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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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Body Image in the Filter Age. A Functional Medicine Approach

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.

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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.

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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

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: Mindfulness & Breathing

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

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…

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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…

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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…

Woman working under stress holding head

Hormone SERIES Progesterone 1 of 2

When I began studying medicine in 1996, I was told that after a woman had a hysterectomy…