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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

Anti-Aging Peptide Therapy

Ask ten people to define peptide therapy and it’s doubtful you’ll get a coherent response. Search for it online and you’ll be overwhelmed by information and likely put off by claims that sound too good to be true (“Burn fat! Combat mental decline!). Let’s face it, we’d all like to enhance fat burning, slow aging, […]

1 CommentApril 12, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in A, Aging, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Healthy Lifestyle, Men's Health, Peptide Therapy, Women's HealthTagged aging, Peptide, peptide therapy, Peptides

Major Breakthrough: A Highly Accurate Blood Test For Fibromyalgia

Although I’ve taken care of well over 2,000 fibromyalgia patients since first opening WholeHealth Chicago in 1995 (and also written a successful book on the subject), I was always troubled by two questions. First, exactly what is fibromyalgia? How can there be a condition that’s severe enough to be disabling, manifesting as widespread muscle pain, […]

9 CommentsJanuary 4, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, M, Men's Health, Pain Management, Women's HealthTagged chronic pain, fibro, fibromyalgia, lab testing, Labs, pain, tests

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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Brain-Boosting Supplements

In our previous two Health Tips, we discussed the most common causes of brain fog. The first of these focused on stress. When there’s so much you’re anxious about, your logical thinking, mental clarity, and memory become overwhelmed to the extent that you’ve added yet another stressor. “Is this early dementia?” you may wonder. Well […]

2 CommentsNovember 8, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, B, Blog, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Healthy Lifestyle, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Men's Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Women's HealthTagged brain, brain health, brian supplements, memory, stress, supplements for brain

Brain Fog and What To Do About It, Part 1

You can’t remember the name of the Netflix movie you saw just last night, literally hours ago. And that actor–what was his name? He was in, you know, that other movie. You think it was a thriller, but maybe a war movie. Then you get a notice from Verizon that they’re turning off your phone […]

4 CommentsOctober 25, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Michelle Obama: Thanks for Reminding Us We’re Not Alone

You probably read last week that Michelle Obama acknowledged she’d been experiencing what she described as low-grade depression. You may have wondered aloud, as I did, how anyone who sees what’s going on in the world could avoid it. Many of us are feeling hopeless or anxious, ruminating about where this is all going, eating […]

4 CommentsAugust 9, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Fitness & Exercise, Healthy Lifestyle, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, M, Men's Health, Mental Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, Women's HealthTagged anti-depressants, depression, mental health, Michelle Obama, Obama, serotonin, ssri, thyroid

Do You Have Low Testosterone?

For 80 (!) years physicians have prescribed testosterone to men without being certain if it actually had any effect…other than raising testosterone levels. The only FDA-approved indication for testosterone is hypogonadism, in which there’s an actual disorder of the male reproductive system that results in the body not producing enough testosterone. Causes of hypogonadism include […]

1 CommentJuly 5, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Functional Telemedicine, Wherever You Are

All things considered, we’ve rather enjoyed our telemedicine interactions with patients. Doctoring this way also recently provided me with an Aha! moment. What I realized was that much of what we do as Functional Medicine specialists, both diagnosis and treatment, can be done online with you never leaving your home. Such a consultation would include […]

5 CommentsMay 11, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Allergies & Food Sensitivities, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Bone Health, Candida (yeast) and Parasites, Cardiovascular Health, Chiropractic & Physical Medicine, Diseases, Environmental Sensitivities, F, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Functional Medicine, Health Insurance Issues, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Men's Health, Mental Health, Mold Toxicity, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Pain Management, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, Top 20 blogs of 2020, Weight Issues, Women's HealthTagged adrenal fatigue, amino acids, B12 deficienct, biotoxin, Candida, chemical sensitivities, chronic fatigue, chronic symptoms, digestion, distance medicine, fatigue, fibromyalgia, food sensitivities, heavy metal, hormone imbalance, hormones, hypothyroid, hypothyroidism, leaky gut, lyme, mold, mold biotoxin, organic acids, parasites, SIBO, small intestine bacterial overgrowth, Telehealth, telehealthcare, telemedicine, vitamin D

When Your Sex Drive is on Life Support

Low desire? No more orgasms? Is your sexual enjoyment a nonexistent priority in your partnership? Sex is such a physical/emotional chore that you’d rather be burning the calories in a Pilates class? Part of our intake questionnaire at WholeHealth Chicago asks if you’re satisfied with your sex life and fully half of our newcomers either […]

