By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND Something that’s come up in clinic several times in the past few weeks is a remark of: “I’m tired of fighting with my body…” Is this something you’ve said to yourself? Or maybe you have felt like it’s so much work to keep things in balance to stay well, or that you’re constantly battling with hormone imbalance and …
Intermittent fasting, time-restricted feeding and Women’s Hormones
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND There’s been lots of feedback from last week’s blog post about the Ketogenic diet, and for many of you it was followed by questions about intermittent fasting which is certainly another popular dietary trend. Let’s start with a few definitions, because in many cases we’re actually using the wrong terminology: …
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Four reasons to think twice about a ketogenic diet
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND and Dr. Emily FitzGerald, ND It seems that everywhere you look online right now, people are promoting a ketogenic diet: for weight loss, energy, mental clarity and more. Yes, it’s true that most people will lose weight rapidly by cutting carbs, but are the rest of the claims legitimate? And what are the risks? The …
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Reframing PMS: Kindness Week
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND I’m always so excited to speak with people who are on the same wavelength, and also on a mission to reframe negative cultural connotations about our menstrual cycles. I truly believe that tracking your cycles and understanding your own patterns through the month is an incredibly empowering practice. Earlier this week, …
Your Personalized Wellness Program
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND I have been thinking lots about how to take you further with your health and wellness, and how to shift the paradigm where we stop paying attention to our health as soon as the acute symptoms are gone. We keep chasing crisis after crisis. The truth is that symptoms like pain, bloating, mood swings, hormone imbalance and …
The Role of the Gut in Hormone Balance
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND One surprising fact that you may not know is that your hormones and your menstrual cycle are influenced by your gut, specifically the balance of bacteria called the microbiome. In this article we will be speaking specifically about estrogen, although the gut microbiome also impacts thyroid hormones, testosterone, …
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Important Tips for Breast Cancer Prevention
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND I recently interviewed an amazing colleague Dr. Sat Dharam Kaur, creator of the Healthy Breast Program and the Mammalive foundation, with over 20 years focusing on breast cancer awareness. I wanted wanted to share with you some of the really important tips for breast cancer prevention that we discussed during one of my …
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Anxiety: It’s not all in your head
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND Stress and worry are things that most of us deal with from time to time, so we're generally familiar with feelings of anxiety that come from our daily stressors and significant life events. What's less commonly known and explored are the physiological causes of anxiety, or in other words physical changes that trigger an …
My 6 Step Approach to Hormone Balance
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND As a naturopath with a very large focus on hormonal health, I wanted to go through the 6 steps that I look at in every case of hormone balance. This applies to irregular periods, PCOS, heavy or difficult periods, perimenopause swings, difficult periods at puberty, estrogen dominance and more. Your hormonal system is …
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