Renew Total Body Wellness Center

11/10/2025

💉 Discover the healing power of Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP)! Harnessing your body's own healing power, PRP injections stimulate tissue repair and promote joint regeneration, offering relief and improved mobility. Say goodbye to joint discomfort and get your active lifestyle back!

✨Ready to step back into pain-free living? Read more on our website or give us a call at 217-864-2700.

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11/06/2025

🍂 Thankful Thursday at Renew Medical Spa! 🍂

Take a little time for YOU this season! 🌟
✨ Chemical Peels – $80
✨ Facials – $65

These exclusive offers are valid today only (11/6/25) — and yes, you can purchase them as a gift certificate for someone special! 💝

Treat yourself (or a friend!) to glowing, refreshed skin.
📍 Stop by Renew Medical Spa or call us to grab this one-day deal before it’s gone! 217-864-2700

11/04/2025

Ozone therapy is a holistic treatment that boosts your immune system, reduces inflammation, and supports better circulation by increasing oxygen levels in the body. 🌬️💧

Whether you’re dealing with chronic fatigue, pain, or immune issues, Ozone therapies can offer relief by encouraging the body’s natural healing processes. Curious about how Ozone therapy works and if it's right for you? Learn more on our website or contact us to book a consultation. 💬✨

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10/28/2025

10/21/2025

To return your body to balance and begin the healing process, you must understand the underlying cause. At Renew Total Body Wellness, we do this through personalized, metabolic functional medicine.

With the root cause of your symptoms determined, the team at Renew develops a custom restoration program that includes lifestyle changes, nutritional changes, or improvements, supplying the body with missing nutrients or hormones, detoxing the body of chemicals and toxins, supporting the immune system, or releasing personal stress.

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10/16/2025

Ask us about PEMF Therapy next time you're in the office! The bioelectric energy of healthy cells are vital for metabolic processes. When the cells drop their electrical charge, they become sick and cause pain. Chronic pain is always defined by a low electrical charge. PEMF therapy restores the proper electrical charge to cells. Call 217-864-2700 to schedule a 10 minute session $40!

10/02/2025

Last up – Repair!

With all the gut stress you may have experienced by eating foods you are sensitive to and being subject to minor or major microbial infections, you could be sitting with a leaky gut, also known as intestinal permeability.

This means that the cells of the intestinal membrane become damaged due to inflammation and toxins. Where the cells are supposed to be glued together with tight junctions, the cells become separated, or leaky, and allow inflammatory endotoxins, food proteins, and other substances into closer contact with our immune system, and into our bloodstream contributing to the body-wide inflammatory issues.

The right foods can heal the gut lining. These include prebiotics and probiotics, fermented foods, homemade bone broth from grass-fed animals, l-glutamine (an amino acid), and aloe vera. There are some excellent gut repair formulations on the market that combine some of these ingredients. A favorite I use regularly is GI Revive, which is available here at the office. When supplementation is combined with fermented foods during our repair regimen then healing really kicks up!

This is the 4R Functional Medicine Approach - Remove, Replace, Reinoculate, and Repair. We hope you enjoyed it and learned something you can incorporate into your everyday life to help your gut heal so you can live your best life. ❤️

10/01/2025

Third step - Reinoculate!

You need to rebuild healthy gut bacteria!

Probiotics are part of this equation, but I believe fermented foods are even more important. There has been a huge amount of research on the human microbiome over the past decade, and as I mentioned on day 1, these bugs are vital to our best health! We know that rural people living an old-fashioned lifestyle have much higher GI microbial diversity than stressed-out city dwellers. Microbial diversity is considered a major component of our health.

At Renew, I put a lot of focus on our gut flora: I use probiotics in my nutrition practice, but what is much more powerful than that, is God’s plan for our body to heal with food. In this case FERMENTED foods. I’m a German kid and I grew up eating sauerkraut which has kept generations of Germans healthy. Every culture has a fermented food that goes way back in history except in the American melting pot where we have adopted those of other countries.

You may also have heard of prebiotics, which form another layer of nutritional GI health - these are the foods we are supposed to eat that feed the gut bacteria and keep them healthy and thriving. Think fruits, veggies, and other forms of fiber that our gut bacteria feed on and make gut fueling and repair nutrients from - like L-glutamine, for example. I regularly see people with low counts of these vital gut bacteria and that predisposes us to inflammatory health issues like autoimmune disease, heart disease, diabetes, and even cancer. This is how VITAL a healthy gut is!

09/30/2025

The second R in Dr. Rohde’s 4R Functional Medicine approach is - Replace!

Something you can do daily to help the digestion process is include the use of lemon juice or apple cider vinegar and/or a digestive enzyme before meals to help bring things into balance.

Dr. Rohde recommends slowing down at mealtimes and combining this pre-eating regimen of ACV and digestive enzymes with giving thanks for your food and practicing mindfulness while you eat. We need to take time and stop life’s activity, so our body is in a state of “rest and digest” or in a parasympathetic state which is the anticipatory phase of digestion and prepares your body to release the enzymes you need to properly digest your nourishing foods.

Eating in the car on the way to the kids' next sporting activity is a recipe for a gut health disaster! This can put you in the fight or flight state, or sympathetic state, which prevents digestion by channeling blood flow away from our gut - when it’s needed the most. When we are not mindful of our food when we eat it, we generally don’t produce enough salivary enzymes, stomach acid, digestive enzymes, and churning of our stomach to digest our food properly.

Tomorrow we'll go over the third R in Dr. Rohde's 4R Functional Medicine approach. Any guess what it is?

09/29/2025

Gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction is the number one problem that Dr Rohde finds in his patients daily.

GI health is linked to what we eat and drink, where we live, who we hang out with, how much we sleep, what type of exercise we do, the stress in our lives, and who blessed us with our genetics.

If your gut is unhealthy, you can’t efficiently make the brain chemicals you need to deal with stress and symptoms of anxiety and/or depression surface. Similarly, you can’t heal your brain and nervous system if you can’t absorb healthy oils to make healthy cell walls.

Over the next four days Dr. Rohde is sharing four time-tested physiological methods of improving gut health that he uses on a regular basis called the 4R Functional Medicine Approach.

Up first, Remove!

Remove refers to two things that potentially should be removed from our body. The first is foods you may be sensitive to. Two common foods, wheat and dairy, can be hard for many people to completely digest. This drives inflammation into the gut and your entire body. Our gut-based immunity becomes irritated by regular consumption of these foods. It is possible to test for these and other sensitivities via IgG testing at specialist labs and/or by elimination testing.

The second thing you want to remove from your body is ‘bugs’. Your gut is loaded with trillions of bacteria and has lots of microbial activity - making nutrients, breaking down nutrients, making brain chemicals, etc. Unfortunately, when things are out of balance, overgrowth, or opportunistic microorganisms multiply and can include bacteria, yeasts, viruses, and parasites. Small amounts of very invasive bugs and large amounts of less invasive bugs can be enough to throw the GI tract into an inflammatory state, potentially causing all sorts of problems. Safe and specific specialized anti-microbial strategies are available to clear out the “bad” bugs but safeguard and nourish the “good” bugs.

Tomorrow we’ll talk about something you can do daily so the “bad” bugs can’t thrive.