How to Achieve Hormone Balance

November 12, 2026

In modern times, most of us are under a lot of stress and being very busy. This puts quite a demand on our bodies to function properly and one of the most common problems today is hormonal imbalance. The hormones in your body are chemical messengers. They send signals to your tissues, glands, organs, and your brain. It is imperative to have proper hormonal levels to be healthy and strong.

One of the best tests to uncover hormonal imbalances is a saliva hormone test. You simply spit into a vial and the vial is analyzed for all the different hormones. The advantage with using saliva is it only gives active hormone levels, which is what the doctor really needs to know. Unfortunately, most hormone testing done by medical practitioners is done by blood. Blood hormone testing is not accurate because it gives overall hormone levels not active hormone levels. For example, if we're measuring your estrogen level, blood will give a number. However, if some of that estrogen is bound to a protein, it is called inactive. Inactive hormones don't work. So the doctor cannot know on an estrogen lab value how much of that is active and how much of it is inactive. As I've said previously, only active hormone levels count. That is why saliva is a superior way to check hormones as it only gives active hormone levels. That's what we need to know. So when a patient comes to me from a medical practitioner, I have to redo the labs because I do not trust that the blood testing was accurate. I've gotten absolutely phenomenal results using saliva as a primary diagnostic tool for hormone imbalance testing.

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The next important procedure to balance out hormones is to initially try to get all the hormone glands to produce their own hormones. This is done with glandular supplements that are not containing hormones, herbs, and special nutritional products. In my 47 years of doing this, I think it is optimal to make your body produce the hormones not to just give them to your body. Most men and women are capable of making their own hormones. They do not have to have drugs to do this. The reason why I don't like using drugs initially is if I give you hormones that are already made your own body production goes down. This means that your sex glands are going to atrophy and degenerate over time. Because they are not required to make hormones. I truly think this is only necessary possibly in elderly patients or if you've had a hysterectomy if you're a woman. I think it is a superior method to give your body the correct glandulars, nutrients, and even herbs that will help your body produce it's own hormonal levels.

Unfortunately, modern times seems to always seek drug therapy right away as medical practitioners are not trained in supplements, herbs, nutritional balance. In my thinking, it is almost backwards. I think that the natural approach should be tried right away and most of the time that will solve the hormonal problems. Drugs should be used only as a last resort. And one other important factor if it is necessary to supply the body with hormones because they cannot be produced naturally, I strongly suggest using only bioidentical hormones. Often my patients come in on hormonal support and they are synthetically made by pharmaceutical companies. These are not the same as your natural hormones and have multiple side effects.

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So I use bioidenticals in my practice which are superior to synthetically made pharmaceutical hormones. I welcome everyone to come into my holistic practice. We will do accurate hormonal testing to determine exactly what is out of balance and supply you with the correct nutrients to regain hormonal balance naturally free of side effects. You will notice multiple symptoms that are disturbing to you immediately going away. Now is the time to achieve great hormonal balance in your body and regain optimal health.

One of the most common hormonal systems to be out of balance are considered the sex hormones. This is true in both men and women. Examples of sex hormones would be estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and DHEA. These are imperative hormones in both men and women to having proper balance. Symptoms such as hot flashes, fatigue, weight gain, swelling, dizziness, erectile dysfunction, osteoporosis, osteopenia, weak immune function, headaches, advanced aging, skin eruptions, acne, digestive complaints, and hair loss are just a few of the many symptoms showing hormonal imbalance. In my holistic practice, I check hormones frequently on my patients and have solved many health problems balancing out the hormonal system.

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Optimize Your Physiology

November 3, 2026

The modern times in which we live bring a lot of stress and demands on our health. There is a trend of more heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune disorders, and just general poor health due to these stressful times. I see a very important factor that contributes to this rising number of illnesses. And that is the topic of my article, Optimizing Physiology . Physiology in medicine means the way your body functions. We can look at this as how all the organs and glands function and how each system in your body functions, such as your cardiovascular system, your immune system, hormone or endocrine system, your nervous system, etc. To be in very good health all of these systems in your body must be working properly and when they are you feel very good. There is an absence of disease and illness. However, what is happening in our world is that the types of tests that medical practitioners run do not really monitor how optimal each system in your body is.

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How Massage and Craniosacral Therapy Can Complement Other Forms of Care

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How Acupuncture May Be Used as Part of a Stress-Management Plan

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