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We combine alternative and holistic treatment options with traditional medicine in order to get the best long term outcomes for our patients. We invite you to explore our site, shop our online store, or just call to learn how we can help you. Find out how to stop treating only symptoms, and to start increasing your vitality by managing the root cause of your health issue.

08/07/2022

Stress is almost synonymous with our modern lifestyles. We experience external stressors from our jobs, family responsibilities, financial worries, and many other places, then compound them with unhealthy lifestyle choices. The result is an epidemic of stress and increased risk for chronic diseases.

We can take control of our minds and bodies through breathwork and meditation techniques that can help us tap into our innate inner power.

This technique is a super simple and effective way to calm your body down and find a moment of pause in your busy day. It only takes minutes. I encourage you to do it right now if possible.

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07/30/2022

Simply put, eczema becomes a sign that your body is inflamed. The solution, then, becomes figuring what’s wrong inside your body and reducing that inflammation, NOT slathering potentially dangerous stuff onto your skin.

The root cause of eczema is a disturbance in your immune system. Your body is overreacting to something attacking you or inside you.

Let me be more specific. If I had to narrow down eczema to two primary causes, I would say: Leaky gut or abnormal gut flora.

1. Try an elimination diet. The two most common and harmful food sensitivities are gluten and dairy.

2. Eat plenty of wild-caught fish, grass finished beef and a colorful array of plant foods, and use spices like turmeric liberally. Fish oil and curcumin are among my favorite anti-inflammatory supplements.

3. Prebiotics, probiotics and digestive enzymes are among the things I use to normalize healthy gut flora. Please keep in mind it may become necessary to work with a Functional Medicine practitioner to address gut issues, but removing food sensitivities and incorporating gut-healing nutrients are entirely within your power.

Restoring normal gut flora reduces overall immune activation and many inflammatory diseases including asthma, eczema, rhinitis and inflammatory bowel disease.

4. Studies show sleep loss fuels the flames of inflammation, exacerbating eczema and other conditions. That’s among the many reasons you want to aim for eight hours of quality, uninterrupted sleep every night.

And make sure to supplement daily with fish oil, evening primrose oil, and vitamins D and A.

5. Studies show regular exercise reduces inflammation and boosts your immune system. You can try yoga, go for a walk, hike, or bike ride.

6. Besides making you absolutely miserable, studies link chronic stress levels with inflammation. Whether you do meditation, deep breathing, yoga or another form of stress reduction, make it a priority and do it regularly.

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07/15/2022

Exercise creates a brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), which is basically Miracle Grow for your brain. When you exercise, your brain becomes more elastic. Exercise also helps to improve your mood, boost your energy, and reduce overall stress in your body and mind.⁣⁣
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One of my favorite benefits of exercise is that it improves insulin sensitivity, which is the biggest contributor to advance aging. Exercise actually makes your cells and muscles more sensitive to insulin so you don’t need as much. Less insulin means less dangerous visceral belly fat. ⁣⁣
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Daily movement also enhances detoxification by stimulating the colon and releasing toxins through your sweat. It boosts detoxification of environmental chemicals. Vigorous exercise will help you work up a sweat, but gentle exercise keeps your circulation going and flushes out all the toxic fluids that build up in your lymphatic system. Even just lying on your back and putting your legs straight up against the wall for 20 minutes can make a huge difference. ⁣⁣
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Clearly, daily movement has whole-body benefits. These are just a few of them. The question becomes, how do we incorporate movement daily? Here are three simple ways. ⁣⁣
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Make it a priority and think ahead. Every single day I schedule time in my calendar to work out. If I don’t schedule it, I won’t do it. Also, make it easy.
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Do it first thing in the morning. We all know how easily pushing exercise to the back burner and subsequently neglecting it can become. Do your daily exercise first thing in the morning to jump-start your metabolism and set your day on the right course.⁣⁣
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Make it fun. I encourage you to explore all the fun things you may enjoy and save exercise for those times when you just can’t find a way to play on your own or with someone else. Vary up your routine and above all, make it fun.
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Ever since I’ve made movement part of my life, I notice that I’m happier, calmer, stronger, and I just feel good. If you could put exercise into a pill, it would be a blockbuster drug. So I encourage you to get up today and move your body, even if it’s just for a few minutes.⁣⁣

