Functional Medicine Treatment for Long COVID

Functional Medicine Treatment for Long COVID BY HELENA AMOS, M.AC. L.AC., EURO. PHYSICIAN 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…
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Menstrual Disorders Across the Age Spectrum: Recognizing Issues and Managing with Functional Medicine

BY HELENA AMOS, M.AC. L.AC., EURO. PHYSICIAN 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…

Dark Circles Can Diagnose Poor Health

When you wake up in the morning and look in the mirror, what do you see? While this could be considered a very philosophical question requiring deep thought, for many people the first thing they notice is right on the surface—bags and dark…

Anti Aging And Your Immune System

In 1997, a Frenchwoman named Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122 years, 164 days. Although not verified, it was claimed that Mbah Gotho, a gentleman from Indonesia, was 146 years old at the time of his death in 2017, which would in theory…

MTHFR Gene Problems

When your body doesn’t have the genes to build the right tools to do the right jobs, problems arise. Specifically with the MTHFR gene, some examples are spina bifida. This is a birth defect, where the vertebral bones don’t fully close around the spinal cord, especially in the low back area. This leads to problems as small as having a limp in your walk to being completely wheelchair bound and having complete paralysis of the legs.