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What Is Brain Fog? Understanding the Causes, Supports and When to Look Deeper
“Brain fog” is one of the most common—and frustrating—complaints heard in integrative and functional health practices. People often describe feeling mentally sluggish, forgetful, unfocused or simply not like themselves. Although brain fog is not a formal medical diagnosis, it is a very real experience and often an important signal that something in the body or ...
Light and Our Eyes
How UV, the visible spectrum and infrared wavelengths may help or harm vision. Light is fundamental not only to vision but also to human physiology. Yet different wavelengths of light can have profoundly different effects on the eyes—some healing, some harmful and some simply misunderstood. As an integrative neuro-ophthalmologist, I frequently encounter patients and also ...
Nitric Oxide and Men’s Health: The Molecular Bridge Between the Heart and Sexual Function
For decades, nitric oxide (NO) was known as a fleeting gas that helped vessels relax. Today, it stands as one of the most important molecular bridges between cardiovascular and sexual health, an axis that defines quality of life and longevity in men. What was once dismissed as an obscure signaling molecule has become central to ...
A Powerful New (and Old!) Treatment for Pain, POTS, MCAS, Lyme and Postinfectious Fibromyalgia
Having studied and treated these conditions for almost 50 years, since a nasty viral syndrome triggered my fibromyalgia and left me homeless in 1975, it’s been both a blessing and a challenge to see so many treatments. On the plus side, most cases can be effectively treated (by natural practitioners). On the other hand, sorting ...
Natural Ozempic: What’s the Truth Behind the Hype?
In recent years, GLP-1 (glucagon-like peptide-1) agonists like Ozempic have revolutionized the pharmaceutical landscape, originally developed to manage type 2 diabetes but gaining widespread attention for their ability to promote weight loss. This secondary benefit has fueled demand and inspired a parallel trend in the natural health industry: the marketing of supplements as “natural GLP-1 ...
Getting Back to Basics with Nuance
Over the decades, we’ve seen countless diet and life trends rise and fall—each often accompanied by a glorified body ideal. In reality, there’s rarely one “correct” way to be, yet marketing and media can greatly influence which ideas gain popularity. As our world shifted from limited internet access to having vast information at our fingertips—through ...
Navigating Perimenopause
Perimenopause—otherwise known as the wild rollercoaster ride leading up to menopause—can feel daunting. It usually kicks off in your 40s (sometimes even late 30s), and will bring along a bunch of changes, thanks to shifting hormones. The good news? You’re not alone, and there are some well-studied supplements that may help mitigate the symptoms. Let’s ...
Non-anemic Iron Deficiency and Safe Iron Supplementation
Iron deficiency and anemia…haven’t we been down this road before? By this modern era, should we not be able to avoid such a seemingly obvious and directly influenced nutritional deficiency? In less developed countries with more infectious disease exposure, parasitic infections and malnutrition, the rates of anemia range from 30 to 40 percent; mostly in ...
Helping Patients Through the Allergy Season
For both patients and practitioners, finding effective allergy treatment that doesn’t cause side effects can seem like trying to solve an unsolvable mystery. Whether you have patients who deal with allergies intensely during a short season, or patients who suffer for months on end, you’ll want to give them options that don’t leave them feeling ...
Exploring Integrative Approaches to Age-related Macular Degeneration
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of vision loss in individuals over the age of 50. An estimated 200 million people are affected worldwide; this number is expected to grow to 288 million by the year 2040.1 Because the eye is a direct extension of the brain and thus part of the central ...
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