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The Best Way To Reduce IBS Symptoms Is By Changing Your Diet. Here's How
Changing your diet and adopting mind-body practices can help.
How This Doctor Finally Diagnosed His Lyme Disease
After years of suffering, it finally clicked.
What Living With Lyme Disease Taught Me About Hope
"Mom, are you ever going to get better?" I was filled with anxiety and sadness. The truth was, I didn't know if I would ever get better. But I didn't...
5 Ways Functional Medicine Can Transform Your Health
"We know the best medicine is at the end of our forks."
A Cause For Chronic Fatigue You Haven't Considered + 14 Ways To Fix It
No joke, it might be herpes.
The Way Yoga Helped Me Cope With My Autoimmune Disease
How one yogi let vulnerability prevail during a health catastrophe.
What You Need To Know About Lyme Disease + A Natural Approach To Healing
You've probably been hearing a lot about Lyme lately — after all, the rate of infections has surged in recent years. Here's what you should know about...
Unexplained Health Problems? It Could Be Autoimmune Reactivity
I find there are countless people who aren't sick enough to be labeled with an autoimmune disease but are still damaged by the effects of autoimmune...
What I Wish Everyone Knew About The Thyroid: A Functional MD Explains
This little butterfly-shaped gland located in your neck affects everything. Here’s what you should know about the thyroid and your overall well-being.
Why I Don’t Recommend An Annual Physical
If you pay a visit to your primary care physician every year, you know what annual exams are like: you take time off work, wait in an office for an...
I Was 26 And Healthy. Here's How A Routine Dentist Visit Saved My Life
In the spring of 2014, I was 26 years old, working toward my bachelor’s degree in human resource management, working full time, and engaged to be...
7 Radical Life Changes I Made When I Was Given A Cancer Death Sentence
No, I wasn’t on death row — but it sure felt like it when I was sentenced with Stage 4 lung cancer back in February 2012.
Why Stress From Your Childhood Is Hurting Your Health Today + How To Heal
We’ve long known that suffering physical or sexual abuse in childhood negatively affects mental health for life. But recently, researchers have...
10 Signs You Might Have A Thyroid Problem
What you need to know about the thyroid gland.
What It's Really Like To Have Candida
Dealing with candida has become its own funny, uncomfortable little exercise in mindfulness
9 Simple Tips To Eat More Fruits & Veggies Every Day
We all have heard some variation of this nutritional advice since we were kids: “Eat your veggies, finish your fruit.” It's abundantly clear that...
6 Things Everyone Should Know About Acid Reflux
You've probably heard of acid reflux and its classic symptom, heartburn. But did you know that acid reflux can cause problems not just in your...
How Tapping Can Help Relieve Chronic Pain
What is tapping and how can it help?
13 Signs You Have A Thyroid Problem + What To Do About It
Low thyroid function, or hypothyroidism, affects around 20 million Americans, and 1 in 8 women will experience a thyroid issue in her lifetime.
5 Concepts That Will Revolutionize Western Medicine
Over the last decade, a shift has been taking place in health care. This shift has been fueled by changes in our understanding of human biology as a...