The emphasis on naming diseases is pervasive throughout medicine, and it is a primary obstacle to changing the way we do things and finding answers to our health problems. For instance, two brain disorders with […]
Lyme disease and other tick-borne diseases often go undiagnosed or are misdiagnosed. This is partially because Lyme mimics other illnesses such as the flu, manifesting as diverse symptoms including headaches, muscle aches, stomach ulcers, constipation, […]
Functional Medicine is all about looking at the way our systems function together, rather than focusing on one part of the body at a time. The steps you take to support whole-body health work in […]
Mitochondria are key energy sources for our bodies. They are tiny factories housed within our cells that take the foods we eat and the oxygen we breathe and convert them into energy. That energy is […]
One of my favorite topics as a Functional Medicine doctor is poop, the microbiome, the gut-immune and gut-brain connections — there are so many angles we need to look at with gut health and they […]
Fasting has been shown to help with weight loss and losing dangerous inflammatory belly fat; it can reduce insulin levels and blood pressure, improve insulin sensitivity, and reduce the risk of diabetes; and it helps […]
The impact the gut has on the entire body should not be underestimated, but unfortunately in conventional medicine it often is. We are shuttling pounds and pounds of food into this tube we have called […]
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