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Lyme Disease In Your Nervous System: Three Cases

Posted on September 6, 2020 by

Posted in Blog, Case Studies, Knowledge Base, L, Lyme Disease & Morgellons — 5 Comments ↓

“Why am I limiting this to only three cases?” I wondered. Physicians who treat Lyme, like our group at WholeHealth Chicago where we see a lot of Lyme disease patients, would tell you there are so many manifestations of Lyme when it invades the nervous system that I really should list as many as possible. But to keep this Health Tip manageable, we’ll keep it Read More

Tagged with: chronic lyme, chronic pain, fatigue, lyme, Lyme disease, Neurological symptoms, pain

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

Posted on August 17, 2020 by

Posted in Alternative Therapies, Blog, Diseases, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, I, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons — 1 Comment ↓

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 during cancer treatments. It’s especially important these days to focus Read More

Tagged with: immune, immune system, intravenous therapies, Intravenous therapy, IV, IV therapy, Myers, Myers' cocktail, vitamins

WholeHealth Chicago IV Therapies: Ozone

Posted on June 7, 2020 by

Posted in Alternative Therapies, Blog, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Fitness & Exercise, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Pain Management, W — 7 Comments ↓

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. It’s definitely worthwhile to have a basic understanding of ozone therapy. If you’re perfectly healthy, you may not need the Read More

Tagged with: IV ozone, ozone, ozone iv, ozone therapy

Functional Telemedicine, Wherever You Are

Posted on May 11, 2020 by

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, Health Insurance Issues, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Men's Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Pain Management, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, Weight Issues, Women's Health — 5 Comments ↓

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 everything except, of course, a physical exam. Otherwise, your cybervisit Read More

Tagged with: 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

Breakthroughs in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Posted on February 10, 2020 by

Posted in B, Blog, Diseases, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Immune System, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues — 3 Comments ↓

To me, the greatest advance for the estimated 2.5 million adults, adolescents, and children with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) has been the slow but steady acceptance of its very existence by the conventional medical community. This has been a real uphill battle and we’re encouraged to finally see some (guarded) victories. The first description of what would be later called chronic fatigue syndrome came in Read More

Tagged with: adrenal, CFS, chronic fatigue, chronic fatigue syndrome, chronic lyme, CIRS, EBV, Epstein-Barr, fatigue, heavy metals, inflammation, leaky gut, lyme, Lyme disease, metals, thyroid

Six Beefs With Rheumatologists

Posted on January 6, 2020 by

Posted in Blog, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, S — 3 Comments ↓

If you find yourself in the waiting room of a rheumatologist, you’re likely there because your joints hurt and have been hurting, often for years. You’ve been getting by on aspirin or Advil for the pain, but with things worsening your primary care doctor suggests you should see a joint specialist, a rheumatologist. And because there’s a shortage of physicians in this specialty, your appointment Read More

Tagged with: anti-inflammatory, biologics, chronic lyme, lyme, Lyme disease, rheumatologist, rheumatology

The Cleveland Clinic and WholeHealth Chicago

Posted on November 4, 2019 by

Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Big Pharma Evils, Blog, Digestion, Environmental Sensitivities, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Fitness & Exercise, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, T, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues — 3 Comments ↓

I know, I know. It’s presumptuous of me to mention Cleveland Clinic in the same line, much less on the same page, as WholeHealth Chicago, though we do have significant attributes in common, as you’ll see today. This research article, which appeared last week on the JAMA website, links the two of us in ways we never expected, though it didn’t surprise us. Naturally, we Read More

Tagged with: functional medicine

New Hope For Sinus Sufferers

Posted on October 7, 2019 by

Posted in Allergies & Food Sensitivities, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Ear, Nose, & Throat, Environmental Sensitivities, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, N, Respiratory Health — 2 Comments ↓

When osteopath Dr. Rob Ivker moved to Colorado in the 1980s to set up his family practice, he had no idea that when he stepped off the plane he’d succumb to symptoms of chronic sinusitis that just wouldn’t go away: stuffy nose, thick mucus, pressure behind his cheekbones and above his eyebrows, dull aching headache, and thick goopy drainage in the back of his throat. Read More

Tagged with: chronic lyme, congesiton, lyme, mold, mold illness, Sinus, sinus infections, sinusitis

Director of IV Therapies Katie McManigal, BSN, ANP

Posted on September 30, 2019 by

Posted in Blog, D, Health Insurance Issues, Immune System, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies — 2 Comments ↓

Most people at some point in their lives have had an intravenous (IV) line. An adept nurse warned you about the tiny pinch of the needle as it was smoothly inserted and taped in place. Then the fluid dangling above your head slowly started making its way through a tube and into your body. IVs are all over the place in hospitals. They’re seen in Read More

Tagged with: IV ozone, IV therapies, IV therapy, MAH, ozone, Ozone therapry, UVB

First, Heal Your Gut

Posted on August 19, 2019 by

Posted in Allergies & Food Sensitivities, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Candida (yeast) and Parasites, Digestion, Diseases, F, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies — 2 Comments ↓

About 25 years ago, when I was organizing what today is WholeHealth Chicago, I attempted to learn everything I could about all the fields of what was then called alternative medicine. Since naturopathic medicine, or naturopathy, didn’t really exist in Illinois (perpetually blocked by the Illinois State Medical Society), I flew to the west coast to attend the annual meeting of the American Association of Read More

Tagged with: chronic illness, digestion, gut health, gut microbiome, gut-brain connection, microbiome, prebiotics, probiotic, probiotics

Category: Lyme Disease & Morgellons

Lyme Disease In Your Nervous System: Three Cases

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

WholeHealth Chicago IV Therapies: Ozone

Functional Telemedicine, Wherever You Are

Breakthroughs in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Six Beefs With Rheumatologists

The Cleveland Clinic and WholeHealth Chicago

New Hope For Sinus Sufferers

Director of IV Therapies Katie McManigal, BSN, ANP

First, Heal Your Gut

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