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09/24/2022

Deepak Chopra wrote about the flip side of doubt and uncertainty. He says that if there is a chance that something could fail, that it automatically means there is a chance it could succeed as well.

Nature is on your side. The future holds infinite possibility. Learn to receive this nature and future of infinite possibility.

Fall is the season of letting go of the past. It is very hard for Wood types (people with Liver and Gall Bladder TCM patterns) and easier for Metal types (Lung and Colon TCM patterns).

Acupuncture and herbal medicine can help if you are having trouble letting go of the past and embracing a new story for your life.

07/05/2022

We can give birth to babies, ideas, and nations. Many labored to give birth to our free country the USA. I hope you can find some gratitude for living in this country, and contribute to it’s ongoing development. It’s a fairly young country but working together through the generations, we can raise this nation up to fulfill its true potential in freedom, sovereignty, and independence.

05/05/2022

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02/23/2022

Your body is part of who you are. It is not the enemy. It does not hate you. Love your body, listen to its needs, let symptoms speak to you as clues for guidance. These are the secrets of Chinese medicine. They can change your life. I can help. Start with loving yourself. If you cannot, I can help with that, too. 🤗

02/02/2022

2022 denotes the year of the Yang Water Tiger. Here’s what it means:

TIGER
Tiger signals a need to accomplish and work, so this year is an auspicious time to act on one’s goals that came out of the visions from the previous years of the Ox 2021 and Rat 2020. Personality traits include being careful, powerful, direct, and attractive.

WATER
The nature of water is to flow and receive what comes to it—including changes.

It provides us with great endurance and will support the active, pioneering energy of 2022.

Water will absorb and resonate, tending to hold a lot of emotion—particularly Fear which can overwhelm, creating inaction. Be sure to ground yourself, so Water is contained in Earth like a pond.

Water is traditionally associated with the color black, thus 2022 is called a Black Tiger year.

YANG
Yang is about moving forward, decision and action. This year is a time to begin manifesting what you would like to happen over the next 10 years. Yang energy will multiply Tiger energy.

For me, Year of the Black Tiger means expanding my love for helping change lives, beyond medicine 👩‍⚕️🩺to real estate! 🏠

Follow me as I sharpen an old skill to help families find their dream homes!

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Summarized from CT Holman at TCM Academy online. Read more in his article 2022 The Yang Water Tiger Predictions.

01/22/2022

Resilience, not absence of fear, is the birthplace of living courageously.

The ability to bounce back from life’s slings and arrows is essential to living the life you were meant to live.

We cannot change what has happened to you, but we can change how it has impacted you.

What would you do with your life if you were tapped in to unlimited healing?

Chances are, you have not yet begun to tap your resources for healing.

Maybe it’s time to start exploring more of the options available to you?

06/30/2021

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06/29/2021

Is this the secret to a healthy life? This Tibetan proverb may be!

04/21/2021

Attention diet and exercise ladies! If you are overweight, underweight, or changing weight rapidly—AND having hormone issues—this post is for YOU!

Hormone levels are like a dashboard reading on your health. You wouldn’t start out on a long road trip with no gas, and your body doesn’t want to travel down the reproductive road without enough fuel.

How does your body know you have enough fuel? That it  can afford to loose blood in a monthly period? That it can fuel your body PLUS another inside you?

LEPTIN
Your body produces a signaling molecule which tells your brain when there is enough fuel. That signaling hormone is called leptin.

HUNGER & HORMONES
You may know leptin as the hormone that controls hunger. But leptin’s signaling action for hormones and fertility is completely separate from the way that it controls appetite and metabolism.

BALANCED
Leptin is secreted by your adipose (fat) tissue. When you have plenty of fat tissue, leptin levels are high, hunger is satisfied, and the body is clear to be fertile.

If leptin does NOT get to the brain, you feel hungry no matter what you eat, and you may have problems with periods or pregnancy.

What prevents leptin from signaling your brain?

IMBALANCED
The 3 primary reasons leptin is not signaling your brain to make hormones are
👉Too little adipose tissue
👉Too much adipose tissue
👉Sudden changes affecting adipose tissue

LEPTIN & FERTILITY
Can high or low leptin affect your ovaries? Yes!  Leptin signals the ovaries. Additionally, leptin IN the ovarian follicles needs to be at the right amount. Too high of leptin levels in the follicles is linked to decreased fertility.

Leptin signals the hypothalamus in the brain, which signals the pituitary to make FSH and LH. As one study states, “Serum leptin levels are a critical link between sufficient nutrition and the function of the hypothalamic–pituitary–gonadal (HPG) axis.”

TEST, DON’T GUESS
If you are unsure whether low leptin (or high leptin insensitivity)  is causing hormone or fertility problems, you can get a simple, inexpensive blood test done to check your leptin levels.

Work with a qualified healthcare professional.

04/18/2021

I’d like to tell you a little secret about how much zinc I take.

