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.

Water has no shape until we build up structures to contain it. These blocks can be compared to our thoughts, feelings, or memories that prevent the free flow of energy, thoughts & actions.

What you put into your garden is often what you get out of it. We encourage you to nourish your garden, weeding out/ pruning things that are not needed and planting new experiences.

Your health, similar to a garden, requires: planning, management, intentionality & daily effort.

Our nation’s healthcare system is in crisis because it costs an exorbitant amount to keep a person with a chronic disease alive and healthy. The number of people with chronic diseases has increased because our lifestyle choices can push our bodies out of balance. So it comes down to this: How might we choose to live healthier lives?

Stress, depression, and anxiety have been shown to increase susceptibility to viral syndromes. Now we can add loneliness and isolation to that list.

This study surveyed the participants who had not been diagnosed with COVID at an initial time and at one year. Of those people who reported having contracted COVID within that year, the researchers found that individuals who had reported increased stress, isolation, loneliness, anxiety, or depression had a greater likelihood of having COVID symptoms after the infection lasting at least one month.

Conversations about healthy nutrition often end with the observation that eating healthy is expensive. This tends to be true and is in itself a disturbing observation on the nature of our food industry and agribusiness. However, the sentiment is better framed, “Would it be too costly if I were to eat healthy food but less of it in general?” The question is not just the cost of food. The question is also how much food do we need to optimize our health.

We have long known that specific exercise regimens can shift our physiology in particular ways – tai chi helps balance, high intensity training reduces weight and improves cardiovascular health, strength training increases testosterone and the strength of the muscles worked. This fascinating study demonstrates the correlation between different types of exercise and specific moods and memory skills.

Depression and anxiety exists on a continuum from worry, fear, dread, shame, unworthiness to stress to super-stress to depressiveness with or without anxiousness to diagnoseable mood disorders. And we fluctuate at any given time along this trajectory.

Functional medicine is the new language of medicine through which chronic disease can be reversed and health can be optimized.