Health – Wellness – Longevity

Can Stress Make You Age Faster? (Yes. And Here’s What to Do About It.) You eat reasonably well. You try to exercise. You’ve read approximately 4,000 articles about sleep hygiene. And yet something still feels off. The weight is creeping up despite your best efforts. You’re tired in a way that sleep doesn’t fully fix. [...]

Caffeine’s Surprising Effects on Hormones and Health I enjoy drinking coffee in the morning. I drink it black since it has a lot of antioxidants. It wakes me up and makes my intellect sharper. Coffee and tea can definitely be part of a healthy lifestyle, but caffeine is not neutral. Its effects on hormones depend [...]

You're not the only one who has ever wondered if your daily vitamins are really doing anything. A lot of my patients ask me, "Are supplements really worth it, or is it just expensive pee?" What the new science says New information from more than 15,000 adults shows that getting more vitamins may slow down [...]

I hear the same thing very often and patients ask me: “Why can’t I lose weight? I am eating healthy and exercising and the weight just doesn’t budge. You're not the only one who has been having trouble with weight gain during perimenopause or menopause, even though you're doing "all the right things." This time [...]

Stress And Aging: How Functional Medicine Can Help You Age GracefullyDo you ever feel like you are aging rapidly?Maybe you are gaining weight, are moody and irritable, can’t sleep, have brain fog, aches and pains and are tired and just don’t feel like yourself anymore. Would you like some ways to slow it down?Aging gracefully [...]

Thyroid Symptoms And Effective Treatments Introduction Thyroid diseases are disorders affecting the thyroid gland that disrupt one or more of the gland’s primary functions.  The thyroid gland is an essential organ for producing thyroid hormones which regulate metabolic processes. Specific types of thyroid diseases include the following: Hypothyroidism Hyperthyroidism Goiter Thyroid nodules Thyroid cancer In [...]