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05/14/2022

As we head into hot summer weather… over 50 sunscreens were tested by Valisure and found to contain benzene last year, a contaminant that causes blood disorders like anemia, leukemia and other cell-based cancers following chronic exposure and is also a reproductive toxin. I’m posting again because some, but not all of the brands and contaminated batches were recalled, and these are brands you should double-check. Page 12 of the document in the first link has the lot numbers of the contaminated products so you can check what you may already have and avoid if you are shopping for more. It would be bad enough if this was the only dangerous chemical, but there are more.

FDA officials are currently in the process of overhauling its guidelines for sunscreen production in the United States and two more ingredients, tromaline aline salicylate and PABA — are no longer recognized as safe. And an active sunscreen ingredient known as oxybenzone has become increasingly condemned by health providers and ecologists alike. It's been "noted to ruin coral reefs and have negative effects on our endocrine system," according to Kenneth Mark, MD.

Experts tell us that the safest sunscreens are those that use zinc or titanium dioxide as the active ingredient. I prefer zinc. As it happens, there are a couple of those on the recall list. I stick to brands that are organic these days to minimize the risks. Two brands I trust and like are and . What's your favorite organic sunscreen?
Be well

READ the full list of contaminated sunscreens here:https://gmofreeusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Valisure_Benzene-in-Sunscreen-and-After-sun-Care-Products.pdf

Read the list of sunscreens that tested NEGATIVE for benzene contamination:https://gmofreeusa.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Valisure_attachment-a-table-5-of-valisure-fda-citizen-petition-on-sunscreen-v2.pdf

Read more about sunscreens and the recall: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/beauty/anti-aging/a37273260/benzene-in-sunscreen

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05/09/2022

While inflammation is a natural part of life that can serve a beneficial role, we start to see disease when inflammatory pathways are constantly activated. That’s why many brain symptoms—like brain fog, anxiety, memory loss, and more—can actually be caused by systemic inflammation.

The foods we eat, the toxins we’re exposed to, our stress levels, and our genetics are just some of the many aspects that can impact the body—and the brain’s—propensity towards inflammation.

If you look at most processed foods you’ll notice two things: they’re missing healthy fats and protein. That’s intentional because sugar and starch are addicting and keep us eating without ever feeling full.

The easiest way to avoid the food that creates brain fog is to start focusing on eating real, whole foods, not food-like substances. For example, an avocado doesn’t come in a box, package, or can, and it doesn’t have an ingredient list or a nutrition facts label. It is just an avocado.

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02/24/2022

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I always say, if exercise could be put in a pill, it would be the biggest blockbuster medication of all time. Here’s why:⁣⁣
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Better insulin sensitivity. Exercise makes your cells and muscles more sensitive to insulin so you don’t need as much. Less insulin means less belly fat.⁣⁣
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Reduced stress. I often hear patients say a good workout relieves excess stress. That’s because exercise reduces cortisol – the stress hormone. Too much cortisol and you become insulin resistant and store belly fat. Too much cortisol also makes you crave sugar and carbs and seek comfort food.⁣⁣
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Improved brain health. Your brain on exercise performs so much better. Exercise improves memory, learning, and concentration. Vigorous exercise is a better antidepressant than Prozac. Exercise helps to improve your mood, boost your energy, and reduce overall stress in your body and mind.⁣⁣
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Reduced risk for chronic disease. Exercise does this through several mechanisms. It protects your heart and reduces your risk of heart attack and stroke. It reduces inflammation (the cause of almost every disease of aging). And it balances hormones, therefore reducing breast and other common cancers.⁣⁣
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Enhanced detoxification. Besides stimulating the colon, intense exercise allows your body to release toxins through your skin. It boosts the detoxification of environmental chemicals. Vigorous exercise will help you work up a sweat, but gentle exercise keeps your circulation going and flushes out all the toxic fluids that build up in your lymphatic system. Even just lying on your back and putting your legs straight up against the wall for 20 minutes can make a huge difference. ⁣⁣

