Abundant Life Wellness - Dr. Brandon Maxwell

05/12/2024

Happy Mother's Day to our wonderful patients. Enjoy your special day! It is beautiful weather out. Enjoy the sunshine 🌞 🌺🌷🌹⚘️😊🪻🪷⚘️

04/01/2024

03/01/2024

Jennifer has been a part of our Wellness team as our Clinical Nutritionist for 10 years.

This is her husband.

Please pray for him. He is really sick. If he has no complications, and he survives, his recovery will be 8 months to a year with no income.

Please consider helping one of our own.

Anything helps. Please pray for Steve, Jennifer and their family.

They appreciate all of the love and prayers.

Hello my name is Emily, I am a longtime friend of Jenny and Steve and their beautiful family. Steve… Emily Flores needs your support for Steve Wilson & Family

12/07/2023

Exciting News!

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12/05/2023

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11/23/2023

Happy Thanksgiving from our Wellness team at Abundant Life Weight Loss and Wellness.

We are so thankful for all of our wonderful patients.

We thank you for trusting us to help reach your health and weight loss goals.

We believe in you!

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11/17/2023

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11/15/2023

BLACK FRIDAY SPECIAL!!

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10/18/2023

Understanding the Three Phases of Menopause

When people think of menopause, they often view it as a single phase when it's really three distinct stages: peri-menopause, menopause, and post-menopause.

1️⃣ Peri-menopause: This is your primary symptomatic phase where you find most of the struggles and complaints. This phase can last for several frustrating years.

In peri you'll have menstrual cycles where you don't ovulate, which leads to a drop in your progesterone (P) levels. As estrogen (E) and P are closely linked hormones [think of them as non-identical twin sisters], the absence of P affects your estrogen levels. While P aims to regulate and balance E, E can fluctuate very unpredictably in its absence. This exposes you to the negative effects of elevated stress/cortisol and is the cause of the increase in abdominal fat.

2️⃣ Menopause: this is the transitional point, and is defined as a 12-month period without menstruation, confirmed by an FSH test above 30mIU/ml.

3️⃣ Post-menopause: this is a brand new hormonal landscape [so stop trying to diet/exercise/work out the same way]. With the fall of both E and P, testosterone can become more relatively dominant, and insulin sensitivity falls, further affecting fat distribution and leading to a continued shift in body shape.

So how to navigate it?

✅ Nutrition:
A key aspect of managing peri/menopause is carb intake. Too few carbs will lead to more stress hormone release to regulate blood sugar, while too many can increase fat storage in an insulin resistant environment. During peri/menopause a carb-focused approach becomes important. A good starting place to adjust from is 100g carbs on non-lifting days and 150g on lifting days.

I hope anyone working out with a goal of looking like they work out, already knows they should be intentional about consuming enough protein per day.

Be mindful of your calories. When estrogen and progesterone are balanced, the body better manages calorie deficits. However, with declining progesterone levels, calorie deficits become more stressful. It's super important to aim for small deficits and include either deficit breaks or a cycling of calories.

✅ Training/Cardio:
Instead of intensive cardio workouts, embrace lots of normal-paced walking, ideally outside. Your exercise/movement/workouts should NOT be about weight loss and calorie burn and should be about de-stressing, emphasizing recovery and maintaining or gaining muscle and strength. Walking and proper strength training (long rest intervals b/w work sets) are essential through your menopausal years.

✅ Rest, Recovery & Relaxation:
Dedicate time to restorative activities such as nature walks, socializing, creative pursuits, reading, hot baths, time with friends, and whatever else does it for you. Schedule your R&R workouts like you do your lifting workouts.

✅ Sleep:
It's a struggle. The first step is same bed time, same wake time every day, try not to deviate more than 60 minutes. Take a few minutes to get morning sun in your eyes; this morning sun starts your body's sleep preparation.

The peri/menopausal journey demands serious self-care, a commitment to walking more, training smarter, and prioritizing your overall wellness. But for those who do, there's lots of progress that you can make.

09/04/2023

Wishing all of our wonderful Wellness family a very Happy Labor Day!

08/30/2023

Delicious healthy meal! Mahi mahi, aparagus and the best tomatoes ever.

08/13/2023

We’ve been led to believe that the thyroid “controls it all,” but this simply isn’t true.

Here are a few examples:
When the body is stressed, this taxes the adrenals and also creates blood sugar imbalance. The hypothalamus sees this, and tells the pituitary to send out more or less TSH, creating a hypothyroid or hyperthyroid situation.

If the body is not digesting food well (VERY common), then the thyroid doesn’t have the raw materials it needs to make thyroid hormones so FT4 and FT3 decline. The thyroid is simply responding to the deficiency in the body.

When there is chlorine and fluoride in the bloodstream (from chlorinated and fluoridated water), the thyroid grabs on to these halogens thinking they are iodine, and the FT4 and FT3 levels can go off balance.

Your thyroid is super sensitive to ANY kind of stress be it mental, physical, or emotional stress, synthetic chemicals, poor digestion, nutrient deficiencies, radiation, etc. and it simply responds to the environment that it’s in.

Your thyroid WANTS to work properly, but you have to give it the right environment.

Jennifer Nabholz, CCN
Clinical Nutritionist

08/12/2023

This is the amount of sugar an individual will consume if they drink one soda each day for one month. 😲
Astonishing.