No CommentsFebruary 17, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Blog, Healthy Lifestyle, Knowledge Base, Men's Health, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, W, Women's HealthTagged erectile dysfunction, libido, sex, sex drive, sex life, Sexual health, sexuality, viagra

Infertility Issues? Start With The Guy

I’ve lost track of the number of couples we treat at WholeHealth Chicago who are involved in one of the hormone injection/surgical procedure stops on the conveyor belt of infertility centers. Currently, it’s estimated that 15 to 20 percent of couples are struggling with infertility, half of them due to male factors. The infertility docs […]

1 CommentJanuary 19, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Alternative Therapies, Blog, Healthy Lifestyle, I, Knowledge Base, Men's Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone IssuesTagged essential fatty acids, fatty acids, fish oil, infertility, male infertility, omega

Issues with Endocrinologists: Thyroid Approaches and Big Pharma

My beefs with endocrinologists pretty much center on how they manage thyroid gland concerns, though they rarely win prizes for managing adrenal issues either. I don’t know any endocrinologists personally and rarely refer my patients to them. Occasionally, a patient with newly diagnosed hypothyroidism (low thyroid) will want to confirm the diagnosis with an endocrinologist. […]

13 CommentsJanuary 13, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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To A Long and Healthy Life!

You may have read earlier this summer about the public health statisticians who announced that Chicagoans could get a reasonable estimate about how long they’ll live based on their neighborhood, sort of a Death by Zip Code. If you live in Streeterville, you’ve got a good chance to reach 90. If you’re struggling in Englewood, […]

No CommentsOctober 21, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Cardiovascular Health, Functional Medicine, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Knowledge Base, Men's Health, Mental Health, TTagged aging, anti-aging, health risk, IV therapy, IVs, NAD

Case Study: High Blood Pressure

Phyllis B. was a longtime patient of mine whose medical problems were happily under control and who usually came in only for annual check-ups. As I’d just seen her last month, I expected today’s visit meant some new problem had emerged. “I’m here for Kirk,” she began. I’d only met her husband once, years earlier. […]

9 CommentsJuly 15, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Are Lifestyle Changes Impossible?

Many years ago, I became exhausted dealing with a friend who ignored my advice on living a healthy lifestyle. His attitude toward exercise was similar to Oscar Wilde’s “I often take exercise. Why only yesterday I had breakfast in bed.” His attitude toward food, especially restaurant food, was that he didn’t care much about quality […]

1 CommentJuly 8, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Male Menopause: Is It Real?

Short answer: Yes, but don’t hope for any quick fixes—that’s pharmaceutical industry-think. Another way to view male menopause: Sure, a ball will bounce, just not as high over time. I get asked about male menopause all the time, almost always by women (who, admittedly, represent the majority of my patients) and only rarely by my […]

1 CommentJune 17, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Blog, Fitness & Exercise, Healthy Lifestyle, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, M, Men's Health, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone IssuesTagged aging, anti-aging, libido, low libido, men's health, testosterone

Ozone Therapy: What It Is and How It’s Used

I’ll spare you a migraine. Don’t google “ozone therapy” as you’ll get 2.1 million results in 0.35 seconds. And while this is a mere fraction of what happens when you search for “migraine” (80 million in 1.19 seconds), just reading about the controversy over ozone therapy in first 20 entries might be enough to give […]

15 CommentsApril 29, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Reversing Mental Decline and Preventing Alzheimer’s, Part 1

You saw a movie last week and in discussing it with friends simply can’t remember the important parts. Plus you just missed another appointment. Planning to drive to a north suburb, you instead got on the southbound expressway and after 15 minutes of Loop traffic realized your error. You’re mixing up words and forgetting too […]

4 CommentsFebruary 26, 2018 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Healthy Lifestyle, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Men's Health, Mental Health, R, Women's Health

Disappointments With Testosterone

For 80 (!) years physicians have prescribed testosterone to men without being certain if it actually had any effect other than raising testosterone levels. The only FDA-approved indication for testosterone is pathological hypogonadism, in which there’s an actual disorder of the male reproductive system that results in the body not producing enough testosterone. Examples are testicular […]

No CommentsJanuary 22, 2018 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Blog, D, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Men's Health, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone IssuesTagged testosterone

Functional Medicine 101 + Introducing Dr. Alaina Gemelas

Functional Medicine is without a doubt the fastest growing medical specialty of the 21st century. Public interest in it and public acceptance of it continues to please me. Every day I hear the sentence, “I made this appointment because I wanted a functional approach.” When I ask patients how they learned about it, the answer […]

5 CommentsNovember 13, 2017 by WholeHealth Chicago

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