The Hormone Reset Method™ Journal

Clinical, science-backed guidance on hormones, metabolism, sleep and long-term energy for women, from dietitian Tina Chagoury.

• Iron Deficiency That Never Improves Is Telling You Something: Low iron since childhood is not a personality trait. If supplements are not correcting it, something else is going on.
• The HPA Axis: Why Stress Is a Physical Condition, Not a Mood: When I say stress is affecting your hormones, this is the actual pathway. Stress is an inflammatory, physical state, not a feeling.
• Your Hormones Are Repaired at Night. That Is Why Sleep Comes First.: The maintenance of your hormones happens during sleep. Which means the first thing you do to sleep well happens in the morning, not at bedtime.
• Your Gut and Your Hormones Are the Same Conversation: You cannot treat hormones and ignore the gut. One of the body's main routes for clearing used hormones runs straight through it.
• Gluten: Who Actually Needs to Avoid It, and Who Does Not: Gluten is inflammatory for most people to some degree. That does not mean the answer is a shelf full of gluten free products.
• Protein Is the Foundation of Hormonal Balance. Here Is How Much You Need.: If I could change one thing about how most women eat, it would be this. Protein and blood sugar stability are the foundation of hormonal balance.
• The Six Meal Myth: Why Constant Healthy Snacking Works Against You: The little snacks. A date here, an apple there, a biscuit, a handful of nuts. All day long. This is one of the most common patterns I have to undo.
• Hashimoto’s Is Not Just a Thyroid Problem: Treating Hashimoto's as a thyroid problem alone misses most of what is happening. The immune system is part of the conversation.
• Why Collagen Works Beautifully for Some Women and Does Nothing for Others: If collagen has done nothing for you, the supplement may not be the problem. Your internal environment decides whether it can work at all.
• Creatine Is Not Just for Muscle, and Not Just for Men: Creatine has a reputation problem among women that the research does not support. It matters for muscle, and increasingly for cognition too.
• Why Autoimmune Symptoms Get Worse in Your 40s: If your autoimmune symptoms have intensified in your forties, there is a specific mechanism behind it, and it is not a coincidence.
• Perimenopause and Menopause Are Not the Same Thing: Most of what women call menopause is actually perimenopause, and the distinction matters because the two stages behave completely differently.
• Your Liver Can Make Fat Out of Sugar. Here Is How Fatty Liver Starts.: It is not enough to say that eating fat makes fat. Your liver can build fat out of sugar, and understanding how explains a great deal.
• Visceral Fat Is Not Just Belly Fat. It Is an Active Organ.: Fat around your organs is not passive storage. It secretes inflammatory compounds and drives a cycle that is difficult to break once it starts.
• How to Read a Body Composition Analysis (And Why Your Weight Tells You Nothing): When I look at your body composition, I can tell what you have been doing. Here is how to read your own.
• Common Is Not the Same as Normal: 5 Symptoms Women Should Stop Living With: Something can be extremely common and still not be normal. These five symptoms are the ones women most often learn to live with, and should not.
• Does PCOS Go Away in Perimenopause? No. It Changes Shape.: Your cycle may change, but the hormonal and metabolic patterns behind PCOS do not simply resolve. In perimenopause they often become more visible, not less.
• If I Had Six Weeks to Change Your Hormones, This Is Exactly What I Would Do: Not a diet. A sequence. This is the order I would work in, one change at a time, and the reason each week comes where it does.
• 7 Signs Your Blood Sugar Is Not Stable (Without a Blood Test): I talk constantly about keeping blood sugar stable. Here is how you can tell whether yours is, before you ever get a blood test.
• Water Retention Is Not One Problem. It Is Eight.: Water retention has one name and at least eight causes. It is a signal that something in the body is out of balance, and it is worth knowing which thing.
• Underfed and Overtrained: Why Eating More Can Be What Finally Works: If you eat very little, train hard, and your weight will not move, you are not failing. You may be in the exact state that prevents change.
• “I Don’t Feel Like Myself Anymore”: The Perimenopause Symptom Nobody Names: It is the sentence I hear most often, and for years it was dismissed as vague. It is now one of the most recognised descriptions of perimenopause there is.
• How Can You Be Vitamin D Deficient in One of the Sunniest Places on Earth?: It is the question I hear most in clinic. Sunshine and vitamin D production are not the same thing, and the difference explains everything.
• Why Your Weight Is “Blocked”: 11 Reasons a Plateau Has Nothing to Do With Willpower: If your weight has stopped moving, that is not a willpower problem. It is a signal. Here are the eleven things worth investigating before you cut calories again.
• Insulin Resistance in Women, Explained Simply: Insulin resistance is one of the most talked about and least understood terms in women's health. Here is what is actually happening in your body.