This all started with a postcard I received from Northwestern, “Do You Have Difficulty Walking?”, beckoning me to enter the FIRST research study. This is not “first,” like “first, second,” but an acronym (not mentioned on the card) for quite a mouthful: Fisetin to Reduce Senescence and Mobility Impairment in Peripheral Artery Disease. “Fisetin?”, I […]
Cardiovascular Health & Disease Prevention
Treatments / Cardiovascular Health & Disease Prevention
Cardiovascular Health & Disease Prevention
Diagnostics and disease prevention for a variety of cardiovascular conditions from high blood pressure to cardiovascular disease risk. "The leading cause of death in the United States continues to be heart disease. Heart disease is also a key cause of disability, and there are multiple factors that can raise your risk. Some of these risk factors cannot be controlled and other are very controllable.
WholeHealth Chicago offers a wide variety of diagnostic tests and cardiovascular disease prevention tactics. Our patients have seen success in lowering or eliminating a wide variety of cardiovascular risk factors.
- Diagnostic testing
- Nutrition counseling
- Nutritional supplements
- Traditional Chinese herbs
- Infusion therapy
Providers
David Edelberg, MD
Medical Director & Internal Medicine Physician
Dr. Edelberg, board certified in Internal Medicine in 1974, began incorporating alternative therapies into his practice during the 1980’s. Since founding the parent company of WholeHealth Chicago in 1993, he has become nationally recognized as one of the pioneers of integrative medicine, the new medical specialty combining conventional medicine with alternative therapies.
Parisa Samsami, DC, DABCI
Functional Medicine Physician
Dr. Parisa Samsami is a Chiropractic Physician specializing in Functional Medicine. She has great success in treating patients unable to find answers in the traditional medical paradigm. She places a strong emphasis on patient education and believes that diet and lifestyle play an important role in achieving optimal health and chronic disease prevention.
Health Tips
You’re tired of being overweight, and you’ve been a victim of the tyranny of the last ten, twenty pounds or much more as long as you can remember. You’ve tried everything. You’ve been dieting and nothing happens that ever lasts except hunger. You exercise to exhaustion, lose some pounds and gain them back. No matter […]
If there’s one single symptom that brings patients most frequently into the offices of WholeHealth Chicago, it’s this: “I’m tired all the time and doctors can’t find anything wrong.” The “can’t find” you all are experiencing is the real problem of today’s health care system. It’s that notorious fifteen-minute medical encounter of primary care medicine: […]
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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 […]
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