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8 Lifehacks to Reduce Stress
Stress is an unavoidable part of life, but it doesn’t have to control you. In this article,…
The Triangle of Health | Part 1
Your Best Year Yet: Stop Struggling & Start Thriving
Discover the 3 Simple Changes to Transform Your Health in 2025
3 Simple things tend to get us stuck … and they can also get us unstuck!
The Triangle of Health | Part 3
Stress: The Silent Saboteur of Your Health
(And How to Fight Back)
What is stress? Is it just getting stuck in traffic? Or is it something deeper, affecting every aspect of your health?
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September Strong | Part 2
Fall Stress Relief
Managing Seasonal Stress with Local Foods
September brings a 200% surge in respiratory infections, but Richmond’s fall harvest delivers precisely what your family’s immune system needs most…
The Connected Life Crisis
Body Image in the Filter Age
A Functional Medicine Approach
“We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls.” Facebook said that. Not some…
Breaking the Trauma Cycle
New Psychedelics Research is Transforming Mental Health Treatment
New research in psychedelic medicine shows promise for breaking through trauma patterns that traditional treatments can’t reach.
Breathwork for Stress Relief
8 Science–Backed Techniques to Calm Your Nervous System
The Power of Your Breath Nature’s Stress Relief Tool Is stress your constant companion? You’re not alone….
WARNING: Stress Is Sabotaging Your Body’s Detox System
(And Your Doctor Has No Idea)
Feeling stuck despite “trying everything”? The missing link might be in your stress response.
The Triangle of Health | Part 1
Your Best Year Yet: Stop Struggling & Start Thriving
Discover the 3 Simple Changes to Transform Your Health in 2025
3 Simple things tend to get us stuck … and they can also get us unstuck!
Your Hormones in Harmony | Part 2
Cortisol
The King of All Hormones
The monarch of our hormonal hierarchy, cortisol, is an unsung hero when it’s in balance, but when it’s out of whack? It can turn your body into a realm of chaos.
Inflammation
The Underlying Cause of Chronic Disease
Inflammation is a normal response of our body’s immune system … but it can sometimes run amok, leading to all kinds of problems.
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…
Top 10 Myths About Cancer
Note This Article has been updated. We all are affected by cancer – directly or indirectly. But…
Top 10 Myths About Heart Disease
Note: This article was updated (April 22, 2024). There is much new research on heart health and…
Cardiovascular Disease | Part 2
Screening for Heart Disease
Last week we started our discussion on cardiovascular disease, the number one killer in our country. We…
Cardiovascular Disease | Part 1
The Cause of Cardiovascular Disease
Over the last several years, we seem to have lost sight of the most common killer in…
Hormone SERIES Progesterone 1 of 2
When I began studying medicine in 1996, I was told that after a woman had a hysterectomy…