Part 2: Cortisol — How Undernourishment Impacts the Stress Response When we think about stress, we often think about busy schedules, difficult conversations, lack of sleep, or the demands of daily life. But there is another form of stress that often goes unnoticed: The stress created when the body doesn't receive consistent nourishment. Many people are surprised to learn that skipping meals, eating too little protein, restricting carbohydrates, or relying on caffeine to get t

Insulin: The Gatekeeper Everything Else Depends On By Drema | Drema Wellness There is a reason insulin is often discussed first when we talk about hormones. Not because it is the only hormone that matters—but because so many other systems respond to the stability or instability it creates. Insulin is not “good” or “bad.”It is a messenger. Its role is to help move glucose from the bloodstream into the cells, where it can be used for energy, repair, and survival. This is a norm

There is a conversation happening inside your body every day. It begins before your first bite and continues long after your last. Hormones are the messengers—and food is what gives them something to say. Not just hunger and fullness. This includes your thyroid, cortisol rhythm, estrogen clearance, progesterone production, metabolism, mood, sleep, and reproductive health. These systems are not separate. They are shaped—meal by meal—by how you nourish your body. On Earth Day,

There is a place in the body that doesn’t need to brace— but that doesn’t mean it is without tone. In Fascia Yoga, we explore the balance between allowing and engaging. Not collapse, and not control— but something more intelligent than both. The deep core line is not something we force on. It ’s something we begin to feel through alignment, attention, and breath. As the body organizes, we may notice areas that have been overworking… and others that have been waiting to parti

Here I am — day five of the cleanse — and I feel pretty amazing. What's interesting is that this new formula feels milder than ever before, and in the most unexpected way, that mildness seems to be exactly what's needed right now. With so many outside influences coming at us through our senses every single day, we are detoxifying far more than we realize. The body and the mind are processing more in this modern moment than at any other time in human history. What this formula

The Year Lives in the Tissue The new year does not arrive only on the calendar. It arrives quietly, through the body. It arrives in tissues that remember last year’s effort— how we moved through our days, how we held ourselves together, how often we braced, rushed, or pushed through. In fascia, nothing is erased. Every experience leaves an impression. Fascia is living memory. Not memory as story, but memory as sensation. It remembers how we met challenge, how we prepared for

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