Endocrine Support:

If you are overweight, underweight, overtired, have a low sex drive, high or low blood pressure, low or high blood sugar, high cholesterol, depression,fertility problems, low stamina, poor digestion, PMS, IBS or any one of a host of other problems, chances are you have a weakness in the endocrine system. 

Thyroid:
Blood tests taken in your doctor's office may be able to confirm an under or over active thyroid but subclinical hypothyroidism, that is a low thyroid condition that doesn't fit within the doctor's criteria for hypothyroidism, is a significant problem. As Mary Shoman, a well respected author on thyroid disorders  says on her website, "we're patients... not lab values". Just because your doctor does not diagnose you with hypothyroidism does not mean your thyroid is functioning as well as your individual body needs it to. Click here for a hypothyroidism symptom/risks checklist .  Whether you have been diagnosed with low thyroid or just experience many of the symptoms I highly suggest following a healthy thyroid protocol including a diet high in iodine rich foods, excersize and consider supplementing iodine, zinc, calcium, potassium, magnesium, L-tryosine and B vitamins.  NSP products such as Thyroid Activator,Thyroid Support, or Liquid Dulse may be recommended, a BTA or Kinesiology can confirm whether supplementation would be benefitial.

Adrenals: 
Prevalent television commercials and infomercials will tell you that weight gain “is not your fault”, that you are doomed to carry extra weight because of a stressful lifestyle that compromise another endocrine gland, your adrenal glands. There is some truth to this,  under stress, physical, emotional or imaginary, the adrenals release the hormone cortisol. As cortisol levels rise, so do insulin levels and the level of leptin, a hormone that has been linked to weight gain. Furthermore, cortisol and another stress response hormone, adreneline, can trigger the body to burn lean muscles instead of fat. If your body is storing fat rather than burning it, you will gain weight. With prolonged periods of stress, such as a busy working parent would experience, the adrenals simply wear out and become depleted. By the time a person has developed the belly fat described in the commercials they are likely experiencing this depletion, called adrenal fatigue, and the highly stimulating products advertised are the last thing these poor overworked adrenals need. Medical doctors, in general, do not recognize and treat adrenal fatigue leaving patients tired, frustrated and fat. Although hypoadrenia was recognized in the early 20^th century as a distinct problem in addition to diseases such as Cushing's and Addison's, now, James L. Wilson tells us in his book Adrenal Fatigue, because it ”does not show up  clearly on a lab test or fit a diagnostic code, and (because) there is no known surgical or drug treatment for the symptoms, then it is as though the problem (of hypoadrenia) is not real.”¹ to the medical community. Making matters worse, to support and heal the adrenals, you need a nutrient rich diet but people suffering with fatigue due to weak adrenals often resort to poor diet choices, high sugar foods and caffeine, to help prop up their flagging energy levels. Wilson writes “The temporary increase in cortisol levels produced by driving the adrenals with too much fast food and caffeine causes people  with chronically low cortisol to put on weight because even temporary excess of cortisol causes fat to be deposited around the middle...The added weight adds to their lethargy, making them eat more and more of the wrong food to get thru the day”¹, a vicious cycle that then sets off a domino effect as the improper functioning of the adrenal gland interfers with the thyroid.