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Hormones and Their Effect on the Brain

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Jun 22, 2024

While many factors play a role in cognitive health, hormones affect everything, especially our brains. This post details just how important our hormones are for emotional regulation, mood, and cognition.

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How to Optimize Thyroid Hormone Conversion

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on May 01, 2024

While optimizing thyroid hormone production is obviously necessary, one often missing and critical piece of the conversation is thyroid hormone conversion…converting “the lame duck” to “the big daddy.”

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Glutathione: Ultimate Immune Guardian

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Nov 25, 2023

Glutathione is a powerful immune-boosting, cancer-fighting, autoimmunity-taming antioxidant that many experts are just coming around to fully understanding.

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Gentle Liver Support

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Nov 24, 2023

Giving your liver some gentle love will have a far-reaching and oh-so-positive impact on so many of the body’s systems. And given that so many of these systems work together, it’s truly a beneficial feed-forward cycle.

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What is “Real” Vitamin A?

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Nov 10, 2023

Vitamin A supplementation comes with risks, including toxicity that can cause alopecia. You won’t become toxic from Vitamin A in the diet, but it’s important to understand the difference between carotenoids and retinols, including how to convert into the bioactive form of Vitamin A.

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Tackling Candida: Part 2

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Oct 28, 2023

Despite what you may have heard, cleansing yeast does NOT need to be difficult. And it doesn’t have to take months. Here’s my straightforward protocol for both testing and clearing candida.

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Tackling Candida: Part 1

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Oct 28, 2023

Candida albicans (intestinal yeast) is a fungal organism that’s a normal and expected presence in our digestive environment. But problems arise—sometimes serious problems—when there’s an overpopulation of pathogenic yeast and it becomes opportunistic.

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The Curve That Isn't Flattening

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Aug 19, 2023

My health coaching practice is changing and kind of not changing at the same time. I still have the same goal, which is serving vs. pleasing. Because any practitioner using outdated protocols for solutions to new problems is missing the mark by a country mile.

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Autoimmunity: It's All ONE Disease...

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Aug 18, 2023

Autoimmunity is one disease. When you turn your attention to the root of the imbalance—a hypervigilant, overactive immune system—any and all manifestations of autoimmunity can be addressed.

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The Art of Lymph Support

Posted by Jill McLaughlin on Jul 06, 2023

Our lymphatic system plays a critical role in immune health, is a major factor in our ability to detoxify, and helps to keep us in an anti-inflammatory state. If this weren’t enough, it also impacts the health of our thyroid and hair follicles—it may be one of the factors in reversing alopecia and Hashimoto’s.

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