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Fatigue Before Your Period? You’re Not Alone. Here’s What Your Body Might Be Telling You

Do you feel exhausted, headachy, or even nauseous in the days before your period? If so, you're not alone. Many women report experiencing fatigue before their period, but few understand why it happens or what it means. Rather than brushing it off as "just PMS," it's worth asking a deeper question: Why is this happening? This is where naturopathic medicine shines. Rather than simply managing symptoms, we ask, what is the body trying to tell us? We explore how different systems—especially the hormonal, detoxification, and digestive systems—are working together, or not, during this critical phase of your menstrual cycle. [...]

Fatigue Before Your Period? You’re Not Alone. Here’s What Your Body Might Be Telling YouWendy Wells2025-07-29T23:21:18+00:00

Fatigue Ovulation: How to Tell If Your Fatigue Is Hormonal

Learn the key symptoms of hormone-related fatigue and what tests you need. If you're experiencing persistent fatigue and wondering if your hormones are to blame, you’re not alone. Many women feel drained during certain times of the month—but how can you tell if it's hormonal? And is fatigue with ovulation a real thing? Let’s explore the signs, testing options, and how to start uncovering the root cause. Is Your Fatigue Hormonal? Here’s What to Know Hormonal shifts throughout the menstrual cycle significantly influence your mood, energy levels, mental clarity, and sleep quality. Sex hormones, and other key hormones fluctuate [...]

Fatigue Ovulation: How to Tell If Your Fatigue Is HormonalWendy Wells2025-07-01T05:06:46+00:00

Fatigue & Lightheadedness: When to Be Concerned

Understand common causes of fatigue with lightheadedness and how to treat it. We’ve all felt it—that drained, head-swimming sensation where your energy feels wiped out and your balance feels just a bit off. Fatigue and lightheadedness are two very common symptoms that often appear together, especially in women during their menstrual cycle. But despite how common they are, these symptoms can also be misunderstood or brushed off—and in some cases, they can signal something more serious. These sensations are especially noticeable when dealing with fatigue with your period, a time when the body is more vulnerable to blood loss, [...]

Fatigue & Lightheadedness: When to Be ConcernedWendy Wells2025-06-25T20:00:00+00:00

Fatigue and Dizziness: When to Be Concerned

Understand the common causes of fatigue with dizziness—and when it’s time to dig deeper. Feeling tired is one thing—but when fatigue is paired with lightheadedness or dizziness, it’s often a signal from the body that something deeper is going on. If you’ve ever stood up and felt the room spin, or felt drained and woozy during your menstrual cycle, you’re not alone. These symptoms are common, but they’re not normal—and they can point to important imbalances in your health. Understanding Fatigue with Dizziness Fatigue and dizziness are closely related. They often stem from the same root causes: issues with [...]

Fatigue and Dizziness: When to Be ConcernedWendy Wells2025-07-24T16:45:56+00:00

The Hidden Causes of Depression: A Whole-Body Perspective

Depression is more than a mental health diagnosis—it’s a message from the body that something deeper is out of balance. While conventional medicine often reduces depression to a "chemical imbalance," naturopathic and functional medicine reveal that it’s far more complex—and far more treatable at the root. When I treat patients who suffer with depression, I am seeing beyond the diagnosis to the person and we look at all the possible underlying causes and find the ones that are at play in each person's case. Then we address, support the part of the body that is out of balance, and [...]

The Hidden Causes of Depression: A Whole-Body PerspectiveWendy Wells2025-06-24T18:34:12+00:00

Top Tips for Balancing Your Hormones Naturally

Hormone imbalance is when one or more of the sex hormones are higher or lower then they should be. The reasons for this can be many and are uniquely different for each person. Your levels will depend on how well you're producing the hormones and also how well you are detoxing them from your body. So your hormone balance depends on not only your endocrine system but your gastrointestinal health, nutritional status, your liver function, your medications, your diet and lifestyle. Common symptoms of hormone imbalance: hair loss low energy irregular menses heavy menses premenstrual syndrome (PMS) acne [...]

Top Tips for Balancing Your Hormones NaturallyWendy Wells2025-05-25T17:05:04+00:00

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