Tag: mental-health
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Diet, Supplements, and Lifestyle for Hypothyroidism
If you have hypothyroidism — or suspect you may — you may have wondered whether what you eat, the supplements you take, or your daily habits could make a real difference. The answer, supported by a growing body of research, is yes. A functional medicine approach to hypothyroidism goes well beyond medication management to address…
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Understanding Thyroid Lab Tests: A Functional Medicine Approach
If you have been told your thyroid is fine because your TSH is normal, but you still feel exhausted, cold, and mentally foggy, you are not alone — and you are not imagining things. TSH is a useful starting point, but it is only one piece of a much larger picture. A functional medicine approach…
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Yoga and Immune Balance
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are central to immune tolerance, and it turns out a daily yoga practice is one way to support them. That finding — along with ideas about cytokines and immune balance — is central to my thinking on lifestyle recommendations. Yoga and the Treg/Th17 Balance in Rheumatoid Arthritis Gautam et al. (2023)…
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Mitochondrial Dysfunction
A Role in Schizophrenia Schizophrenia research has pointed toward mitochondrial dysfunction as a mechanism that could help explain some of the disorder’s underlying biology. Bartal et al. (2023) ran a systematic meta-analysis looking at genes responsible for building mitochondrial ribosomes — the Mitochondrial Ribosomal Proteins Large and Small (MRPL/MRPS) gene families — in people with…
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