Over 70% of adult Americans are now overweight, with nearly 40% considered clinically obese. Currently accepted dietary methods, based on the idea of "calories in and calories out," often fail to work. Successful weight management strategies and integrative medicine emphasize the need for a nutrient-dense diet with an overall, holistic sense of health.
Read MoreOne in three Americans are facing a chronic skin disease. The good news is it common. The bad news is conventional medicine doesn’t address the root cause and has no cure. Our skin is the magnifying glass of what is actually going on inside your body. Learn about an integrative medicine approach to healing your skin from the inside out.
Read MoreThe evidence from the research suggests that poor sleep increases hunger and negatively affects metabolism, immune system, and hormone balance.
Read MoreLearn how lifestyle habits and diet changes can boost your immune system and keep COVID away.
Read MoreInterstitial Cystitis (IC) is diagnosed as a chronic bladder pain condition. IC responds well to dietary changes to support more alkaline blood and urine to help manage symptoms.
Read MoreIt is well established scientifically that chronic inflammation can result from trauma in conjunction to an unbalanced nutrient-poor diet and environmental toxins. Negative emotions, thoughts, feelings, and ideas are also one of the biggest drivers to inflammation and possibly more deadly. Learn more how anger is a deadly toxin.
Read MoreAre you always tired but can't "find" anything that will make you feel truly rested? Chronic fatigue is unmistakably physical and debilitating. It can severely impair your day-to-day activities, responsibilities, and new year's resolutions.
Treating Chronic Fatigue Syndrome with integrative medicine is essential to get to the root cause and manage symptoms for a happier, more functional life.
A major factor in determining our mood and how we feel is the result of the food we eat. Learn about foods which can boost your mood and health.
Read MoreIt’s something we’ve all heard about, but what is IBS? Dr. Payal Bhandari discusses the symptoms and explains how common irritable bowel syndrome is.
Read MoreDid you know that patients infected with COVID are markedly low in gut bacteria? Enhancing our microbiome can boost our immune system and keep us healthy.
Read MoreIt is easy to test sex hormones after menopause or in men in middle age, and supplement with hormones based on inevitable deficiencies. However, this approach is akin to placing a bandaid on the problem, rather than getting to the root cause. If your goal is achieving optimal well-being, look at how your whole body functions and the safest and most effective approach to permanently resolve your symptoms.
Read MoreDid you know that the best way to reduce inflammation in your body is to pay close attention to what triggering it. Making changes to your lifestyle one step at a time will make a huge difference.
Try the following tips on how to reduce inflammation, improve your arthritis, and stay healthy!
Read MoreDid you know 90% of infants today in America are missing key bacterial species inside their gut critical for their development? Learn more about this alarming epidemic and what you can do about it here!
Read MoreWidespread, decade use of antibiotics in both livestock husbandry and human healthcare has led to trace amounts of these drugs and their byproducts ending up in everyone's food.
Read MoreMany major skincare brands (including sunscreen) contain benzene, a cancer-causing compound. If you want to avoid possible exposure to such chemicals, check out some natural ways to prevent skin cancer that are good alternatives to sunscreen over at our blog!
Read MoreOur guide to the most common allergies and how to treat them naturally. There are many things you can do to relieve symptoms, strengthen your immune system, and help prevent your allergies from reappearing. We review the top integrative treatments for allergies that avoid the brain fog one can get from conventional antihistamines.
Read MoreIn a recent study, children with autism benefited from removing excess sugar, wheat, dairy and saturated fat from animal protein, and from intermittent fasting. Read more about an integrative approach to treating autism.
Read MoreAncient Medicines has long asserted that the central tenant to good health is good digestion. When digestion is poor, the vital energy force within our body becomes depleted. We may clinically experience decreased energy, sluggishness, gut issues, brain fog, rashes, body aches, and numerous other symptoms reflective of underlying organ dysfunction.
Read MoreThe stress response has long been emphasized as a short-lived response. However, modern science is proving anything but. In truth, the stress response is a long-lived phenomenon of the modern world. Learn how our lived experiences can be passed on to future generations and how YOU can change the narrative in a fast-paced world.
Read MoreLearn how taking a break from actively digesting food does the body good. The scientific literature supports the notion that longevity is associated with fasting. “Intermittent Fasting” or “Fasting Mimicking Diets” are patterns of eating that essentially give the body (1) a period of rest and (2) a chance to use an anti-inflammatory fuel source known as ketones. As counterintuitive as it may sound, time without food is vital to our health and wellbeing.
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