Take Charge of Your Health

 Dr. Chris Shade describes the role of the hormone AMPK and it's rapid effect to achieve ketosis while doing diet modifications. Progesterone is an amazing hormone with multiple functions and applications. Learn what you can do.

 Carol and Corinne take a deeper dive into the complex subject of low thyroid activity. We discuss what lab testing does and does not show and what tests to ask for

 It's confusing. Low thyroid symptoms may be present and causing significant quality of life issue but often testing is incomplete or lacks the sensitivity to confirm. With practitioners spending less and less time with physical exams and more time with computer templates, hypothyroid patients have a hard time finding any relief.

Urinary incontinent products are the top sellers in the pharmacies. It is the biggest driver to entering a nursing hormone facility. However, you can spot it early and take steps to avoid this outcome.

Carol discusses the classes of drugs involved in treating hypertension, how they work and what natural substances do the same thing. Corinne adds herbs that have potential for blood pressure management.Corinnehealth.com Thewellnessbydesignproject.com

We are told that hypertension needs to be treated with drugs for a lifetime. Is that really true? Most of the hypertensive drugs are designed to block or mitigate adrenaline. Can we do that naturally?

Cholesterol builds our cells, creates all of our sex and adrenal hormones, vitamin D, and bile for digestions. Levels less that 160 are associated with increases in all cause mortality. Extremely low levels occur in autism and in AIDS. We discuss what we can do to restore cholesterol levels and what a very high cholesterol might mean.

 Carol and Corinne review a podcast interview with Dr. Peter Atilla and Dr. Andrew Huberman from May 2022. This podcast has well over a million views, lots of praise in the comments and cited by other social media sites. The trouble is that it contains misinformation. For example, Dr. Atilla proclaims that there is a progesterone containing IUD - false. The IUD contains levonorgestrel. The drug does not move from the uterus - also false. The drug continuously goes into the blood stream and affects the whole body. We spend the whole hour unweaving the web.

Dr. Ellen Cutler joins Corinne and Carol to show us how supplemental digestive enzymes can help with candida, food sensitivities, autoimmune issues, weakened immune systems, long covid and more.

 Carol and Corinne discuss what can be done to naturally bring up testosterone levels in both men and women. These tips came from a lecture by Dr. William Clearfield