by Jennifer Engels, MD | May 19, 2022 | Functional Medicine, Functional Nutrition, In the Media, Information, News
Women dealing with weight gain, anxiety, lack of sleep and other woes related to the stress of the pandemic may not realize that the root cause may be a hormone imbalance. The stress of the COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on everyone, including women, who juggled work...
by Jennifer Engels, MD | May 16, 2022 | Functional Medicine, Information
When it comes to your body and fat, you may think fat is fat, but that’s not true. Our bodies produce two kinds of fat, subcutaneous fat and visceral fat, and there is a substantial difference between the two. Subcutaneous fat – This is the type of fat located...
by Jennifer Engels, MD | May 5, 2022 | Functional Nutrition, Information
First, the bad news. Age-related muscle loss – medically known as sarcopenia – affects us all. After age 30, you begin to lose muscle mass at the rate of about three to eight percent per decade, which equates to losing about five to seven pounds of muscle tissue each...
by Jennifer Engels, MD | Mar 23, 2022 | In the Media, Information, News
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by Jennifer Engels, MD | Mar 23, 2022 | Functional Medicine, Information
For many years, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was used to treat the symptoms of women going through menopause. Unfortunately, a large element of uncertainty was injected into the use of this therapy by the government-funded Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) in 2002....
by Jennifer Engels, MD | Feb 7, 2022 | Information
Before discussing the threat that heart disease poses for women, it would be helpful to point out the enormous amount of work our heart does for each of us. On average, your heart beats 100,000 times every day and more than 35 million times every year. Each and every...
