Two Questions to Ask Your Doctor Before You Agree to a Medication

Twelve years ago when I still worked in the trenches of conventional medicine (before I spun off to start my own integrative and functional medicine practice), I figured there had to be a better way to fill the gaps that patients encounter between what they struggle with and what mainstream medicine offers. Not everyone can…

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The Pusher as Exerciser: 10 Strategies that Help!

In other words, are you hard core? Use whatever word that speaks to you most: fierce, badass, someone with a strong personal code? I bet you are similar to me. Maybe you like to push yourself to your limits, to feel that good burn of hard work, to sweat and then revel in the endorphins…

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How's your trust fund? I mean…your trust fund in your bones

It’s Valentine’s Day. Time to love up your bones. What’s that? You’re asking “why?”  “Why” is not a spiritual question. “How?” is a spiritual question. But I digress. When I first learned that women reach peak bone mass at age 30 to 35, I thought: Help! It’s like a trust fund that peaks too early and ruins the kid.  Later…

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