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Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement Plans

If you’re a WholeHealth Chicago patient, you’ve likely noticed that we review your list of nutritional supplements during each appointment. Conventional doctors ask what prescription meds you’re taking (and of course we do too), but virtually never solicit a list of supplements. Since our area of expertise lies precisely there, it’s important for us to […]

No CommentsMay 31, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Allergies & Food Sensitivities, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Bone Health, Cardiovascular Health, Depression, Digestion, Diseases, Environmental Sensitivities, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Fitness & Exercise, Health Insurance Issues, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Men's Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Respiratory Health, Sexual Health, Stress, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, Top 20 blogs of 2021, Weight Issues, Women's HealthTagged anti-aging, brian supplements, cardiovascular health, detox, hormone supplementation, immune system support, intravenous therapies, men's health, nutritional supplements, supplements, supplements for brain, vitamin supplements, Women's Health

Exciting News About Early Cancer Detection

When you cross over into your 50s and beyond, like it or not your risk for developing cancer increases. If you’re health-conscious, you try to schedule the recommended screening tests: mammogram, Pap smear, skin check, colonoscopy or Cologuard, and lung CT scan for smokers. More indirect cancer screenings include your physician noticing abrupt changes in […]

2 CommentsMay 2, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Blog, Diseases, E, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative MedicineTagged cancer, cancer screening, tests

Commonly Missed Diagnoses: Covid-19 (Covid? RU Serious?)

Leslie, a teacher in her mid-30s, made her appointment with WholeHealth Chicago at the suggestion of her primary care physician, who knows we see a lot of patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia. He’d ordered myriad tests, including, of course, one for Covid antibodies. Leslie had begun feeling poorly in the middle of 2020, […]

9 CommentsMarch 28, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, C, Cardiovascular Health, Diseases, Immune System, Integrative Medicine, Respiratory Health, Top 20 blogs of 2021Tagged coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19, long haul, long haulers

Commonly Missed Diagnoses: Parasites

If internet scare tactics from companies selling herbal supplements for parasites aren’t enough, the show “Monsters Inside Me” with its toe-curling film clips clinches it. With this show, we’re in alien-versus-predator mode, though you might ask which one is us and which them. Those really large parasites you see wriggling across your flat screen as […]

No CommentsMarch 22, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Digestion, Diseases, Functional Medicine, Immune System, Integrative Medicine, UncategorizedTagged helminths, hookworm, infections, monsters inside me, parasite, parasites, pinworm

Commonly Missed Diagnosis: The Three Faces of Lyme Disease

It’s springtime and will soon be nice and warm. We’re so thoroughly tired of being trapped inside that a woodland romp sounds perfectly delightful. But please remember that ticks are lurking. They can latch onto your ankles and fall into your hair and when they bite (which you won’t even feel), they’ll attach themselves and empty their gastrointestinal tract into your bloodstream. Ticks are a cesspool […]

3 CommentsMarch 8, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Diseases, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Immune System, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Top 20 blogs of 2021Tagged chronic lyme, lyme, Lyme disease

Commonly Missed Diagnosis: Early Autoimmune Disease

Amazingly enough, there are more than 100 different autoimmune conditions, which collectively are responsible for more chronic illness and disability in women than heart disease and cancer combined. Men can get autoimmune diseases too, but the predominance in women (2:1) is striking and also puzzling, though current thinking attributes this susceptibility to a combination of […]

5 CommentsMarch 1, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Six Commonly Missed Diagnoses: B12 Deficiency

You’re pretty sure you know your body and you tell your doctor you’re just not feeling right. You’re tired, maybe a little depressed, a bit achy. Maybe your digestion is “off.” The list of foods you can’t seem to enjoy is definitely longer. Your doctor’s empathic, not at all dismissive of your symptoms, but after […]

1 CommentFebruary 22, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Cardiovascular Health, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Infusion Therapy, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Mental Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, STagged anemia, B complex, B12, B12 deficienct, B12 deficiency

Covid Immunization: Facts, Not Fiction

If you don’t feel like reading one more word about Covid-19, you’ve got my sympathy. However, if you’re inclined, scan this Health Tip and perhaps pick up a fact or two you didn’t know. Want to jump to my take-away? It’s this: When the vaccine is available to you, take it and thank your lucky […]

35 CommentsJanuary 18, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, C, Ear, Nose, & Throat, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Most comments, Most Viewed, Respiratory HealthTagged coronavirus, COVID, covid vaccination, shot, vaccination, vaccine

The Chemical Swill Accumulating In Your Body

I was pleased with the election of Joe Biden, not least because we might end (and start reversing) the more than 100 pollution rollbacks that the Trump administration has initiated in favor of corporate polluters. However, I was genuinely disheartened to learn that his current EPA lackeys recently finalized a rule that will sabotage any […]

2 CommentsDecember 13, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, C, Ear, Nose, & Throat, Environmental Sensitivities, Functional Medicine, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Mold Toxicity, Respiratory HealthTagged chemicals, pollution, toxic, toxins

