Call an Integrative Physician ·     “We’ve done everything we can” is the response you get when you’ve tested, had some treatments, and still no further ahead in your quest for vitality. Many of us start chalking our problems up to ‘getting older’ but old age is no diagnosis! I think we all may set … Read more

I take a deeper dive into your mental health issues to come up with a plan to turn your brain around. First, I am a physician, and if medications are needed to manage a crisis, medication will come to the battle. However, some of our previous understanding about serotonin, dopamine, GABA, glutamate, and acetylcholine neurotransmitters … Read more

I work in a cute walk-in/ acute care on the coastal Mid-Atlantic area in the summers. The walk-in is owned and operated by a private, previously family-owned hospital system that truly is a community gem since its inception. The patient demographic morphed from itinerant travelers and beach vacationers to permanent residents who migrated to the … Read more

If you could slip one skin beauty trick up your sleeve, it would be the avoidance of sun damage.  Those who have less pigment (melanin) are the highest risk for the harms of the sun’s rays, right?  Yes and no. There may be some surprising subgroups who are at high risk for skin cancers.  The … Read more

Quite simply, antidepressants may not be enough to get depression under control. We will discuss adjunctive therapies to add in addition to antidepressants when needed. In many cases, the antidepressants can be eliminated over time. ·     Lifestyle management is at the epicenter of functional medicine. Functional medicine is simply attempting to get the body … Read more

The fingers are being pointed at social media as the biggest cause for medical misinformation.  Clearly the pandemic brought out these criticisms to the forefront.  There is  a “Journal of Medical Internet Research” borne from the need to have unbiased, scientifically based, but understandable information that the average patient can understand.  I have said in … Read more

Imagine living in a society that is completely congruent with your style of thinking. Currently our globe is significantly divided on big topics, and rather than the menticide, bullying, mandating, and gaslighting that is going on to push an agenda, take some moments to dream of what it may look like to live amongst your … Read more

Compounding pharmacies are at the heart and soul of individualized medicine.  I could not do much of my functional and integrative medicine without them and you’ll soon understand why you may want to convert some of your prescriptions over to a compounded formulation.  We as people and as patients have unique DNA, environments that influence … Read more

This new year has to get better than last year, right?  We are coming back into society and starting to live again, but are there some health habits that led to some untoward body consequences?  Did you move less, eat more, sleep terribly, socially isolate, or ignore any symptoms you were having?  Or, God forbid, … Read more