Sweat It Out
Posted by Healthful Elements Staff
No, this isn’t a post about exercise. It’s about deodorant. I don’t wear any. Want to know why?
No More Whack-a-Mole
Posted by Healthful Elements Staff
I used to suffer from digestive issues, weight gain and weight loss resistance, shingles, infertility, and more. Here’s how I changed my game from whack-a-mole to skee ball and changed my outcomes.
Managing PCOS
Posted by Jill McLaughlin (Grunewald) on May 13, 2015
Here are 31 considerations and suggestions (nutritional, lifestyle, supplemental) for helping you manage PCOS.
The Best Meat and Eggs
Posted by Jill McLaughlin (Grunewald) on Mar 03, 2015
“How do I find the best animal products? What questions should I be asking?” Farmer Jack McCann answers these questions and mentions the implications for your endocrine/hormonal system, including thyroid and reproductive.
Easing Into Menopause
Posted by Jill McLaughlin (Grunewald) on Feb 24, 2015
Here are 28 misconceptions, considerations, and suggestions for helping you ease into peri/menopause. (It’s never too early to start thinking about it.)
Estrogen and Your Thyroid
Posted by Jill McLaughlin (Grunewald) on Jan 10, 2013
Many women today have estrogen dominance – a condition where estrogen is high in relation to progesterone. It doesn’t necessarily mean that estrogen is elevated (although most of the time it is) – it means that there is not enough progesterone production to oppose estrogen and keep it in check. As if hypothyroidism wasn’t enough of an epidemic, estrogen dominance is epidemic as well and can have some serious implications for thyroid function. Kind of a double whammy.
A Chemical Coat of Armor? Choosing Safe Sunscreen and Bug Spray
Posted by Jill McLaughlin (Grunewald) on Apr 04, 2012
Unsafe chemicals in our skincare products, including sunscreen, insect repellant and cosmetics have been getting much recent attention, for good reason. What products are safe and which ones carry a toxic load?
Kicking the Can - The Dangers of BPA
Posted by Jill McLaughlin (Grunewald) on Oct 04, 2011
BPA — found in baby bottles and sippy cups, microwave ovenware, stain-resistant food storage containers, eating utensils, hard-plastic drinking bottles, five-gallon water jugs, and plastic wraps, to name just a few — easily leaches into food and liquids, and hundreds of studies have linked it to harmful endocrine-disrupting effects, causing reproductive, developmental, behavioral, and neurological harm.