The Covid-19 Long Haulers + POTS

Most people who get Covid-19 suffer a very unpleasant few days, but recover completely. However as you’ve undoubtedly heard, some, now called long haulers, are taking much longer to recover. These patients are left with residual symptoms (some of which are new in that they didn’t appear during the original infection) that may be less […]

9 CommentsDecember 7, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, C, Diseases, Immune System, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Naturopathic Medicine, Top 20 blogs of 2020Tagged COVID, fatigue, hypotension, orthostatic hypotension, POTS

A Genuinely Useful Blood Test

Many a time, in person or via phone, someone will say a variation of “Look, I’m taking all these vitamins and minerals but I really don’t know what I’m doing. I think I’m eating right, but I might have some vitamin or mineral deficiencies I know nothing about and I don’t know the consequences.” This […]

2 CommentsNovember 30, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Your First Step For Any (Any!) Chronic Symptoms

Here’s an unfortunate trend: more and more young people (at my age, everyone under 50 is young) are troubled by chronic physical and emotional symptoms. Sometimes there’s a diagnosis: rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, Crohn’s, fibromyalgia. But just as often there are plenty of symptoms and no diagnosis. I can’t count how many times patients have […]

6 CommentsNovember 23, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Surge Protection

A confession: I’ve never done well with authority figures. Those who know me, the mildest and gentlest of souls, would never guess that years back I had issues with various medical associations and physician groups about such “controversial” notions as having conventional and alternative practitioners working together or actually treating (again, “controversial”) diagnoses like chronic […]

5 CommentsNovember 15, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, C, Functional Medicine, Immune System, Knowledge Base, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Top 20 blogs of 2020Tagged immune system, supplements

IV Immune Boost: Now Is The Time

Nobody I know was surprised when the president and many of his staff were found to be Covid-19 positive. You can only thumb your nose at science for so long before Mother Nature gets exasperated and lets you have it. To me, the real irony is this: at the same time the upper echelon in […]

3 CommentsOctober 5, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, I, Immune System, Knowledge BaseTagged flu, Flu season, immune, immunity, influenza, IV, IV therapy

The Flu Shot: Now More Important Than Ever

When it comes to the flu shot, I take a far more conventional approach than many WholeHealth Chicago patients expect of a doctor who considers himself alternative/integrative. It’s also worth noting that after reviewing some of the online advice warning people away from the flu shot, it’s my sense that this is frequently followed by […]

14 CommentsSeptember 14, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Diseases, Ear, Nose, & Throat, Immune System, Knowledge Base, Respiratory Health, TTagged flu, flu shot, flu vaccinaiton, vaccination, vaccine

IV Therapies, Part 1: The World Famous Myers’ Cocktail

Over the next few weeks I’ll be writing about the intravenous (IV) therapies we offer at WholeHealth Chicago–what they are, how they work, and who can benefit. There are IV protocols for the immune system, stress, macular degeneration, anti-aging, chronic infections like Lyme disease and chronic mono, toxic metals, and those used as adjunctive care […]

1 CommentAugust 17, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Covid-19 Worries

You may have noticed fewer Health Tips about Covid-19 recently, which might have struck you as odd given our dreadful numbers here in the US. Well, there was a reason for this. WholeHealth Chicago was one of hundreds of health-oriented websites that were sent cease-and-desist warning letters from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) alleging widespread […]

22 CommentsAugust 3, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, C, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Most comments, Most Viewed, Respiratory HealthTagged coronavirus, COVID, COVID-19

Survival Steps + Immune Boost IV

Glance at the front page of any major website or newspaper–New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune–and you’ll see there’s just one topic of actual importance to your health and longevity. Now take a few focused breaths and return to calm. You’re not alone with your anxiety. There are actually national shortages of certain anti-anxiety […]

3 CommentsJuly 13, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Immune System, Knowledge Base, STagged immune, immune boost, intravenous therapies, IV, IV therapy, nutritional supplements, supplements

I Feel So Inflamed!

Previously, I wrote about mold-related illness, yet another commonly overlooked diagnosis. It’s surprising how regularly mold issues fly under the radar of conventional physicians. When you consider how often homes and workplaces have a leaky roof, unless something smells moldy or we discover creeping black stains somewhere we often don’t think of mold. Moreover, because […]

2 CommentsJune 22, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Environmental Sensitivities, Healthy Lifestyle, I, Immune System, Inflammation, Knowledge Base, Mold Toxicity, Natural Apothecary, Top 20 blogs of 2020Tagged chronic inflammatory response syndrome, inflammation, inflammatory, mold, mold illness, mycotoxin

WholeHealth Chicago IV Therapies: Ultraviolet Blood Irradiation (UBI)

You should know that we follow the CDC safety guidelines and that all IV therapies are administered in a sanitized room by an appropriately attired staff member. You’ll be alone in the room during your 30- to 45-minute IV session, so bring something to read. I was as surprised as everyone else, including Anthony Fauci, […]

3 CommentsJune 15, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Homeopathy, Immune System, Integrative Medicine, Internal Medicine, Knowledge Base, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Top 20 blogs of 2020, WTagged blood irradiation, infusion, IV, UBI