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Are you suffering from long-haul COVID or other chronic illness? Hoping to improve your metabolic health for longevity or performance?  Ozone therapy may be just what you’ve been looking for.   This past year has really illuminated the connection between metabolic health and the likelihood of bad

If you’ve been reading this blog you know that I’ve talked about genomics-based precision medicine previously. I am currently wrapping up an amazing one-year fellowship in genomics-based precision medicine through Wild Health. The more I learn, the more I’m convinced I am that genomics play a crucial

Anyone else feel like they need a reboot? A Stellate Ganglion Block (or SGB) can act as a reset for the sympathetic nervous system. We talk a lot about the importance of spending as much time as possible in the parasympathetic state, also known as the state

Did you know that different colors of foods can affect your health in different areas of your body?  New research is showing that different color pigments in food correlate with different areas in the body and can affect the health and function of those areas. We have

Stuck on a health decision? Genomics based precision medicine might hold clues to the answer.  Got questions about optimal health? Some common ones I get: How can I optimize physical performance?  Which foods will be most supportive for me? (Vegan? Paleo? Keto? Mediterranean? Carnivore? Or something else?)

How much sleep do you need? Sleep is one of the most important contributors to health and performance. But our culture incentivizes productivity and work over rest, and so it’s also one of the most overlooked.  As a whole, we grossly underestimate our need for sleep.  Why

What is methylation and why does it matter?  Did you know that you might not be healing from your injuries or from COVID because of poor methylation? The good news is that there are steps you can take to improve your methylation, which is directly related to

How much sugar is too much? How much do you know about added sugar? Do you know that…   There is added sugar in 74% of packaged foods in the grocery store   The average american consumes 66 pounds of added sugar every year   Added sugar

How can I lose weight? This is one of the questions I’m most commonly asked.  There are some benefits to maintaining a healthy weight. Weight regulation or weight loss can play a role in preventing injury, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, autoimmunity and chronic illnesses.  Many of us think

How are you supposed to optimize your performance when you’re peeing yourself?  Urinary incontinence is a common challenge for women as we get older. Studies show at least 50% of post-menopausal women suffer from some type of incontinence. Odds are, someone close to you is affected.    It

How does sitting in front of an infrared panel help you heal?  Happy Holiday and Happy Winter Solstice to everyone in the Northern Hemisphere! As this is the darkest week of the year, it seems like a good time to talk about the importance of light for

How you can keep your cells charged and exercised with PEMF? Have you ever thought about exercising your cells?  Our heart and lungs circulate more oxygen and carbon dioxide when we exert ourselves. In a similar process, when magnetic fields come in contact with cells, they are

What is the best diet to eat? The best diet to eat depends on a lot of different factors. I might recommend a certain diet based on the symptoms a person has, a diagnosis for a certain condition or a number of other factors. I might recommend

What is ketamine and how can it help you? Let’s talk about ketamine.  Ketamine has been used for acute pain and sedation for years. More recently, though, we’re realizing ketamine can be incredibly effective in treating a range of pathologies, including depression and neuropathic pain.  Ketamine has

NAD+, NAD BR+ and Why They Matter Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) has been getting a lot of attention recently for its relationship to aging. For those of us who are new to NAD, it’s an amazing, naturally occurring coenzyme that plays a crucial role in our health,

What is health coaching?  Functional medicine can give us crucial information to help us optimize our health. But information can only take us so far. Chronic disease, injuries and injury recovery are heavily influenced–if not primarily driven–by diet, lifestyle, and behavior. This means that the choices we

What is nutrition coaching?  Have you ever wondered what nutrition coaching involves? With so much nutrition information out there on the internet and books, a lot of people think they have their eating figured out. A lot of people find it challenging to know if they are

What is functional medicine? Functional medicine looks for the root cause of symptoms and conventional medicine treats the symptoms.   Think of a large, old tree that has started to develop some disease. We might notice damaged and irregular branches and leaves.  How might we react? We could

What is integrative medicine? Integrative medicine is the umbrella under which all forms of healing with evidence lie.  Under the umbrella of integrative medicine is conventional medicine which is what most of us are most familiar with.  The development of integrative medicine was initially driven by consumer

Should I get a Flu Vaccine? As the days grow shorter and colder, there is a lot of speculation as to what flu season will bring.  On one hand, there is potential for COVID-19 and influenza to spike simultaneously, bringing us a “twindemic” or two concurrent pandemics.  

Why does gut health matter? Inflammation is at the root of most diseases and chronic injuries and an unhealthy microbiome and increased gut permeability increases systemic inflammation. A significant portion of our immune system, called the gut associated lymphatic tissue (GALT), resides in the gut.  The lining

What are Regenerative Injections? Regenerative medicine is an old form of healing that has been around since antiquity.  Roman doctors would poke hot needles into the shoulders of injured gladiators to create injury and stimulate healing. When we injure ourselves, our body sends out large doses of

Hormones Normal is not optimal. The standard American diet is highly inflammatory and increases our chances of developing most diseases. It’s common, yet far from ideal.  Hormone levels are similar. “Normal” hormone levels are often derived from data on old and sick patients. These levels may be

Hydrodissection for Chronic Pain Often times nagging injuries and chronic pain are caused by nerves not working right.  Imagine the power cord to your computer getting bent and squeezed to the point that the wires inside it start to fray. Eventually, the power cord doesn’t work and

Grounding Research has revealed that electrically conductive contact of the human body with the surface of the earth (otherwise called grounding or earthing) produces beneficial effects on health and physiology. The earth is a giant electromagnetic field and humans have bioelectromagnetic fields. By connecting our fields to

Vitamin D & COVID   This year, many medical researchers have been studying ways to prevent and treat COVID-19. New research has been published at an unprecedented pace, often passing over the peer review process, an important step to ensure the research was done well. This week,

Simple Breathing for Stress Reduction   It’s hard to believe that it’s already September. I hope this finds you and your friends and family doing well despite all of the challenges 2020 has brought us.   Starting today, you can look forward to a weekly email and blog