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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

Menopause Hell? Quell The Fire With Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)

When it’s time, you can expect to transition through menopause in one of three ways. If you’re unlucky enough to land in Menopause Hell, give some serious thought to bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT). Some women experience Menopause Heaven, in which your periods start changing and then stop without drama. A year goes by without […]

2 CommentsMay 23, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Bone Health, Cardiovascular Health, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, M, Sexual Health, Women's HealthTagged BHRT, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy, hormone balancing, hormone replacement therapies, menopause, 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

Commonly Overlooked Diagnoses: The Subtleties of PMS

Several women’s health websites place the number of symptoms attributable to premenstrual syndrome (PMS) at 150. I personally think that’s an undercount. I really began to appreciate this some years ago when a young woman came to see me with recurring hives. Out of the blue, she’d awaken from sleep covered in large red itchy […]

No CommentsMarch 15, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, C, Functional Medicine, Healthy Lifestyle, Homeopathy, Knowledge Base, Sexual Health, Women's HealthTagged menstratio, Menstrual, migraines, pain, PMS, Reproductive health, Women's Health

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

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 […]

2 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

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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When Your Female Sex Drive Is Circling The Drain

I don’t mean to catch you mid-croissant on this topic, but it may have recently dawned on you that your sex drive is not what it was when you were younger. In fact, when you think about it, maybe you never had much of a sex drive at all, no matter which of your decades […]

3 CommentsJuly 22, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine, Aging, Blog, Healthy Lifestyle, Integrative Medicine, Integrative Psychiatry, Knowledge Base, Sexual Health, W, Women's HealthTagged libido, low libido, sex, Sexual health, sexual performance

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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A Lifetime Of Experience With Abortion

The past two years of a Trump administration have produced an ugly upsurge in controversy over women’s rights, from the serial sexual predation revelations of the #MeToo movement to yet another state following the lead of the 25 white male Republicans (for their photos, click here) who voted to ban abortion in Alabama and send […]

7 CommentsMay 27, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in A, Blog, Health Insurance Issues, Knowledge Base, Mental Health, Sexual Health, Women's HealthTagged Abortion, Health Politics, Women's Health

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 […]

16 CommentsApril 29, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Osteopenia and Osteoporosis, Part 2

Last week in Part 1 we wrote an overview of osteoporosis and osteopenia. I couldn’t help but note that most US physicians can date their knowledge of both diagnosis and treatment to the saturation marketing of Big Pharma’s variety of osteoporosis medications, most notably the bisphosphonates (Fosamax, Boniva, Reclast). As we all get older, our […]

No CommentsJuly 30, 2018 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Big Pharma Evils, Blog, Bone Health, Fitness & Exercise, Healthy Lifestyle, Infusion Therapy, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, O, Preventive Medicine, Women's Health

Osteopenia and Osteoporosis, Part 1

As is the case with many of our contemporary ailments, it was a combination of Baby Boomer longevity, the ready availability of devices to measure bone density, and Big Pharma creativity that taught both patients and physicians about osteopenia (low bone mineral density) and its more serious consequence, osteoporosis, in which bones become brittle and […]

No CommentsJuly 23, 2018 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine, Aging, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Bone Health, Fitness & Exercise, Healthy Lifestyle, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, O, Preventive Medicine, Women's Health

Controversial Diagnosis #1: Fibromyalgia

I encountered my first significant controversial diagnosis when we opened WholeHealth Chicago in the mid-1990s. The concept of combining conventional and alternative medicine was new to the Midwest and right away we began seeing patients who came to us with chronic symptoms but no solid diagnosis. One group that stood out was made up of […]

No CommentsMay 7, 2018 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Big Pharma Evils, Blog, C, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Internal Medicine, Knowledge Base, Pain Management, Women's Health