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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

Gut Restoration: Repairing Your Microbiome

At one time, conventional physicians simply did not believe in the concept of intestinal dysbiosis, in which the intestinal tract has an unhealthful mix of the 100 trillion bacteria thriving within it. This population of bacteria is called the microbiome, a word for years ignored in medical schools and barely recognized by gastroenterologists. It was […]

4 CommentsMay 16, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Allergies & Food Sensitivities, Alternative Therapies, Digestion, Diseases, Functional Medicine, Weight IssuesTagged crohn's disease, gut restore, leaky gut, SIBO, ulcerative colitis, unbalanced microbiome

Is The Environment Making Us Fat(ter)?

Virtually every day, a patient offers a variation of this sentence: “I’m steadily gaining weight no matter what I do. I restrict my calories to good foods, I exercise regularly, and I get zero results. My thyroid tests are normal. What’s wrong with my body?” We know the US is a nation of the overweight […]

4 CommentsMay 10, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in B, Environmental Sensitivities, Healthy Lifestyle, I, Naturopathic Medicine, Weight IssuesTagged chemicals, detox, environmental, toxic, toxins, weight, weight loss

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

Intravenous NAD+ and Your Telomeres

In recent weeks, there’s been a noticeable upsurge of interest in the anti-aging therapies we offer at WholeHealth Chicago. Maybe it has something to do with pandemic year 2020. Now that we’re vaccinated and peeking our heads out from our hidey-holes, emerging from darkness into light, we sense we’ve lost a year. Since we can’t […]

1 CommentApril 26, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Healthy Lifestyle, I, Infusion TherapyTagged aging, anti-aging, anti-aging IV, IV therapy, NAD

How To Slow Aging and Track Your Results

Most people figure they must be getting older based on how they feel and look. We wince at our first grey hair, deepening wrinkles, and shifting body fat. We huff and puff climbing the stairs, forget names, and occasionally leak fluids. We relate to the line from a Leonard Cohen song, “I ache in the […]

4 CommentsApril 19, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Blog, Functional Medicine, H, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Preventive Medicine, Top 20 blogs of 2021Tagged aging, anti-aging, telomeres

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

My Favorite Supplement: Magnesium

Along with most things relating to good nutrition, I wasn’t taught much of anything about supplemental magnesium either in medical school or during my internal medicine residency. It was a professional clinical nutritionist I met during a long-ago meeting of the American Holistic Medical Association who first told me, “You’ll never go wrong if you […]

5 CommentsApril 4, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Internal Medicine, M, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Top 20 blogs of 2021Tagged cardiac, cardiovascular, energy, headache, magnesium, muscle, Supplement

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 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

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

What is Low-Dose Naltrexone (LDN) and Can It Help Me?

Ten years ago April marks the anniversary of the first time I wrote about low-dose naltrexone (LDN). I described it as an orphan drug, meaning that its patent had long ago expired, that it was generic, and that it was not owned by any one company. For these reasons and because they’d never recoup their […]

6 CommentsFebruary 15, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Pain Management, Top 20 blogs of 2021, WTagged chronic pain, cytokine, inflammation, LDN, Low Dose Naltrexone, pain

Can’t Get Vaccinated? Here’s Why

Once a week, the Chicago Sun-Times asks random people “How hard have you found it to get a Covid-19 vaccination?” and devotes a page to the responses. Virtually every answer is a variation of “I’ve tried to sign up on all the websites every day at all times of day and night and appointments are […]

6 CommentsFebruary 7, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, C, Knowledge BaseTagged coronavirus, coronavirus vaccine, COVID, covid vaccine, COVID-19, covid-19 vaccine, vaccination, vaccine

Getting The Lead Out (And A Further Word About Immunization)

I’ll bet you didn’t know that Chicago has by far the worst problem with lead exposure in the entire US. It’s now estimated that fully 80% of our underground pipes are lined with lead. This means we’re all exposed to potentially toxic lead levels and the accompanying health risks. You’ll recall from last week’s Health […]

2 CommentsFebruary 1, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Functional Medicine, G, Healthy Lifestyle, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge BaseTagged heavy metal, heavy metal testing, lead, lead toxicity, Metal, metal toxicity, testing, Toxicity

No Safe Level: Lead Poisoning and Your Health

I prefer the term “poisoning” over “toxicity” as there is no acceptably safe level of lead in the human body, just as there is no acceptable level of cyanide or strychnine. Low levels of lead won’t kill you with the swiftness of cyanide, but they will surely damage your health and, critically, that of your […]

4 CommentsJanuary 24, 2021 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Bone Health, Healthy Lifestyle, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, NTagged heavy metal, lead, Metal, poisoning, Toxicity

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