Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Functional Medicine”
No one can argue that the technological advances this country has seen over the past century are anything short of remarkable. Several decades ago, you’d be deemed as a witch if you said you were able to, in the middle of the Mojave desert, make a phone call, watch the NCAA basketball tournament, send someone a quick note, pay your …
Do you know somebody who’s taking six, eight, or ten different medications? I know people who fit this description, and it frustrates us to no end. When you ask them what they’re for, they respond, “Well, this is my thyroid med, this is to lower my cholesterol, this is for my joint pain, this one’s to help me sleep, this is …
Everywhere I turn, I run into a woman who has a thyroid issue. Are you that woman? Are you the one who goes to your medical doctor who runs a thyroid panel and says you’re either “within range” with her numbers, or you’re hypothyroid. The doctor then proceeds to prescribe you Synthroid or another synthetic thyroid medication. Heck, you may …
Honest moment rant about something that upsets us for others with the growth of online social media over the past few years. In 2007 when I was extremely sick with metabolic damage – Hashimoto’s disease, adrenal fatigue, auto immune illness – fighting to figure out what was going on with my health with all the wrong answers and misdiagnosis from doctors, there was …
Aren’t we funny how we assume if we’re not getting the natural fat loss results we want, we must not be doing enough fitness, so we’ll just do more? And when the fat loss results still don’t come, we get frustrated and move from “I’ll do more” to “why I am bothering” & stop altogether, stumping our ability to progress. Where …
As a functional nutrition practitioner who competes as a natural women’s figure bodybuilding athlete nationally, you see a lot of athletes & professionals telling their clients to use all sorts of calorie-free, fat-free or sugar-free processed food items for caloric reduction as a weight management technique. As someone whose suffered from serious thyroid & adrenal illness, and been healed naturally …
One of the issues making people struggle with fat loss, improved healing and metabolic health imbalances, is lack of integrating recovery more effectively into your lifestyle & fitness approach, or program design. Living a lifestyle of constant, endless stress, OR over training your body in a state of constant stress, actually can keep you from living a fat loss & …