It averages 150 mg daily!

Well above the 5 mg in those lozenges!

It’s because I eat NUTRIENT DENSE foods.

Zinc is HUGELY beneficial to overall vitality and fertility. It helps many systems in your body. I am healing leaky gut, and maintaining hormone levels of a 30 year old (at age 51) by ovulating the last of my nonviable egg reserves to get progesterone.

Fertility is important at ALL ages, and even if you do NOT want a baby. So . . .

Foods loaded with zinc include seafood, red meat, poultry, whole grains, and fortified cereals. Oysters are the food that contains the highest amount of zinc.

But wait!

40 mg per day for adults is the upper intake level (UL) for zinc set by health authorities. And just a 3-oz serving of oysters contains a whopping 493% of the daily value!

So can you eat too much?

Not really. There are NO reported cases of zinc poisoning from naturally occurring zinc in food . . . But you CAN get zinc poisoning from dietary supplements!

Taking zinc lozenges every 2 hours to fight a cold is one example. Doses greater than 220 mg/day or 300 mg for 6 weeks in a treatment protocol, can cause zinc overdose.

What happens if you take too much zinc?

With acute ingestion of high doses of zinc, gastrointestinal symptoms are likely.

Vomiting
stomach pain
diarrhea
intestinal bleeding
metallic taste
flu-like symptoms, such as fever, chills, cough, headache and fatigue

Long term overdosing of zinc can cause
Iron deficient anemia (low red blood cells)
Neutropenia (low white blood cells)
Reduced immunity
Lower T-cell function
lower your “good” HDL cholesterol levels

When looking for nutritional support for epic health or optimizing fertility, you cannot go wrong with food sources like you can too much from supplements.

Now, do you want those oysters fresh, smoked, or Rockefeller?

RESOURCES
National Institutes for Health Zinc Fact Sheet for Healthcare Professionals
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04/13/2021

Sleep is the drumbeat of your hormonal symphony.

Your hormones need to rise and fall at the right levels and the right time like an orchestra playing a complicated sonata. The conductor of this orchestra is GnRH with melatonin in the percussion section helping with the tempo; LH and FSH are important soloists, coming in at just the right time.

Melatonin regulates gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH), one of the key players in your reproductive hormones. GnRH, in turn, is in control of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicular stimulating hormone (FSH), both of which are vital to ovulation.

Women with PCOS who struggled with fertility participated in a six-month trial with supplemental melatonin. The results showed that melatonin regulated the reproductive hormones (FSH, anti-Müllerian, and androgens) and restored the menstrual cycle for many of the women.
- PMID: 28558523

A study of over one hundred women undergoing IVF found that 3 mg of melatonin each night increased fertilization rates by 30%.
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A large IVF trial in women with PCOS found that a combination of melatonin and myo-inositol increased in-vitro fertilization rates.
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Supplemental melatonin is available in timed-release capsules ranging from 300 mcg to 5 mg.  While most of the trials for fertility used doses of 3 mg/night, people tolerate melatonin supplements differently. Some report side effects of headaches, slight nausea, or grogginess after taking too much melatonin. This may be something that you want to try on a weekend, and you may need to try several different doses to find the right fit for your body. Work with a qualified healthcare provider.

04/09/2021

Friday Vibes! The Fire Element needs celebration and joy energy. It fuels the functions of brain activity, heart and circulation, sleep, and hormone communication from the brain to the adrenals and reproductive glands.

What can you take joy in this weekend to fuel your Fire?

I will be gardening with my fiancé Robert, cooking, checking out the gun show at the state fairgrounds, and getting a farm fresh delivery from .

Happy weekend!

04/04/2021

Did you know Easter celebrates New Life with fabulous fertility foods?

Resurrecting your vitality to create new life was an ancient springtime holiday tradition.

It was later adapted to celebrate the Christian holiday of Resurrection Sunday.

Today’s Easter foods are still eggs, lamb, and carrots for the Easter Bunny!

🐣Eggs are nutrient dense fertility foods. They are a rich source of choline, recently touted as relevant as folic acid when it comes to healthy pregnancy.

🐑 Lamb is a powerful Yang food.
🐖 Ham is a powerful Yin food.
☯️ You need both Yin and Yang to make life-giving Qi.

🥕Carrots are loaded with zinc, which makes for a high octane sort of s***m production! Zinc is good for egg maturation and thyroid demands of pregnancy, so mamas should eat them too!

🐰While rabbits are a fertility symbol for new life, nothing makes me feel as renewed as an alignment with ☀️Christ Consciouness☀️.

I hope you have something to align your hearts, minds, and bodies with that gives you health, vitality, and renewal.

Love,
Dr Amy

03/13/2021

Fitness isn’t always a sign of health. How do you know if being fit means being healthy?

