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Fibromyalgia

May 26
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Why Coffee Feels Necessary: How Daily Caffeine May Rewire Your Energy, Stress, and Brain Chemistry

By Fatigue, Functional Medicine
Why Coffee Feels Necessary: How Daily Caffeine May Rewire Your Energy, Stress, and Brain Chemistry Is your morning coffee helping you—or keeping you dependent? For millions of people, the day doesn’t truly begin until that first cup of coffee. In fact, many people joke: “Don’t talk to me until I’ve had my coffee.” But what if there’s more truth to…
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Feb 16
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Sleep and Insulin: The Overlooked Key to Weight Loss and Metabolic Health

By Diabetes, Fatigue, Functional Medicine, Weight Loss
If you are struggling with stubborn weight gain, blood sugar instability, insulin resistance, or type 2 diabetes, there’s one foundational factor that often gets overlooked: Sleep. Most people think about food, exercise, or supplements — but rarely do they consider how powerfully sleep regulates metabolism. In functional medicine, we look upstream. And one of the most important upstream regulators of…
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Mar 06
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Has fibromyaliga left you feeling hopeless?

By Fibromyalgia
READ ON!!! TOP TEN REASONS WHY YOU CONTINUE TO STRUGGLE WITH FIBROMYALGIA AND WHAT YOUR DOCTOR IS DOING WRONG 1. Auto Immunity is overlooked or mistreated Everyone who walks through the door of my clinic has the same priorities. Here they are: 1-     Auto Immunity 2-     Blood Sugar 3-     Anemia 4-     Gut and Liver function 5-     Fatty acid metabolism Auto…
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Mar 06
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Fibromyalgia Treatment Success Secret #1:

By Fibromyalgia
Lab Testing Ranges are EXTREMELY Broad! Why do you still have symptoms when your lab tests are normal?  Why do you continue to suffer with extreme fatigue and unrelenting pain when the M.D. has told you that all of your lab tests are “normal.”  The answer is because the M.D.s lab tests are extremely broad.  The ranges very WIDELY! Let…
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Mar 06
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Fibromyalgia Treatment Success Secret #2:

By Fibromyalgia
Fibromyalgia can be caused by an Auto Immune Condition.   An autoimmune condition is where your immune system is attacking a part of your body, and in your case, it is most likely attacking multiple systems in your body including your thyroid gland, adrenal gland, nerves, joints and muscles.  This is why you suffer with constant pain and chronic fatigue.…
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Mar 06
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Fibromyalgia Treatment Success Secret #3:

By Fibromyalgia
GET YOUR THYROID TESTED…NOW!   I have treated thousands of fibromyalgia patients over the years and I have yet to see a fibromyalgia patient in which there thyroid wasn’t involved!  Think about it, your thyroid controls your body metabolism, it HAS TO BE INVOLVED!  The primary reason that I see patients suffering from fibromyalgia is a condition in which their…
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Mar 06
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Fibromyalgia Treatment Success Secret #4:

By Fibromyalgia
How to know if you are autoimmune! How do you know if you're autoimmune?  How do you know if your immune system is attacking your body?  Well…we just talked about the fact that we can run tests on your thyroid, specifically TPO and TGB antibodies, to see if your immune system is attacking it along with running the immune panels.…
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Mar 06
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Fibromyalgia Treatment Success Secret #5:

By Fibromyalgia
Know the Autoimmune Triggers! One of the most common questions I get is…”How did I develop this autoimmune condition?” Well…it's pretty much genetics and the environment.  It's a matter of what came first, the chicken or the egg?  We all know that genetically, you may be at risk for developing certain problems and/or conditions. Then there are environmental factors, one…
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Mar 06
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Fibromyalgia Treatment Success Secret #6:

By Fibromyalgia
PROLACTIN Prolactin is a hormone that’s made by your pituitary gland.  High levels of prolactin suppress TSH or Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone.  Prolactin is balanced by progesterone and dopamine, so when people have a dopamine deficiency, or progesterone deficiency, their prolactin will increase, and that will decrease the function of the pituitary’s production of thyroid-stimulating hormone. The imbalance will show up on…
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