by Drs. Julie and Rob Hamilton | Feb 8, 2019 | Wound Healing
Hormones are important chemical messengers in your body that control numerous systems and bodily functions. They control protein synthesis and degradation, growth, tissue repair, mood, and body composition. They tell your body when it is time to wake up and go to...
by Drs. Julie and Rob Hamilton | Feb 8, 2019 | Wound Healing
You may be familiar with “hot flashes” as the most common symptom of menopause, but there are many others, including mood swings, irritability, poor thinking, vaginal dryness, disturbed sleep, loss of muscle tone, depression, anxiety, and more. For years, women were...
by Drs. Julie and Rob Hamilton | Feb 8, 2019 | Wound Healing
Testosterone is found in both men and women. Although primarily thought of as the “male” hormone, during reproductive years it is actually present in women in a higher concentration than estradiol, which is the primary “female” hormone. In men, testosterone is...
by Drs. Julie and Rob Hamilton | Feb 6, 2019 | Wound Healing
DHEA is a steroid hormone made primarily by the adrenal glands. Although not all its functions are known or understood, production declines after age thirty and declines faster in some than others. It is a precursor to androgens and estrogens. Low DHEA levels...
by Drs. Julie and Rob Hamilton | Feb 6, 2019 | Wound Healing
The next few hormones we discuss are called “steroid hormones,” as their chemical structure is based on what is called a steroid molecule, a specific backbone of seventeen carbon atoms arranged in three six-atom rings and one five-atom ring. The most common steroid in...
by Drs. Julie and Rob Hamilton | Feb 6, 2019 | Wound Healing
Human growth hormone (HGH), also known as somatotropin, is an important hormone secreted in pulsatile fashion by the pituitary gland after adequate melatonin production has been sensed. Although not all the effects are understood, we know HGH has many critical...
by Drs. Julie and Rob Hamilton | Feb 6, 2019 | Wound Healing
Cortisol is one of the few hormones that generally increases with age, and that is not a good thing. The pituitary gland (in the brain) produces adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH), which stimulates the adrenal glands to produce cortisol. The actions of cortisol...
by Drs. Julie and Rob Hamilton | Feb 6, 2019 | Wound Healing
A critically important and often overlooked hormone for wound healing is thyroid hormone. The pituitary gland (in your brain) produces thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH), which acts upon the thyroid gland, a butterfly-shaped gland that sits astride the trachea (in your...
by Drs. Julie and Rob Hamilton | Feb 6, 2019 | Wound Healing
Vitamin D’s name can be misleading. It is actually a hormone, not a vitamin. Vitamins are necessary cofactors in enzymatic biochemical reactions in your body, and they cannot be synthesized in your body—that is, we must get them from food. Vitamin D (also known as...
by Drs. Julie and Rob Hamilton | Jan 1, 2019 | Wound Healing
If we lived ideal lifestyles in a perfect world, none of us would need supplements, and in fact our goal is to get you to the place where you do not need them. However, if you have a non-healing wound, we are certain you need some extra help, and that is where dietary...
