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functional medicine

  • Cardiometabolic Health

    A functional medicine perspective on cardiometabolic health emphasizes identifying and addressing root causes — including chronic inflammation, gut dysbiosis, mitochondrial dysfunction, metabolic inflexibility, nutritional deficiencies, and environmental/lifestyle stressors — rather than treating individual risk factors in isolation. Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Metabolic Inflexibility Mitochondria continuously adapt through fusion and fission; when this balance is disrupted, excessive…

  • Genetic SNPs

    Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) are the most common type of genetic mutation that occurs in humans, representing a difference in just a single nucleotide (a single building block of DNA). Testing for SNPs is an increasingly important part of nutritional and preventive medicine because it helps to identify a person’s relative risk for certain diseases…

  • What’s one thing that affects all aspects of health?

    Poor sleep harms health by increasing all-cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic disorders. It impairs immune function, raises inflammation, and elevates accident risk. Cognitive and emotional effects include memory loss, slower reaction time, and higher depression/anxiety. Poor sleep also accelerates skin aging and reduces quality of life. See our prior post for tips on improving…

  • Chronic Pain

    Neck pain • Back Pain • IBS pain • shoulder pain Factors contributing to pain and pain perception SittingSitting too long is one of the worst culprits. We often don’t notice until we try to get up and feel all those aches and pains. Ideally the longest anyone should be sitting is one hour. MovingMoving…