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If you're feeling achy, experiencing fatigue, or noticing fullness in your joints, you might be dealing with inflammation.
To get to the root cause of an issue, it's essential to dig deeper beyond surface-level symptoms. This approach involves asking probing questions, analyzing patterns, and understanding underlying motivations.
Investing in your health doesn't necessarily mean spending hours at the gym or buying expensive supplements, sometimes it's as simple as rethinking your eating habits.
Have you looked at your mission statement recently? You know, that personal declaration that defines your purpose, your goals, and who you want to become.
The people we surround ourselves with significantly influence not just our moods, but our perspectives and overall well-being. Thus, it becomes crucial to take an inventory of our relationships.
It's time to cleanse your mind, clear your thoughts, and rejuvenate your mental wellbeing. We often talk about detoxifying our bodies, but what about our minds?
In today's fast-paced, technology-driven world, it's all too easy to lose sight of our core, our spirit, that inner essence that defines who we are. One way to regain that connection, to refresh our spirits and realign with our true selves, is through a spiritual detox.
Detoxing your body is a familiar concept, but have you ever considered detoxing your environment? It involves a deep cleaning of your space, taking into consideration not just the visible dirt, but also the invisible pollutants that can negatively affect your health.
Thyroid disorders are prevalent, especially in women, affecting roughly 10 million individuals who have been diagnosed with low thyroid functionality. Countless others likely suffer from undiagnosed issues or sub-optimal thyroid operation. However, detecting low thyroid function is not sufficient. We must ask, "Why is this happening, and why now?"
Among the many essential uses of magnesium are: normal muscle function, normal nerve function, regulation of heart rhythm, regulation of blood sugar, maintain bone health, maintain a healthy immune system, detoxify the internal and external world, and generate energy.
Lyme disease is a challenging infectious disease that, if not treated completely, could lead to a chronic condition.
The sun can energize us. Its daily and seasonal cycles are the foundations of our circadian rhythms. Sunlight absorbed through our skin drives our production of the master hormone Vitamin D. And sunlight creates oxidative stress and increases DNA damage in the skin (squamous cell cancer and melanoma).
In Functional Medicine, we combine a functional approach to health using lifestyle and diet combined with appropriate herbal, vitamin, and mineral support. Compounding of medications goes back to the very beginnings of medicine. Advanced technology makes it possible for a qualified pharmaceutical laboratory to achieve the accuracy of pharmaceutical companies while treating each case individually for optimum results.
Fatigue. It’s become all too common. From debilitating fatigue (chronic fatigue syndrome) to waking tiredness, fatigue is contributing to significant inefficiencies at work, problems with concentration, personal performance, and relationships.
This exciting study presents data that a Functional Medicine approach to memory decline can help improve that memory loss. The approach is highly individual. In general an evaluation for memory decline needs to include genetic factors, gut functional, toxin load and detoxification process, inflammation, bacteria/fungus/virus burden, metabolic and hormonal balance, stress, brain capacity, exercise, sleep, diet, deficiencies, among others.
Children, Parents, Grandparents. They all have different health needs, and yet there is a common thread in the approach to achieving optimum health regardless of a person’s age.
Pain is a natural experience that most everyone will have at some time in their lives.
Functional medicine is the new language of medicine through which chronic disease can be reversed and health can be optimized.
Your gut health is a cornerstone to your overall well-being and plays a pivotal role in your body's natural detoxification process. But did you know that a successful detox is about more than just sipping on green juices and indulging in salads?