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Supporting Liver Detox With Functional Medicine and TCM
The need to cleanse in Spring is natural. After a long winter of hibernation, stagnation and overindulgence in holiday and comfort foods, snow days, and nights bingeing your favorite entertainment, the body is ready for a thorough detoxing and reset. It does this...
Managing Gastritis
With the impulse to indulge in comfort foods combined with the excesses that come with holiday eating, the winter season is a good time to talk about gastritis. Gastritis is the inflammation of the gastric mucosa, which is the lining of the stomach. This condition can...
Recognizing and Treating Hypertension: A Functional Medicine Approach
Hypertension, also known as high blood pressure, is a medical condition in which the blood pressure in the arteries is persistently elevated, specifically with a sustained blood pressure reading of over 140/80 mmHg or higher. The first number (systolic) represents the...
“Why Can’t I Digest Anything?” Understanding and Solving Digestive Problems
Nothing ruins a good day, a good vacation or simply a good meal like experiencing digestive problems. They can be uncomfortable, disruptive, or even embarrassing in your daily life. There are any number of reasons — some commonly known, others less understood — that...
Treating Seasonal Allergies with Functional Medicine
Spring officially kicks off with the vernal equinox, taking place this year on March 19. For most people, this is a welcome change after a long, dark and cold winter. But for allergy sufferers, this also means the beginning of drippy noses, sneezing fits, sinus...
Everything Falls Apart – Eventually
I have found that most people tend to be very stiff simply because they have successfully lived to a ripe age, and that a stretching program is a very important adjunct to manual care. If performed by the patient actively, frequently, and correctly, the results will...
Functional Medicine Treatment for Long COVID
When thinking about COVID-19, consider how far we have come since the outbreak of the pandemic in spring of 2020. While COVID-19 is no longer considered the crisis that it was in this country, and globally, we are still dealing with it as a persistent health concern,...
Menstrual Disorders Across the Age Spectrum: Recognizing Issues and Managing with Functional Medicine
One of the most complex, varied, mysterious and misunderstood components of women’s health is the reproductive cycle. And this is a source of great frustration and concern considering half of the planet’s population was born with a female reproductive cycle; and for...
Breaking Down Digestion and Misconceptions of GI Disorders
One of the most mysterious and varied health concerns relates to gastrointestinal (GI) problems. What parent can relate to the situation of their child’s vague but nonetheless urgent moan of “my tummy hurts”? Who among us can say they haven’t had some kind of “stomach...
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