A Holistic Approach to Care
My paradigm of care is to think out of the box, take the whole unique person into consideration, look for underlying causes, and provide solutions that are safe, individualized, impactful, and empowering.
Your genes are not necessarily your destiny.
Most chronic health conditions stem from only a few root causes.
While genes predispose you, the exposures that you give to your genes throughout your life are the major determining factors of whether health conditions will develop.
Your lifestyle factors have been repeatedly proven to directly impact whether you will tend toward inflammation, oxidation and immune reactions. The most pressing lifestyle factors include:
what you do or don’t eat
how fit you are
how you balance stress
the toxicity your mind and body’s environment
how much and well you sleep
Every individual has his or her own unique needs and clinical presentations.
Genetic uniqueness, for the most part, comes from tiny informational changes, like typos, in the DNA that makes us have more or less requirements for nutrients, more or less tolerance to environmental pollutants and infectious agents, and more or less of a threshold to stress.
All the body's systems work in sync and are dependent on each other!
The same symptom in different people can come from completely different underlying causes, while the same underlying cause can present as different symptoms.
While many medications are beneficial, it’s important to remember that they don’t often address the root causes, they can have significant side effects, and can cause nutritional deficiencies. Having a comprehensive strategy is key.
My prescriptions keep the whole body, mind and lifestyle in perspective. They typically involve the missing links of anti-inflammatory nutrition, stress management, exercise, musculoskeletal care, gentle and natural detoxification methods, ensuring that hormones are staying in balance, that digestive functions are working efficiently, and that on the energetic level, the body is able to heal.
Having been trained as a Rehabilitation Medicine physician, I have the ability to successfully and comprehensively create health rehabilitation programs that allow my patients to function and feel better.
I work in partnership with my patients and often coordinate a team with other likeminded practitioners to support the endeavor. Patients are left with not only better health, but tools and information they can carry with them for life.
Some of the specialty labs I commonly utilize to help understand your “inner terrain”:
Being able to test for nutritional needs, microbiome imbalances and strengths, drivers of inflammation and immune over-activation, hormone metabolism, comprehensive heart and metabolic health risks, and more, has been invaluable in helping people understand themselves and their most effective next steps in a personalized action plan.
Cleveland Heart Lab, Genova Diagnostics, Vibrant Wellness, Cyrex Laboratories,
Precision Analytical, Infectolab, Oral DNA