Slowed aging process. If you want to turn back the clock figuratively, exercise becomes absolutely crucial. I will never forget a movie I saw in my 8th grade gym class about Larry Lewis. He would run five miles back and forth to work every day at (are you ready for this?) 105 years of age!⁣⁣
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Improved s*xual function. Increased circulation and more energy are two of many reasons that consistent exercise can spark up your s*x life.

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02/21/2022

Nearly half of Americans live a sedentary lifestyle and 88% don’t get enough exercise.

Movement is one of the best tools we have to reduce our risk of chronic disease, and it can be as simple as just going out for a walk.

This can have an extraordinary effect on the rest of your day, jump-starting your metabolic engine and balancing your brain chemistry, blood sugar, and hormones so you make better choices.

Start with 30 minutes of brisk walking — or even slow walking, if that’s all you can do. If you can only do five minutes, start with that and do it twice a day and then work up slowly over the week.

Walking is easy, it’s accessible to almost everyone, and it doesn’t require any memberships or fancy equipment.

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02/20/2022

Take these four steps and apply them to your life, and your brain will thank you later down the road. We can grow old and wise while still keeping our brain health and our young spirit alive!

Eat a Brain Healthy Diet. Our brains are made up of 60 percent fat, and half of that fat is omega-3s. Docosahexanoic acid (DHA), an omega-3 fat abundant in gray matter, plays a role in memory, learning, and cognition. A study found that high DHA intake is associated with a greater resilience to Alzheimer’s in adults with the APOE4 gene.

Eat healthy fats such as small fish, quality olive oil, coconut oil, grass fed butter, and avocado. In addition to fat, you need adequate protein from high-quality sources (wild-caught fish, pasture-raised meat and eggs) and a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables for their phytochemicals and fiber, which feed our good gut bugs, strengthen our intestinal barrier, and help lower inflammation. We also want to cook with spices like rosemary, turmeric, and oregano for their amazing disease-fighting benefits.

Movement. Exercise boosts nitric oxide, a molecule that enhances blood flow and promotes neuroplasticity by producing brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BFNF), which is essentially miracle grow for your brain. The best exercise is a type of movement you enjoy, like a 30-minute walk, riding your bike, yoga, hiking, digging in your garden, dancing, or playing with your grandchildren. Don’t be afraid to make it fun!

Stress management. Cortisol, our stress hormone, binds to receptors on the hippocampus, the region of the brain that’s responsible for memory and wears it down. That’s why stress management is so important. Journaling, mindful meditation, chiropractic adjustments, exercise, or working with a licensed therapist can help you find ways to better manage your stress.

Sleep. Sleep is critical as we age, because so much happens and needs to happen while we’re at rest. Our immune system is hard at work at night recharging, repairing, and clearing away damaged DNA and cells. The glymphatic system (our brain’s immune system) does the same thing, plus it helps get rid of neurotoxic waste like amyloid-beta plaques that gunk up our brain and cause inflammation.

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02/17/2022

Even with world-renowned healthcare, 90% of Americans are still walking around with undiagnosed insulin resistance. Why? Because most doctors aren’t testing for it. Instead, they test fasting blood sugar, a measure of the glucose in your blood at least eight hours after your last meal.

The problem is, no action is taken until your fasting blood glucose reaches 110 mg/dl, and even then, we’re usually just told to “watch it”. What this really means is that the patient is becoming (or already is) insulin resistant.

When insulin resistance goes on untreated, your blood sugar will continue to creep higher and higher until it reaches 126 mg/dl and your doctor diagnoses you with type 2 diabetes and puts you on medication. At this point, your risk for comorbidities has already gone way up.

