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Welcome Nurse Practitioner Rachel Gates + Lifestyle Medicine 101

This week we welcome Rachel Gates, NP, to WholeHealth Chicago, where she joins nurse practitioners Katie McManigal and Wendy Ploegstra. Like Wendy, Rachel is specially trained in a new (and desperately needed) branch of healthcare called Lifestyle Medicine. More about that later. Indiana-born and raised, Rachel began her education at Purdue University, earning her RN […]

WholeHealth Chicago Is Expanding Its Staff!

WHOLEHEALTH CHICAGO, the Midwest’s oldest and largest center for integrative, alternative, and functional medicine, is expanding its staff to accommodate our rapidly growing patient base. We are seeking:A physician (MD or DO, Family Practice or Internal Medicine, Board Eligible or Board Certified) who feels confident with conventional medicine and equally at ease practicing functional medicine and […]

The Mystery Of Sudden Weight Gain

You know who you are. You’ve been eating stable portions of pretty much the same healthy food for years and you consider yourself weight conscious. Long ago you decided that by combining smart food choices and a health club membership, you were not–definitely not–going to be one of those people who added a point or […]