A Band-Aid... for Your Lungs

It's spring. Which means that along with flowers blooming and "beach body" resolutions looming, allergies are hitting. Hard.

As rates of asthma and allergies rise each year, so does...

Dr. Mark Hyman, will you be my boyfriend? (My husband says it's okay!)

Because you're just about the cutest, smartest man I've had the chance to talk sugar with. And not just sugar --...

You know the bad boy you dated in high school or college? You knew he was bad news, you even knew it would end badly, but you dated him anyway.

That's cortisol.

Cortisol...

When half my hair fell out after giving birth to each daughter, I was alarmed. I went to my doctor, and a curious thing occurred: I was roundly dismissed.

I'm a doctor who takes...

What's kinda got my female clinician's knickers in a twist about this study is the abstinence part. Here's what I'm thinking: If alcoholics, who presumably drank a lot, were able to show improved bone mineralization...

When it comes to your health, your hormones, and your mission, you know I'm looking out for you, right? I want to help you be as juicy, gorgeous, healthy and happy as you can be,...

"Cortisol switch" is when you flip from the cortisol love -- which is where cortisol is helping you be productive, helping you focus, helping you feel on top of the world and capable of anything, similar to...

"Abandon a project" will make me happier at home? Damn, it's true. I'm not a quitter but yet again, Gretchen Rubin changed my thinking and taught me five new things about connecting to my joie...

If you don't feel much when your husband flashes his love lights, you just might need a dose of Fifty Shades. When you push your hot button, is the result less than toe-curling? If sex with...

Acne sucks, yet it is preventable. There is a crucial link between how your eat and your complexion.

When it comes to breakouts and zits, DO NOT go for the antibiotics and harsh chemicals that...

Today I want to dish on my Achilles' heel, which is the wayward, dysregulated hormone called cortisol. I wrote last time about the "cortisol switch" (described in part one -- click here for the definition), and now let's talk about...

Have you heard of the "cortisol switch"?

The Good

Here's the scenario. When you're stressed, you feel the positive vibe of cortisol -- the rise of energy, the focus, the charge, the ascent. Cortisol is the main stress hormone made in your adrenal glands and it's designed to get you...

First the good news: There's a workaround.

Now the bad news: Coffee is working against you in more ways than one. You may think it's your ally, and the most recent New England Journal...

Perhaps you've noticed that the level of discourse on hormones and how they drive what we're interested in... well, sucks. Women feel they either need to martyr their way through the years from 35 to 50-plus, or they consider taking hormones with tremendous fear and trepidation, as if they might...