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Category: functional-medicine

How many celebrity doctor shows, blogs, and social media posts have you encountered that tell you to ‘reduce stress?’ It’s the worst advice out there. It’s like telling a 3 year old to go to sleep, right after devouring birthday cake by saying, ‘just close your eyes.’

Jerry Seinfeld said all the answers to life are revealed if you just ‘look to the cookie.’ With all the answers to health, ditch the cookie, and look to the petri dish.

I recently added HBOT (Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy) into my clinic. Why? Because chronic illness needs a multi-faceted approach.

My wife and I decided to get a new mattress. The one we had was only 4 years old but ended up being a piece of junk. I still remember the day we bought it.

Affecting more Americans than heart disease and cancer combined, many of you may be suffering and not even know it!

Glyphosate is the world’s most widely produced herbicide. You know it as RoundUp. It is a broad-spectrum herbicide that is used in more than 700 different products for agriculture and forestry to home use. Glyphosate was introduced in the 1970s to kill weeds by targeting and suppressing the enzymes that produce the amino acids tyrosine, tryptophan, and phenylalanine.

But what if? What if all states took away exemptions for vaccines? What would be the unintended consequences of making everyone get the shots? The more I think about it, I see 3 unintended consequences for removing vaccine exemptions.

I avoid debates about disease causation because most are arguing within a ‘direct cause’ paradigm. Not everyone that smokes gets lung cancer. But it happens. Not everyone that gets into a car accident, breaks a bone. But it happens. Not everyone that gets a vaccine, develops autism. But it happens.

My 1st grader came home from school commissioned to find as many ‘box tops’ as he could for a school project. As he rummaged our cabinets, he get seriously discouraged. “What’s wrong?”

Does information get you results quicker? Rarely. It’s when you combine information with action that you create knowledge and you’re heading in the right direction. But if you want to save even more time getting to your health goals, you must combine knowledge with this…

Nutritional debates will never end. Most debates have the starting point of ‘XYZ food item as being good or bad?’ This is why the debate will never be settled. People are trying to create a scientific argument within a moral framework. This is when nutrition turns into religion or dogma.

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Whether it’s a blood or a scratch test, I think testing for food allergies and sensitivities is overrated. These are reactions to disruptions higher up the food chain (pun intended). Consider a few of these tests before testing your food reactions.

A common complaints of systemic inflammatory conditions like brain fog, auto-immune disorders, and even chronic pain is the ability to make decisions.

A question I get often is, “why should someone avoid gluten even if they don’t have a sensitivity to it?”

While optimizing your lifestyle is a key components of our YOUniversity program to make you the best version of YOU, identifying and applying your unique super powers is where people really start to soar with results.

Life is filled with moments that shape our journey. As I enter my 15th year of clinical practice, there are 3 defining moments that shaped my career path and lead me to functional medicine as a provider.

Wanting to start the New Year off well with your perfect diet but not sure how to figure it out? Is it Keto? Vegan? Paleo? Or is it better to assess your unique biochemical needs and not and try to fit into a box of diets?

Before you step foot into a functional medicine clinic, it’s imperative that you understand these 4 things to shape your expectations and experience.

Many try and out meditate their worry, fear, or anger.  I guess that’s better than trying to out medicate them or drinking them away.  But I don’t think this was Read More