says, occurring in about 18% of 70-year-olds. Low levels of testosterone, he says, are associated with the metabolic syndrome — a cluster of risk factors such as abnormal cholesterol and high blood pressure that boost risk of heart disease, stroke, and type 2 diabetes as well as other risks to health.

In the studies, Saad and his colleagues found that testosterone replacement therapy reduced the metabolic syndrome risk factors and did so in a similar way in all the age ranges studied.

By Kathleen Doheny
WebMD Health News