Dr. Amy here writing to share that The Women’s Vitality Center is moving out of our downtown Berkeley office. While it was a hard decision to let go of this beautiful space that has been our home for the last 5 years, I’m excited about the freedom and flexibility this move allows. Over the…
Do you remember when you were a young teenager and your body started changing? Do you recall that you got all grumpy and irritable, and everything felt so weird and out of control? Well, that’s what can happen when your hormones are changing, whether it’s due to puberty or perimenopause. One simple way…
If only we learned how our bodies function as part of our early childhood education, it could really save a lot of pain, injury, stress, confusion and heartache as we get older! As a long-time massage therapist and national board certified health coach, I’ve worked with many people who honestly just don’t really understand…
Something feels off in my body but my regular tests are all “normal”. I think I have a hormone imbalance but how can I know which hormone it is? I asked my doctor to test my hormones and they said no! I want to know what is going on, can I get my hormones tested?…
How are you feeling these days? I don’t know about you, but I’m MOODY. I’m irritated when people in front of me are walking too slowly, exasperated when people don’t complete a task on my timeline, it drives me up the wall when my boyfriend can’t make up his mind about what he wants for…
Sophia noticed she was having increasingly heavy periods for the past several months. She was starting to dread her period – bleeding through tampons and pads, always worrying if she would leak through to her clothes at work, having debilitating cramps, and she was SO TIRED! In general her energy had been low for…
I jolted awake at 2am with two simultaneous thoughts. One was that my belly hurt SO badly that I didn’t want to move even one inch. And the second thought was that I *really* needed to pee. I lay there for several minutes trying to figure out how I was going to get to…
“Is it hot in here or is it just me?” Covers off, covers on, covers off, covers on… repeat. “I’m having these weird episodes of feeling warm and prickly, could this be a hot flash???” Sitting in a work meeting and suddenly feeling your face flush and fanning yourself while your clothes get damp with…
Sleep, rest, and hormones are interconnected in ways that many may not really understand. If you struggle to fall asleep, find yourself wide awake in the middle of the night, or if tossing and turning keeps you from getting the quality of sleep you need, you may find some valuable information below including practices and…
Hormonal health can be thought of as a pyramid, with the foundations of health at the bottom (such as sleep, fitness, nutrition, and balanced stress response), and blood sugar and insulin stability being the next tier up in the pyramid of key factors that stabilize all of the other hormones. When blood sugar is…
