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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 outside critic—Facebook’s own researchers, buried in internal documents that only came out because of a whistleblower. Among teens who reported suicidal thoughts, 13% of British users and 6% of American users traced the desire to kill themselves to…
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. In today’s high–pressure world, chronic stress has become an unwelcome companion for many of us. It wreaks havoc on our gut, sleep, hormones, immune system—pretty much everything. If you’ve followed this blog, you already know all of this……
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.
Getting Unstuck: Introducing the Triangle of Health…
3 Simple things tend to get us stuck … and they can also get us unstuck!
The Triangle of Health: Stress
What is stress? Is it just getting stuck in traffic? Or is it something deeper, affecting every aspect of your health?
8 Lifehacks to Reduce Stress
Stress is an unavoidable part of life, but it doesn’t have to control you. In this article, I’d like to share eight practical, science-backed hacks that can help you manage stress more effectively. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed or just looking to improve your stress management routine, these strategies are designed to empower you with simple,…
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: 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: 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: 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: The Power of Yoga
Stress is the elephant in the room that people aren’t talking much about in the medical world today. We now know about so many ways that stress can affect our health. Unmanaged stress is associated with an increased incidence of cancer and heart disease. And did you also know that stress makes some medications less…
Top 10 Myths About Cancer
Note This Article has been updated. We all are affected by cancer – directly or indirectly. But why is it so prevalent these days? What can we do about it? As a functional medicine practitioner, I seek the root cause of disease; cancer is no exception. So today I’d like to address some of…