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PCOS hidden symptoms
Beyond the Symptoms: The Hidden Impact of PCOS

A recent report revealed the enormous impact of PCOS hidden symptoms, with diagnosis and lifetime treatments costing the U.S. around $8 billion a year. Polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) affects up to 20% of reproductive-age women—yet most remain undiagnosed for years. If you have PCOS, obviously you’re not alone. It’s estimated that PCOS affects one woman in […]

Tick-borne Alpha-Gal Syndrome causes red meat allergy after a bite from a Lone Star tick.
CASE STUDY: Why Ben Can’t Eat Steak!

I’d known the two of them for years. Now in their early fifties, Ben and Frieda were in good health—until Ben started reacting to red meat. What was happening? As it turns out, Ben was developing Alpha-Gal Syndrome, a tick-borne allergy that causes reactions to red meat. Frieda began, “We think this probably began weeks […]

Illustration of adrenal glands and cortisol cycle representing adrenal fatigue and chronic stress
CASE STUDY: ADRENAL FATIGUE

“Exhaustion is my reality. At four o’clock, I’m wiped, totally wiped.”  Patricia is forty-three, happily married as far as marriages go, one kid, steadily employed in the usual American less-than-satisfying corporate job, good eating habits, and, until recently, health club a few times a week. Now she’s too tired for that. By appearance, she’s dragging. […]

Kirk’s transformation
CASE STUDY: HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE

This will begin some of our case studies, just how we use lifestyle changes and nutritional supplements for common health issues that conventional doctors treat first with a prescription med, often a second medication added to deal with side effects from the first. Phyllis B. was a long time patient of mine, whose medical problems, generally […]

micronutrient blood test
A GENUINELY USEFUL BLOOD TEST

Many a time, either in person or via phone, someone will say a variation of the following, “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 that I know nothing about. I really don’t […]

Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity
NON-CELIAC GLUTEN SENSITIVITY: UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY

Here’s a diagnosis that doctors only started thinking about as recently as the 1980’s and now, decades later, although there are now plenty of gluten free items available both in grocery stores and on restaurant menus, doctors are still arguing about its existence. Many don’t even mention it to their patients with irritable bowel syndrome. “Why […]

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