5 Ways to Control Your Weight Through Perimenopause — and Beyond
Hormonal shifts that occur during perimenopause can make it hard to maintain a healthy weight. Here are five strategies to manage your weight through this phase and beyond.
Your Genes and Caffeine Consumption
Why can some people fall asleep like a baby after having caffeine in the evening while others will suffer from insomnia? I get this question all the time and there is a VERY good reason. It comes from our GENETICS!
There are specific genotypic variants called single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP's) that designate whether we are slow or normal metabolizers of caffeine. Studies have shown that if you are a slow metabolizer of caffeine your risk for a heart attack can go up by 36%! At ARA Integrative and Functional Medicine, we are doing an array of genetic testing that focuses on Nutrigenomics. This type of genetic testing enables us to detect these variants as well as over 100 additional food-related SNPs.
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