Do you sometimes “crash” with debilitating fatigue?
Do you “crash” after a busy or stressful event, suffering from extreme exhaustion that keeps you confined to your bed or couch? If so, you may be experiencing autoimmune fatigue. [...]
How Your Gut Health Affects Your Mental Health
Recent years have seen a growing awareness of mental health issues, and, thankfully, more open conversations about addressing psychological challenges. However, many people remain unaware of new, exciting research on [...]
Functional Health Minute August 2019
Depression and anxiety are hitting all-time highs these days, sending millions of Americans in search of relief. While many avenues reduce or eliminate symptoms, particularly functional medicine protocols that [...]
Functional Health Minute July 2019
In the world of functional medicine, it has long been known that gut health is paramount to the health of the rest of the body. For decades we didn’t [...]
Depression is a disorder of inflammation in many cases
Depression is one of the most common mental disorders in the United States, affecting more than 16 million people. As such, antidepressant use has jumped by 65 percent in the [...]
How to support your brain’s “happiness” chemical
Many people take SSRI antidepressants for depression. However, it’s important to ask why you are feeling depression in the first place. Many important research strides have been made linking chronic [...]
Is chronic stress damaging you? Take an adrenal test
Many of us are too stressed out these days and this can have negative consequences on our bodies and brains, promoting chronic disease and rapid brain degeneration. If you’re concerned [...]
Do you feel more depressed in summer?
Most people have heard of SAD, or Seasonal Affective Disorder, when winter brings on chronic blues. But if you feel better in winter than summer, you may have summer SAD, [...]
Why you should care about leaky gut when you have Hashimoto’s hypothyroidism
Does stuff really leak out of your intestines when you have a leaky gut? The truth is the contents of the small intestine escape through the wall into the bloodstream. [...]
Stable blood sugar promotes a good mood!
You’ve probably heard that depression and other mental health issues are based on a lack of brain chemicals such as serotonin and GABA. Conventional treatment is to give medications that [...]