Autoimmune Disease Treatment: A Functional Medicine Guide

Sarah brought four folders of lab work to our first visit. Three specialists, two years, and nobody had connected a single result to another. That’s the pattern I see most in my practice: normal-looking lab reports for a person who clearly isn’t normal after my diagnosis. Real Autoimmune Disease Treatment starts before a label is […]
Man made Prednisone. God made SPMs.

Inflammation is the body’s natural immune response to injury, infection, or harmful stimuli such as toxins or pathogens. It involves increased blood flow, immune cell activation, and the release of chemicals that cause redness, heat, swelling, pain, and sometimes loss of function in the affected area. While acute inflammation helps heal and protect tissues by […]
Death Begins in the Colon. Find out who is plotting your demise.

Unhealthy balance of the bacteria that reside in the gastrointestinal tract is one of the most important causes of chronic unwellness and disease. Virtually any condition you can think of may be related, at least in part, to an unhealthy population of bacteria in the gut. This state of imbalance, called dysbiosis, is the rule […]
Are “Leaky Gums” the Cause of Your Poor Health?

Unfriendly bacteria living in your mouth not only influence tooth and gum disease, and bad breath. These organisms may hold the key to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, Alzheimer’s, cancer, autoimmunity, and more! It is both amazing and common sense that the function of one part of the body effects every other part of […]
NAC is being studied in COVID-19. Should you take it?

N-Acetyl Cysteine (NAC) is a sulfur-containing amino acid with a multitude of beneficial health effects. And yes, it does have application for COVID-19 or I would find it difficult spending time on It right now. NAC has been the subject of several studies on a number of viruses, going back decades. It has been found […]
You call that healthcare? The pathetic conventional approach to Hashimoto’s.

Natural Thyroid Support is the Way to Go If all you do for your Hashimoto’s thyroiditis is take thyroid hormone replacement, you need to know that everything is not fine. Hashimoto’s is an alarm that your body is under attack – and a prescription is not the answer. Personalized natural thyroid support is. Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, […]
Don’t let your M.D. tell you that you don’t have a gluten problem until you have this test!

So much chronic unwellness can be attributed to gluten sensitivity and to leaky gut syndrome. I have written on both of these subjects before. Fatigue, pain, brain fog, depression, digestive symptoms, asthma, kidney disease, sore tongue, and vitamin D deficiency are a sample of the hundreds of possible manifestations of gluten sensitivity, which can affect […]
Prevent and Reverse Autoimmune Disease!

Natural Autoimmune Disease Treatment can be Implemented Early No matter how you currently feel, chances are that a scientifically-tailored personalized lifestyle medicine program can help you become healthier. The fact is that unhealthy changes can occur in the body decades before signs and symptoms manifest. This is certainly true of many autoimmune conditions. By the […]
The Cause of All Disease?

Have you been tested for the condition that may stand between you and a healthy future? For over two decades I have been excoriated by conventional medicine for evaluating and treating patients for “leaky gut syndrome”. Thanks to a tsunami of published research, there is no scientific basis for denying this condition any longer. The […]
Is your cholesterol too low?

Cholesterol: Curse of Modern Society or Misunderstood Scapegoat? If there is one lab number people know about themselves, it’s got to be their blood cholesterol value. This should not be the case. There exists much misinformation when it comes to serum cholesterol, its role in cardiovascular disease and its impact on health. I can’t say […]