What upsets me is when women start gaining weight – perhaps after having children, during busy periods, or approaching menopause/perimenopause – and doctors run basic tests, find “nothing wrong,” and simply say, “Eat less and exercise more. You’ve had babies. You’re…
Our medical system has trained us to focus on a “break-fix” approach. We’ve stopped thinking about what is happening within us, focusing instead on what is happening TO us. This mindset extends to supplementation and nutrition too.We take supplements for…
Jane got really sick with the first wave of CV-19 in 2020 after a holiday in LA just before the lockdowns started. She was told she had post viral fatigue and was taking supplements and herbs from the local acupuncturist,…
Menstrual dysfunction is something we see regularly in the clinic and is unfortunately very misunderstood. Menstrual conditions are all very different.Not all of them include pain; however, each one is highly connected to something in the immune system. PCOS is not…
One of the most common things we hear in the clinic from our patients is the journey from one doctor to another for multiple health challenges. Many don’t get a diagnosis, or, may have one or two things come up…
She was chubbier than the other girls in high school. She couldn’t lose weight after having her girls. And as soon as she hit menopause, she was eating like a bird, exercising, doing everything right, and gaining weight. She was…
Yesterday, we had a woman come to us saying her doctor told her that her hives were a menopause symptom. Last week we spoke to a woman that was having trouble with her asthma.But, now two years after menopause, she…
Currently, bacteria overgrowth is in the hypothesis stages of development for gastrointestinal medicine. SIBO, small intestinal bacteria overgrowth, has been in the hypothesis stage since 1987. Whilst there hasn’t been much progress in the treatment of bacteria impairment, at least…
I spent several hours researching two medical doctors that dedicated their lives to treating psychiatric and psychological patients suffering from extreme setbacks using orthomolecular medicine. The word orthomolecular piqued my interest to learn more about these two doctors, as it’s…
Inflammation is one of the key triggers for joint pain and muscle aches.So what if joint pain and/or arthritic pain can also be triggered by bacteria’s in the body that further exacerbate the pain?What I find really interesting is the…