Less Sugar with the Antibiotics As more and more people recognize the risks of antibiotics’ effects on our gut bacteria, this article offers one more tool to protect our colon bacteria when antibiotics are unavoidable. While natural therapies can boost our immunity and fight some mild to moderate infections, at times severe infections just need…
Mold Symptoms: Not Just in Your Head So many struggling lives enter our doors, searching for answers to chronic mental health problems after having been told it was just all in their heads. Many other providers have advised them to accept lifelong medication and lifelong symptoms. Some of them have heard from therapists and counselors…
Lyme Patients Are Not Crazy How does such a tiny bacterium in such a tiny insect cause so many trouble? Lyme disease, like other biotoxin illnesses, inflicts a myriad array of symptoms. When Borrelia burgdorferi arrives in the bloodstream, fresh from a tick or some other blood-biting insect, it brings symptoms and disruptions to practically…
Don’t Inflame Your Heart With Daily Life When we are older, keeping healthy heart requires more than just the standard, ‘Watch cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar.’ So many people allow damage to build up in their hearts early in life; too many let inflammation from stress and lifestyle choices smolder in their daily lives.…
We are all given names at birth, and we spend our lives in society naming things, disitnguishing different people, principles, approaches, and practices. That process applies to medical fields. We separate pediatrics, the care of children, from other fields, like Internal Medicine (for adults) or Family Medicine (for everyone). We then go further into specialties…
With somewhere between 1 in 15 and 1 in 30 children now having an ADHD diagnosis, we would hope that better therapies would be available to prevent the disruption in achievement, well-being, and relationships. This review of the state of ADHD genetics answers some of those ‘Why?’ questions, the question which explain our current approach…
(Some reminders are worth repeating so I am running this reminder about where mold hides in our lives.) Mold Detox Can Be Challenging Caring for patients with mold toxicity can be a challenging task, faced with not just body-problems but problems in their environments. In caring for their bodies and the symptoms they are experiencing,…
A preliminary vote just got cast in the debate between functional medicine’s dietary emphasis in treating IBD (Inflammatory Bowel Disease) and conventional GI doctors who dismiss the diet’s role, and it was cast for functional medicine’s side. Further, for those who hate spinach, the good news just keeps getting better: the oxalates it contains may…
None of us like pain or like getting a surgery, and we can all agree that we want as little pain as possible after any necessary surgery. This research suggests that getting our vitamin D levels checked and optimized before needing surgery, despite what a recent mainstream medical association said (see links at end). Optimizing…
In the old days, understanding toxicity meant studying a toxin’s effects on our metabolism, but today we know that the roughly 4,500 different types of bacteria in our GI tract also matter to the toxin’s effects. While many of the present world’s identified chemicals may not directly affect our metabolic processes, their effects on the…