Modern life is bustling with innovative technologies for a convenient living; online access to news and information, timesaving transport, fast foods, cleaning products that make your home sparkle, and cosmetics that leave us feeling ‘our best selves’. This improved...
Functional Medicine can treat Chronic Illness Functional Medicine. When illness becomes chronic, it starts to affect multiple body systems. Chronic pain and ill health affects the body, but also the mind. The distress and worry that it causes creates even more stress...
Quick Answer Heavy metals—particularly mercury, arsenic, and cadmium—can significantly disrupt thyroid hormone production, conversion, and regulation, often causing symptoms even when standard thyroid tests such as TSH appear “normal.” Mercury interferes with iodine...
Did you know your thoughts affect how much fat you burn while you’re at work?… or how much muscle gain you get from your gym workouts?… or how your blood sugar is regulated after a meal? Did you know your thoughts can change your brain, your cells and your...
Copper, Anxiety & Adrenal fatigue Copper, anxiety & adrenal fatigue are a nasty little threesome that can greatly affect day-to-day life. Clinically, I see copper to be a large contributor to anxiety, because it converts dopamine to adrenaline. This will...
The Melatonin/ Light Connection Like most animals, our bodies are triggered to sleep via the setting of the sun, and we wake when it pops back up again the following day. But we are far removed from our caveman days. If we need light in the evenings, we don’t scour...
