Herbal formulas (herein referred to as simply “herbs”), vitamins, and supplements can work incredibly well for treating a variety of health conditions when used properly. Keyword there is used properly. All herbs, vitamins, and supplements are designed to work at a therapeutic dosage. Too little, no effect or wrong effect. Too much, side effects…
If you’re going through small intestinal bacterial overgrowth (SIBO) treatment for the first time or the fourth time, you are probably feeling frustrated and worried it may come back or not go away completely. I have dealt with SIBO a number of times and treated many patients with this condition. I know how tough it can be!…
I started noticing a trend in my practice–while patients often reported feeling great and initially losing weight during a juice fast or when introducing juices, after several weeks or months they were reporting weight gain and increase in fatigue and appetite. This led me to do a bit more digging into what’s going on with…
Mayonnaise: Love it or hate it, you probably have an opinion Mayonnaise, if you were to make it at home, would consist of egg yolks, oil, vinegar, salt, lemon juice, and mustard. That’s it. Let’s break down those ingredients in terms of health. I don’t think anyone is going to put up a fight about…
Don’t panic about the American Heart Association’s (AHA) 2017 statement on coconut oil– this is the same organization that put out the junk science of the nineties saying everyone should be eating margarine and bread and avoiding fat. It led to an obesity and diabetes epidemic, which, ironically, is the true culprit behind heart disease. We…
Why olive oil is not the healthiest cooking oil As a lifelong olive oil user (like many of you), I was shocked to learn that stir-frying my veggies, pan-frying my salmon, and flash-roasting my root veggies in olive oil was not healthy. It turns out that olive is not the healthiest cooking oil when it…
We have become a society of people who want a pill to fix every ill. We can’t afford to be getting sick. Literally. We don’t have the time to miss work, we can’t take the pay cut, we don’t have enough sick days, we’re saving our few sick days for our summer vacation, etc….
Healing through joy instead of effort I’ve felt stuck, or even like I was backsliding at many points in my healing journey over the last 15 years. Oftentimes, I would throw more herbs, supplements, diet adjustments, or testing at the problem. And sometimes it would work, and sometimes it would not. When it didn’t work,…
My journey in learning to do less I have a problem, and it’s called being busy. I am hooked on productivity. It’s sort of like an autoimmune condition in that it seems to go into remission for periods of time and then bam I get slapped with a big fat flare-up, and find myself in…
Thanks to a functional medicine approach, I have put two autoimmune diseases into remission. I began incorporating Western functional medicine concepts into my practice about two years ago. I enrolled in a 2,000-hour functional medicine training program and immediately loved the way it helped bridge the holistic perspective of Chinese medicine with the practical…
