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UnCURABLE | Part 6:
The Secret Under Your Feet
How Healthy Soil Builds Healthy Humans
Most people think healing starts in the gut. But long before food reaches your plate, the soil beneath your feet has already shaped your microbiome—and your health.
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Chronic Health Issues
Autoimmune & Autoinflammatory Disease
Addressing the Seismic Rise in Chronic Health Issues
Chronic health issues (autoimmune & autoinflammatory) are now the most common medical problems we deal with. How can you protect yourself?
Straight Talk About Supplements | Part 6
Protein & Collagen
A Doctor’s Guide
When you purchase protein powder or collagen, you expect it to support your health. But you have to be wise.
Straight Talk About Supplements | Part 5
If You Only Take One Supplement...
It Should Be Vitamin D!
Unfortunately, this is the time of year when we most need vitamin D, and our bodies are least able to produce it.
Straight Talk About Supplements | Part 4
Demystifying CBD & THC
Is it Safe? Is It Smart?
I often receive questions about CBD & THC. What are the benefits and risks? How can you find a safe and effective product? Are they right for you?
Straight Talk About Supplements | Part 3
Safety First: How to Vet Your Supplements
Learn to vet your supplements to ensure their safety.
Straight Talk About Supplements | Part 2
Your Supplements May Be Lying to You
2 Troubling Scams To Steer Clear Of
Warning: Your supplement may contain hidden pharmaceuticals. The labels could be lying to you about their contents.
Straight Talk About Supplements | Part 1
Supplements & Snake Oil
5 Things You Need to Know About Supplements
We love and hate supplements for good reasons: they offer the best of medicine and the worst of human deception.
Chronic Lyme Disease
Demystifying Lyme Disease
Understanding, Diagnosing, & Treating This Mysterious Illness
The number of Lyme disease cases in the US is greater than breast cancer, yet its still widely misunderstood and misdiagnosed.
Functional Primary Care | Part 2
Functional Primary Care: It’s Never Too Late to Invest In Your Future.
(And We’ve Made It Easier Than Ever)
Jodi’s journey is a testament to her belief that it’s never too late to make a life change.
Functional Primary Care | Part 1
Functional Primary Care: The Next (Right) Step in Healthcare
Who would benefit from adopting a functional medicine approach to their personal healthcare?
Age Is Just a Number
Anti-Aging Strategies
Imagine the aging process in your body slowing down. Can we decelerate aging and live a vibrant…
Welcome to RIFM | Part 2
Functional Medicine
What Is It?
How Does It Work?
Is It Right For Me?
Welcome to RIFM | Part 2: Functional Medicine What Is It?How Does It Work?Is It Right For…
Welcome to RIFM | Part 1
Holistic Medicine: A Better Standard of Care
Untangling Conventional, Integrative, and Functional Medicine to Select the Right Tool for the Job
Conventional medicine has its place, but sometimes integrative or functional medicine might be a better fit. The key is to know when to use which tool.
Your Mouthwash is Killing You
(And What to Use Instead)
Discover how mouthwash can destroy nitric oxide production—raising blood pressure, harming cardiovascular health, and sabotaging your wellbeing. Learn the science-backed alternatives that restore oral health without the dangerous side effects.
Superpower or Supersyndrome? | Part 1
Hypermobility Spectrum Disorder
How a Superpower Can Become Your Achilles Heel
What if I were to tell you I’ve discovered one root cause — one predisposing factor associated with the most common & complex issues doctors address every day?
Mold Wars
Five Battlegrounds in the ‘Mold Wars’ Debate
There’s a lot of debate, even in the functional medicine world, about chronic illness related to mold toxicity. Let’s look at five specific battlegrounds in the debate.
Lifestyle Medicine for Stress | Part 4
Creativity, Nature, & Relationships
In this last post in my series on Lifestyle Medicine for Stress, I’d like to introduce three more interventions that can effectively help us to manage stress, reduce cortisol, and help our bodies better respond to challenges.
Lifestyle Medicine for Stress | Part 3
Mindfulness & Breathing
Both strategies — mindfulness & diaphragmatic breathing — are backed by a great deal of research on addressing the negative health effects of stress. Let’s talk about the power of these two seemingly simple interventions, and how you might incorporate them into your life.
Lifestyle Medicine for Stress | Part 2
Exercise
As we know, unmitigated stress has been linked to various diseases. I see its effects in my clinic every day, so I think that it’s incredibly important to talk about this elephant in the room. Physical exercise is another powerful intervention to help mitigate the effects of stress.
Lifestyle Medicine for Stress | Part 1
The Power of Yoga
Stress is the elephant in the room that people aren’t talking much about in the medical world…