Women's Health

Planning Pregnancy-or Battling Infertility?

Since personal care products are not regulated by the FDA, you may be surprised that a number of controversial ingredients and known carcinogenics are found in our skin, hair, and body care. This is why it is up to you to decide what you feel at peace with as to what you're putting onto, and therefore into, your body, and potentially passing on to your baby. Many man-made cosmetic chemicals are fat soluble and are not readily broken down by metabolic processes, and because of this, can be stored in body fats and build up to dangerous levels. Learn how your baby(s) are potentially most at risk because during breastfeeding, and further exposure to the pollutants stored in one's body fats may occur.

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Probiotics - Inner Health for Outer Beauty

Supplementing your diet with super strain probiotics will help cleanse the digestive tract and promote a clear complexion. Kassie of Kasia Organics Skin Care suggests introducing Immuno Viva Probiotic + for healthy gut flora, along with a diet rich in living foods, fresh organic fruit and vegetables and plenty water. Learn more about how these nutrients not only nourish and feed the skin, they also cleanse the intestinal tract, and as your gut becomes healthier, so too will your complexion.

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The Falling Age of Puberty in U.S. Girls

The Problem
Girls get their first periods today, on average, a few months earlier than did girls 40 years ago, but they get their breasts one to two years earlier. Over the course of a few decades, the childhoods of U.S. girls have been significantly shortened.
What does this mean for girls today and their health in the future?
The Breast Cancer Fund commissioned ecologist and author Sandra Steingraber to write The Falling Age of Puberty — the first comprehensive review of the literature on the timing of puberty — to help us better understand this phenomenon so we can protect our daughters’ health..

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Your Hair, Your Glory - Thyroid Function for Lovelier Locks.

Our hair is our glory. Sadly however, about 40% of America’s women will experience hair loss. Often this is due to a decrease in the thyroid hormones that control the body's metabolic efficiency. When thyroid function is impaired you're likely to notice a range of symptoms from weight gain or loss, to lethargy and restlessness, and of course degraded hair quality. As a stylist, and through my Functional Medicine research into thyroid conditions, I routinely recommend clients experiencing the unexplained onset of dry, coarse or easy tangled hair to have their thyroid hormone levels checked.

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MOTHERS, Prevent Your Daughters From Getting Breast Cancer

A novel by Sherrill Sellman

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Cosmetics and Breast Cancer

The American Cancer Society estimated that more than 211,000 women would develop invasive breast cancer last year (the latest available statistics). Even a small percentage of men, while genetically at low risk for the disease, develop it. Science, however, has yet to identify a clear and distinct cause.

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