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Stress and Fertility Through a Functional Medicine Lens

Categories: Fertility

Tags: #Fertility, #Functional Medicine, stress

January 28, 2022

By Dr. Cici Carter  When we’re under long term stress, our glucocorticoid hormones increase. When this happens, certain pathways get turned off in order to direct the needed energy that allows us to fight or flee. We’re going to talk about the reproductive pathway. When we’re stressed, this pathway is...

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Functional Medicine and Fertility

Categories: Fertility

Tags: stress, Inflammation, Insulin Resistance, Catabolic Physiology, Hyperinsulinemia

December 7, 2021

By Dr. Cici Carter MD Functional medicine is a practice of medicine that has been around for decades, with aspects of this practice being used for centuries. It’s a whole body systems approach to wellness with restoring the function of our health using the 4 pillars of lifestyle change. Those...

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