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 […]
Preventive Medicine
Services / Preventive Medicine

We believe prevention is always better than a cure.
Preventive medicine is a medical specialty recognized by the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS), which focuses on the health of individuals and communities. The goal of preventive medicine is to promote health and well-being and prevent disease, disability and death.
At WholeHealth Chicago we offer a variety of preventive testing and treatments as well as annual or biannual physical exams.
- Men’s & Woman’s Health Panels
- Physical Exams
- Brain Health
- Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease Prevention
Health Tips
Spring! And time for a Health Tip on Lyme Disease and other tick borne illnesses. All in preparation for your summer vacation to those large northern suburbs Wisconsin and Michigan because each exports so many cases of Lyme Disease to our WholeHealth Chicago Centers. The weather is warming and with warm weather, the tick population […]
Last month, our occasionally misguided Director of Health and Human Services stated something factually incorrect, namely that immunity from MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine wanes at 4.5% a year (it does not) and that “older people are essentially unvaccinated.” They are not. “Older people” (whatever that means) are usually very well protected from measles. If a person […]
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 […]
Oh, these tick borne illnesses! Since we saw three new cases this week of one you may not have heard of, Babesia, I thought I’d share some information. You know, forewarned is forearmed and so forth. It’s estimated that half the ticks in that summer suburb of Chicago the locals call, “Wisconsin” are currently carrying […]