The Unconventional Dietitian Blog
Personal stories and tips about food, health and wellness.
Tips to Rebalance Estrogen
Estrogen is one of two female sex hormones made primarily in the ovaries. The other female sex hormone is called progesterone. These two hormones are responsible for healthy growth of the female body as well as secondary sex characteristics, such as breasts, body...
Understanding the Way Adaptogens Balance Stress
Life is stressful - it can be a lot to handle. Stress is one of the primary causes of poor health. To understand just how detrimental stress can be to your health, you first need a basic understanding of how the body’s normal stress response works. The use of...
cauliflower rice done right
Confessions of a dietitian...I don't really like cauliflower. Many people think that if you are a dietitian you must like everything vegetabley and not like French fries and cookies. That's not necessarily true. While I do like vegetables, cauliflower is not high on...
The Role of Food in Estrogen Dominance
Estrogen is usually only associated with women, but estrogen is present in both women and men – just in different quantities. In women, the ovaries are the main producer of estrogen during the reproductive years. After menopause estrogen is produced by the adrenal...
How the Thyroid & Insulin Work Together
Your body has a symphony of hormones that work together to keep you sane and functioning at your best. This post will focus on how the thyroid and insulin levels work together to keep the melody of your hormones rockin'. A tiny butter-fly shaped gland in your neck has...
The Relationship Between Melatonin and Insulin
Hormones are responsible for regulating your body and all its various functions – metabolism, sleep, growth, and reproduction, to name a few. No single hormone works in isolation. Your hormones interact with each other to regulate your internal environment and...
Use Better (and More) Sleep to Help Maintain a Balanced Diet
Everything you put in your body affects your overall health. But, when you’re working to maintain a well-balanced diet, more than the food you eat influences your success. Sleep, that biological necessity none of us can do without, plays a large role in your appetite...
The Way Cortisol Impacts Insulin
“Stressed” is “desserts” spelled backwards. The astonishing irony is not lost here. Work, finances, health, relationships, are just a few of the many stressors that tend to pile up on our already full plates. As counterintuitive as it may sound, stress is an essential...
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