Tracey Yeend - Hormonal, Nutritional & Environmental Health

21/07/2025

21/07/2025

Abstract. While antibiotics are clearly important treatments for infection, antibiotic-induced modulation of the immune system can have detrimental effects

21/07/2025

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20/07/2025

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Have you heard about the new Chronic Pain support Group in Blackwood?

We offer a range of online and in-person support groups tailored for individuals and caregivers navigating chronic pain.

20/07/2025

In short…..
But for so many more reasons….

Vitamins We Need

19/07/2025

This!

The next frontier in medicine isn’t another drug.

It’s a radical shift in how we view the body, the brain, and disease itself.

Depression is often rooted in systemic inflammation, gut dysbiosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, insulin resistance, trauma, or disrupted circadian rhythms. ADHD may be tied to neuroinflammation, poor blood sugar control, or nutritional gaps like low magnesium, zinc, or omega-3s. And heart disease? It’s largely a food-borne illness, driven by a diet of ultra-processed, inflammatory, nutrient-poor calories.

There is no single root cause. But there are root causes.
And they are almost always connected by lifestyle, environment, and systems-level dysfunction.

Medications have their place… But they were never designed to reverse chronic disease. They manage symptoms, often while the underlying dysfunction worsens.

If we want to reverse the chronic disease epidemic, mental and physical, we need to stop asking what drug treats this and start asking why the body lost balance in the first place.

The answer isn’t in the pharmacy… It’s in how we eat, move, sleep, connect, and live.
It’s in our soil, our food system, our communities, our kitchens.

The next revolution in medicine will come not from the lab but from returning to the root.

19/07/2025

17/07/2025

Wise words to start a Friday.
TGIF! 😊

17/07/2025

Vitamin D is technically classified as a steroid hormone, not just a vitamin.

Here’s why:

- Chemical structure: Vitamin D is derived from cholesterol, just like other steroid hormones (e.g. cortisol, estrogen, testosterone).

- How it works: After it's produced in the skin (via sunlight) or ingested, Vitamin D is converted into calcitriol, its active form. Calcitriol then binds to vitamin D receptors (VDRs) inside cells, affecting gene expression—just like hormones do.

- Function: It plays a major hormonal role in regulating calcium, phosphate, immune function, and even cellular growth.

So while it’s called a “vitamin,” Vitamin D acts more like a hormone at the molecular level.

16/07/2025

16/07/2025

Thinking Positive