Aug 20, 2017 | Blog, Functional Medicine
The regulation of blood sugar is an important part of your health from a functional perspective. We know that having high blood sugar is unhealthy. The extreme form of high blood sugar is called diabetes and is clearly associated with a variety of serious health risks...
May 18, 2017 | Blog, Functional Medicine
Are you tired all the time? Are you having sleep issues? Are you not losing weight despite an optimal diet? If so, you may have a metabolic dysfunction. Metabolism is the process by which the mitochondria of our cells convert calories (fat, protein, and carbohydrates)...
Apr 9, 2017 | Blog, Functional Medicine
Neurotransmitters & Their Impact Neurotransmitters are the chemical messengers that our nervous system uses to relay information in between neurons. The way different parts of the brain communicate as well as how it processes stimuli from the outside world, depend...
Mar 2, 2017 | Blog, Functional Medicine
Chronic and prolonged stress negatively affects our health. From a Functional Medicine perspective, the pathway by which this occurs is by the development of a syndrome called Adrenal Fatigue. Stress is a normal part of life. In response to stress, our adrenal glands...
Feb 7, 2017 | Blog, Functional Medicine
When we think of squat, we think of an “exercise”, but in reality we are squatting all the time in our every day lives. If we are doing this with non-authentic movement patterns, then we are setting ourselves up to generate low back problems. A squat is a...
Jan 8, 2017 | Blog, Functional Medicine
The thyroid gland, which is located in the front of the neck, is the master control for the rate of the body’s metabolism. Symptoms of hypothyroidism include weight gain, fatigue, cold intolerance, constipation, dry skin and brittle nails. In...