Look for any of the following warning signs that your fitness might be masking an underlying health problem you can fix:

Inflammation
Sleep problems
Fatigue
Subfertility
Infertility
Hormone imbalance
Blood sugar dysregulation
Mood swings
Brain fog
Environmental toxins
Autoimmune development
Leaky gut
Low s*x drive
Digestive issues

Hormones play a key role in these conditions—-not just s*x hormones, but hormones made by your adrenals, kidneys, pancreas, thyroid, brain, and even your fat tissue.

Hormone imbalance can help explain why fit people are struck down with cancers, infertility, corona virus, and other things we least expect.

I like to do a full hormone panel work up each year ($300) with my wellness check up—not just for patients, but for ME! It helps me control autoimmune conditions, stress, and perimenopause—-things most people never would guess I manage because I look fit.

Catching an imbalance early is the key to quick turnaround. . . And maintaining optimal health!

03/04/2021

Can you name half a dozen sources of estrogen? If you started with testosterone, you are a smart cookie!

Typically women make more estrogen than men, but men and women alike are bombarded with estrogens, phytoestrogens, and xenoestrogens. These come from our environment, food, water, plastics, pills, and more. Even if you are on prescribed safe doses of estrogen, our bodies need to clear it out eventually so it does not build up over time.

How do we clear it out? Through three elimination pathways. You must keep these pathways working well to prevent estrogen to building up over time and altering our bodies (and sometimes our emotions).

Estrogen breakdown starts in the liver with Phase 1 and Phase 2 detox pathways. If your liver, diet, and genes are in good shape, there should be little concern.

Phase three is more of a concern. Phase three takes the estrogen metabolite out of the liver cell, into the bile and through the gall bladder (if you still have one!) and then dumps it into your intestines to be carried out in the stool.

If you have constipation, gut dysbiosis (an imbalance of microorganisms) or health problems that worsen elimination (low thyroid function, leaky gut, etc), then you might be reabsorbing the estrogen.

How? Some microorganisms in the gut actually eat the enzyme keeping the estrogen broken apart . . . And put the estrogen back together again to be reabsorbed.

So is it dangerous? That depends. Estrogen breaks down into 3 main metabolites. One is harmless, one can remain active (for better or worse), and one is closely correlated with estrogen-related cancers such as breast cancer and ovarian cancer.

The good news is a simple urine test you can do at home will tell you how much of each metabolite you are making, and if your body needs help clearing out used estrogen.

Even better news is that there are lots of ways to help your body if it needs it.

I take this test every year now for peace of mind. We all probably know women who have had breast cancer, or on birth control, fertility meds, or hormone replacement therapy. And men struggling with hormone imbalance as they age is an increasing problem.

Questions? I’m here for you!

02/22/2021

A good night’s sleep can affect 11,000 genes.

That’s just one of the incredible facts I’m learning in my studies in nutrigenomics—-how to affect our hormones, weight, disease status, and health using food choices based on your individual genetic profile.

Very cool!!

Want to turn your genes off and on? The science of epigenetics is telling us how.

“Epi” means “above.” What is above your genes? Your lifestyle.

In Chinese medicine, we call it Post Natal Jing.

Your genes have to be turned on to express their effect on your life. You may carry a gene for an autoimmune disease or cancer or heart disease, etc. But that disease may not develop until it is turned on by something in your life.

And then you can turn it off.

Your food choices, sleep, exercise, chemical exposures, and even meditation all play a role in epigenetics. In TCM, acupuncture and tai chi affect Post Natal Jing, too.

How does this work? Your genes are coiled up when they are not expressing. Lifestyle and environmental factors cause specific gene areas on your DNA to uncoil, and be read by your body. Only then can your body manufacture the proteins and enzymes that build your body and make it run. Change the environment, change the opening and closing of that coil.

Your genes are your Book of Life. YOU however get to be the editor.

How inspiring is that?

02/20/2021

Good things are coming!

02/09/2021

Hello to all the new faces I see! I’m delighted you have joined us!

I’m Amy, a different kind of doctor, and with you on the path to bringing more life and balance into your body—-so you experience the life you wish for!

Whether you want to bring new life in to your body to heal you, or to create a baby, or simply to feel more amazing than ever before . . . I want to help you.

One thing few people know about me is that I was really angry when my doctor (a neurologist in 1997) told me there was no hope for me except maybe acupuncture. I felt defeated, desperate, and confused. I was 27 years old and my life felt permanently shattered.

Have you ever been so angry, only to find “Life isn’t happening TO you. Life is happening FOR you.”?

I came to natural health in desperation and disbelief. I stayed for the miracles. The journey healed my faith in my body and in Life.

An amazing life is your birthright. How will you bring more Life and miracles into your story?

There are miracles in conventional medicine, Chinese medicine, natural medicine, prayer, and all things good under creation.

I hope you remain open to ALL the possibilities in your life, whether they come from places you expect them from, or not. And I hope feeling angry and defeated never stops you from completing your journey to the other side where joy awaits!

Read more About Me for the full story. Link in bio.

With love,
Dr Amy