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What I learned from the ‘Father of Biohacking’

I got the opportunity last month to go to a functional medicine and compounding pharmacy conference where one of the keynote speakers was none other than Dave Asprey. For those that don’t know, Dave is considered the ‘father of the biohacking’ movement. Biohacking the idea of using any and all tools, whether lifestyle or technology …

Drink Up!..Like your Bones depend on it!

A key component that can happen as women start to enter peri-menopause and menopause is a loss of bone health, often diagnosed as osteopenia or even osteoporosis. While you may have heard that good bone health is easy; just take a Calcium with some Vitamin D pill and your good to go; It’s WAY more …

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Perspective is EVERYTHING!

Gonna get a little personal with ya: I wanted to share a perspective shift and explain why I’m now grateful for the wart on my knee. Wait, What?! Sounds pretty gross, right? So, here’s the deal, I’ve had a wart on my knee for probably the last 20+ years. I’ve done everything to try and …

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Root Causes of Hair loss

Ask Doug: Why is my Hair falling out?!? This month I got a great question asking for why a person’s hair may fall out. I thought I’d give some ideas and what functional medicine would have to say about it. Hair falling out can be extremely frustrating and getting to the root cause can make …

Magnesium for one, Magnesium for ALL!

Magnesium is used in over 300 enzymes in the body, so our body is using it up constantly. Not only is it in use all the time, but there are many characteristics of our modern lifestyle that are depleting it. For example, stress, certain medications (stomach acid blockers, water pills, etc), and drinks such as …

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WildFire Support

We’ve experienced a number of alarming days in our air quality due to the smoke from burning Canadian wildfires. The Air Quality index measures 5 different substances in the air including: Ozone, particle count (what we’re concerned about with the current fires), carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide. AirNow.gov analyzes these data points and …

Principles of Health

In describing Functional Medicine to colleagues and clients, I like to present a few basic tenets that drive my practice. These are core beliefs that guide the ‘WHY’ when we are making lifestyle changes. When you start to change your mindset from ‘I have this disease’ to one of ‘What is my body trying to …