Why you need a diversified gut microbiome
Make sure your patients understand the connection between diet and the microbiome. Taking probiotics and antimicrobials is useless without dietary changes.
The impact of some common vitamin deficiencies
Subclinical vitamin deficiencies are largely being ignored today. This article explores some vitamins you may find clinically useful.
The connection between anxiety and inflammation
Research findings reveal the root causes of anxiety and inflammation and what it means for DCs treating their patients.
New gut research further explores connection with immunity
The key to resolving many health problems is to improve the integrity of the intestinal lining (address “leaky gut”). Here’s what recent research tells us.
A complete oil strategy for getting your omega-3s and more
Americans consume far more omega-6 fatty acids than omega-3s, with the ratio being in excess of 16:1. Both types have their place.
How vitamin D deficiency affects your immune system
After decades of being terrified of the sun (don’t go outside without wearing SPF 99 and a flannel shirt), there seems to be a lot of vitamin D deficiency. Vitamin D3 can be formed when a chemical reaction occurs in human skin, when 7-dehydrocholesterol is broken down by the sun’s UVB light.
Get your functional medicine practice started
Medicine treats disease. Functional medicine is the art of finding underlying causes and restoring balance.
Start a wellness testing program
Starting a wellness program in your office is the best way to get started with functional medicine. It is a good way to begin to treat more than musculoskeletal problems. It is vital that you do so because traditional medicine is failing miserably at treating chronically ill people.
Depression and inflammation: how to treat the patient and not the disease
There are options prior to aggressively manipulating the body’s biochemistry with a drug for depression and inflammation …
Functional medicine and diet: fixing the major U.S. medical system flaw
We need to avoid duplicating medical drug system flaws with chiropractic care, functional medicine and diet
