As a Naturopathic Doctor (and Functional Medicine Devotee), I have been privileged to work with many people suffering from a variety of disease labels. The goal of treatment is always the same: to seek to restore optimal function of the...
Breast Cancer & The Power of Vegetables
According to the American Cancer Society, the current statistics for breast cancer are as follows:In 2009, an estimated 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer will be diagnosed among women, as well as an estimated 62,280 additional cases of in...
Heart Disease Related to Drugs?
Webmd recently posted an article associating the risk of common pain drugs to cardiovascular death. The original study, published by Circulation on June 8th, 2010, consisted of following 4,614,807 healthy Danish individuals from January 1997 to 2005. After controlling for...
Your thyroid, your health
According to webmd, approximately 25 million Americans have low thyroid function with about half being undiagnosed. The most common cause of hypothyroidism, low thyroid function, is related to an autoimmune disorder called hashimoto's thyroiditis. In this disorder, the body's immune...