So instead of testing the final destination (high blood sugar), we need to assess the journey it took to get there (insulin resistance), and that doesn’t happen overnight, folks. It takes years, sometimes even decades, to develop.

Ask your doctor about testing your fasting insulin levels. That way, high insulin (anything greater than 5 uIU/mL fasting and above 30 uIU/mL after a meal) can be detected early and you can intercept with diet and lifestyle changes to drive that number down and reverse your chances of developing or worsening, chronic disease.

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02/13/2022

Our bodies normally produce insulin in response to food in our stomach, particularly sugar.⁣⁣
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We once thought that insulin’s only role was to help sugar enter the cells to be metabolized, combining stored energy with oxygen and creating the energy we use every day to run our bodies. Now we recognize insulin as a major switching station, or control hormone, for many processes. It is a major storage hormone – fat storage that is.⁣⁣
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Here is what too much insulin really does to your body and health:⁣⁣
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Try as you may, as long as your insulin levels are high you will fight a losing battle for weight loss. It acts on your brain to increase appetite and specifically an appetite for sugar.⁣ It increases LDL cholesterol, lowers HDL cholesterol, raises triglycerides and increases your blood pressure. Insulin resistance causes 50% of all reported cases of high blood pressure.⁣⁣
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It stimulates the growth of cancer cells.⁣⁣
It increases inflammation and oxidative stress and ages your brain.⁣⁣
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It also causes s*x hormone problems and can lead to infertility, hair growth where you don’t want it, hair loss where you don’t want to lose it, acne, and low testosterone in men and more. It also leads to mood disturbances.⁣⁣
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Balancing blood sugar and correcting insulin resistance is well within our reach. ⁣⁣
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My goal is to make your metabolism more efficient, to make your cells more intelligent and cooperative, not resistant. In other words, you will need much less insulin to accomplish the task of balancing your blood sugar.⁣⁣
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While I want to tell you how to balance your stress hormones, thyroid function and all your s*x hormones, and all your brain and mood chemicals that will take a few more lessons! For now I want to show you how you can reset your metabolism of sugar and insulin by stopping the things that knock you off balance, and providing the things that put you balance in balance allowing you to thrive.⁣

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02/05/2022

Despite what popular magazines might say, if you think you can exercise your way to weight loss, I am sorry to say you are in for a big disappointment.⁣
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Using exercise to lose weight without changing your diet is asking for failure. You can change your diet and lose weight, but if you exercise and keep your diet the same, you may gain some muscle, improve endurance, and be healthier overall, but you won’t shed many pounds.⁣
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However, combining a whole, unprocessed diet with the right exercise does wonders for your health. I don’t want you to get the impression that I don’t think exercise is important.⁣
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In fact, if I could put something in a pill that would reverse almost every chronic disease, it would be exercise. If exercise could be put in a pill, it would be the biggest blockbuster medication of all time.⁣
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Here are 7 reasons why exercise is still extremely important to our overall health:⁣
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1. Better insulin sensitivity.⁣
2. Reduced stress.⁣
3. Improved brain health.⁣
4. Reduced risk for chronic disease.⁣
5. Enhanced detoxification.⁣
6. Slowed aging process.⁣
7. Improved s*xual function.

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01/31/2022

Your body sends signals when it’s not getting enough good fats. ⁣⁣⁣
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That’s because the body uses the fat you eat to build cell walls. ⁣⁣⁣
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You have more than 10 trillion cells in your body, and every single one of them needs high-quality fat.⁣
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The higher-quality the fat you eat, the better your brain will function. ⁣
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I eat fat with every meal, and I’ve never felt better. The right fats can improve your mood, skin, hair, and nails, while protecting you against Type 2 diabetes, dementia, cancer, and much more.⁣⁣⁣
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Among my favorite sources of fat include:⁣⁣⁣
Avocados⁣⁣⁣
Nuts & seeds⁣⁣⁣
Fatty fish that are rich in omega-3 fats⁣⁣⁣
Extra virgin olive oil ⁣⁣⁣
Grass-fed or sustainably raised animal products ⁣⁣⁣

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