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Age Is Just a Number

Imagine the aging process in your body slowing down. Can we decelerate aging and live a vibrant life as we grow older? Wonder no more. We know that behaviors such…

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.

Detox | Part 4

Advanced Detoxification Techniques

  Would you like to learn about some of my go-to detoxification tools that I use with my patients?   Read This First First, I want to say that the…

Irritable Bowel Syndrome

Last week I talked generally about gastrointestinal disorders. Today I’d like to talk more specifically about irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS. IBS is more than just gas and bloating after…

The Cause of the Root Cause of Chronic Disease Part III: The Role of Gut Health

How does fasting positively affect your gut health and treat chronic disease? In the past couple of weeks, we’ve alluded to the idea that gut health plays a major role…

The Cause of the Root Cause of Chronic Disease Part I

In the future, the practice of medicine will focus on our cells – their function, metabolism, and senescence. So what are these things and why should you care? We have…

Healthy Heart text with healthy foods

Cardiovascular Disease | Part 3

Nutrients that Reduce Risk of Heart Disease

What does a personalized approach look like when working with an integrative functional medicine practitioner to prevent or treat cardiovascular disease? With the aim of reducing the risk of heart…

Femal Doctor performing checking the BP of a female patient

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 talked about many risk factors and the root causes of heart disease: inflammation,…

Hormone Series Insulin 1 of 3: Introducing Insulin and Insulin Resistance

Insulin is one of the top three hormones in the hormone hierarchy that affect all other hormones. The other hormones at the top of the hierarchy are cortisol (adrenal hormones)…

How To Prevent Alzheimer’s Disease

Now that you know what Alzheimer’s disease is and the different types, what are the basic things you can do now to help maintain your cognition and mental function? There…

Coconuts and coconut oil

Coconut Oil: Keto Diet Savior or Total Health Saboteur?

Coconut oil has been lauded as a healthy cure-all, but it might actually be making us sick.

Recommended Reading

Dr. Hartman’s Recommended Reading Unfortunately, many books are not helpful or even misleading. I’ve spent several years reading available popular books and have listed those I think will be helpful…

liver detoxification process

A 6–10 Week Detox Plan

In Part IV. Dr. Hartman outlines a 6–10 week detoxification plan.

Functional Medicine: A Primer

While we are increasingly hearing more about inflammation, few of us understand the good purposes inflammation plays in our body or when those good purposes move to dysfunction.