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If you’re a patient of ours at Robinhood Integrative Health then you’ve likely noticed all of the MDs here talk about hormones. The reason why is simple.  Americans nationwide suffer from declining hormone levels.   I’ve written about this plenty, but a quick explanation is: environmental factors as well as the natural ravages of age cause our hormone levels to fall.   One of the main hormones you should be concerned with falling low is pregnenolone.  Pregnenolone is considered the body’s “master hormone.”   If you want to read a medical definition of pregnenolone I’ve got you covered.  “Pregnenolone also known as P5, is an endogenous steroid hormone. It is the precursor of the progestogens, mineralocorticoids, glucocorticoids, androgens, and estrogens, as well as...

  Green tea. It’s one of nature’s most beneficial beverages as it contains far reaching health benefits that many other beverages will never manage to provide. Now, I do want to take a second and talk about a really big problem I have with green tea. It’s really not green. It’s more like a clear muddy brown. If it was green, it’d look like broccoli in a glass. But it doesn’t really look like that.  I guess it’d be a little more difficult to tell people to drink some muddy brown tea, right? Ok, enough of the funny man routine, let’s get down to medical business. And that’s discussing the health benefits behind one of the compounds found in green tea....

Do you want to improve energy and performance, enhance mood and mental well-being, look younger and feel better? Well, a “smelly horse” might be able to help.  This “smelly horse” is actually an ancient herb that has been credited with some pretty impressive healing potential. It has been shown to : Boost and protect the immune system Help combat stress and the effects of stress Improve learning, memory and reaction time Improve mood Help reduce brain cell degeneration Improve blood sugar Improve cholesterol Balance hormones Increase athletic stamina and endurance Support an energized and rejuvenated sense of well-being Help minimize the effects of dangerous free radicals known to cause inflammation And its extraordinary broad-spectrum properties are even showing promise as...