Linda Verjus Nutritional Therapist

18/11/2025

Your hormones do so much for you! They help with regulating energy, mood, fertility, metabolism, and sleep. But many of us don’t realize that everyday exposures from plastics, fragrances, and cleaning products can quietly throw that balance off.

The good news? You don’t need to overhaul your life overnight.
Start with simple, practical swaps:

🥤 Glass or stainless steel instead of plastic
🌿 Mineral sunscreen instead of chemical filters
🫧 Vinegar + castile soap instead of harsh cleaners
🕯️ Essential oils or fresh herbs instead of synthetic scents

Even small changes can lower your toxic load and support your body’s natural hormone harmony.

Want to learn which swaps make the biggest difference, and how to make them step-by-step?

Read the full guide on my BLOG!!

11/11/2025

They’re called hormone disruptors (or endocrine disruptors), chemicals found in everyday items like plastics, non-stick pans, fragrances, and lotions. They can mimic or block your body’s natural hormones, confusing the signals that control mood, metabolism, fertility, and more.

Even tiny daily exposures add up over time and have been linked to thyroid issues, PCOS, infertility, early puberty, and hormone-sensitive cancers.

💡 The good news? Small swaps make a big difference.
Think: glass instead of plastic, fragrance-free instead of scented, stainless instead of non-stick.

Balance starts with awareness.

If you are wondering about swapping out other products you use daily, you can search on the EWG website www.ewg.org/cleaners

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16/10/2025

Always learning, always growing 🌿

I recently completed my Advanced Functional Medicine Health Consultant certification through the Kharrazian Institute—one of the most advanced programs in functional medicine education.

Ongoing education means I can keep showing up with the best tools, insights, and care possible for my clients.

Schedule with me today!

16/09/2025

That's why we don't just address one hormonal system in isolation. We honor the hierarchy and support the WHOLE system. If the upstream hormones are in chaos, we can expect the downstream to follow suit.

Here’s how I might structure care as a functional medicine practitioner so we’re fixing the foundation before fiddling with the fixtures.

1) Rebuild the clock (2–4 weeks).

Aim for a consistent sleep window (e.g., 10:30 pm–6:30 am), anchored by morning outdoor light and dimmer evenings.
Keep caffeine to the first half of the day; front-load calories earlier. These steps improve insulin sensitivity and stabilize cortisol rhythms.

2) Tame the HPA axis- stress system (ongoing).
Daily 6–10 minutes of slow breathing or prayer + breath (physiologically lowers sympathetic tone).
Resistance training 2–4x weekly; walking after meals.
If using glucocorticoids, coordinate with your prescriber to monitor glucose; we have evidence-based strategies to mitigate steroid-induced dysglycemia.

3) Stabilize glucose and insulin.

Build meals around protein + fiber + healthy fats + colorful plants; keep refined starches as accents.
Try a daylight-aligned eating window on most days (not perfection, but pattern). These rhythms normalize peripheral clocks and improve metabolic markers.

4) Support thyroid signaling by context, not just TSH.
Ensure selenium, iodine, iron, and B-vitamins are sufficient from food or supplements if deficient.
Address inflammation, sleep debt, and caloric insufficiency that can skew deiodinase activity.

5) Then optimize s*x hormones.
Once the clock, stress, thyroid, and insulin are steady, fine-tune estrogen, progesterone, testosterone with lifestyle or medications if indicated. In PCOS, treat insulin resistance first; in hypothalamic amenorrhea, restore energy availability; in perimenopause, layer upstream work alongside any hormone therapy for better outcomes.

If you suspect that your hormones are out of balance, schedule your free consultation to get on the path back toward health and optimal rhythm.

02/09/2025

There's an order in which we need to address the disorder!

As a functional medicine practitioner, I’m often asked to “balance hormones.” What most people mean is estrogen, progesterone, or testosterone.

But here’s the truth we must work from: those s*x hormones live downstream of other master hormone regulators. If we don’t stabilize stress physiology, circadian rhythm, thyroid signaling, and insulin dynamics first, chasing s*x hormones is like remodeling the kitchen while the foundation is cracking.

The graphic shows what hormones in tier 1 we'd evaluate and address before tackling tier 3.

Stick around. I'll post more about hormonal hierarchy this month.

19/05/2025