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.

Amino acids are broken down from proteins in our diet by a properly functioning digestive system. Foods high in proteins are usually sufficient to give us our necessary amount of amino acids.

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.

Part of an integrative approach to wellness is checking for nutritional deficiencies that can contribute to, or even cause, imbalances in blood sugar (glucose). Increased consumption of simple carbohydrates in your diet can increase blood insulin levels, which, in turn, can deplete a number of essential nutrients.

The culprit is gluten, a mixture of proteins including gliadins and glutenins, known for giving wheat dough its elastic texture. Gluten is also found in barley, oats, spelt, kamut and several other foods. A rise in gluten sensitivity and celiac disease, a serious autoimmune disease in which gluten damages the small intestine, has led folks to search out gluten-free options.

Almost immediately as immigrants arrive in the US and their diet changes, their gut bacteria changes. Microbial diversity decreases substantially and measurably. Those bacteria that most effectively metabolize complex carbohydrates reduce substantially.

The flora shifts from Prevotella dominance to Bacteroides dominance (and these changes propagate across generations).

Childhood obesity is increasing across the US. Childhood obesity is associated with lifetime obesity. Obesity is a primary predictor of development of diabetes type II, heart disease, cancer, arthritis, and sleep apnea. So it stands to reason that working to decrease childhood obesity is a valuable investment for the child’s future health.

When we encourage you to consider “Why” understanding the root causes of your symptom matters to you, we invite you into the process of deeply considering the options that are available to you to return yourself to better health.

Health is a present state evaluation that we assess and describe in the moment of our reflection. Healing is a process that takes variable lengths of time. Without that direct realization of cause and effect, motivation to change is lacking. And for the young who lack the ability of foresight or the realization of human frailty, the motivation to make health-related changes are even more difficult.

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Love and your microbiome. Just another reason to wonder who is really running our show: our minds, our hearts/emotions, or our gut and its treasure trove of bacteria? Does a more diverse microbiome help you or your bacteria identify and mate with your best prospective spouse? It is a gut level question.

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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.

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.

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