Conditions
Adrenal Fatigue
The adrenals produce hormones that help balance your blood sugar and manage your daily ebbs and flows of energy.Low adrenal function is often very common, but often missed by standard blood tests. Low levels of adrenal cortisol can result in the following: hypoglycemia, fatigue, muscle aches, low blood sugar, sugar or salt craving, shakiness relieved with eating, moodiness, food sensitivities, allergies, recurrent infections, dizzy when standing, low blood pressure, decrease ability to handle stress, decreased cognitive ability or “brain fog”, swollen ankles that are worse at night, hypoglycemia under stress, a need to lie down or rest after psychological or emotional stress, muscular weakness, difficulty getting out of bed, wiped out with exercise and/or inability to tolerate thyroid replacement.
Chronic Fatigue & Fibromyalgia
Symptoms of these diseases include flu-like fatigue and pain that can be severe, a constant feeling of exhaustion, body aches, muscle stiffness and pain, insomnia, cognitive dysfunction “fibro-fog”, and irritable bowel syndrome. Oftentimes any combination of these symptoms can diminish your quality of life and in severe cases can inhibit a person from being able to carry out basic daily life functions.
Lyme Disease
Lyme disease is often missed as a cause of chronic fatigue syndrome.Initially discovered 30 years ago in Lyme, Connecticut, Lyme disease has become the undiagnosed and untreated epidemic of the 21st century. While it is often attributed to tick bites, Lyme can be transmitted through mosquito bites as well. It is a bacterial infection caused by the Borrelia burgdorferi. These bacteria can mimic virtually any disease, which is why Lyme is often misdiagnosed. Anyone with chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia need to consider Lyme disease as the cause. Because the symptoms are so variable, patients are usually not even considered for testing or treatment. Even if tested, standard testing will miss over 90% of the cases of chronic Lyme disease.Treatment of chronic Lyme disease can be very problematic as the Borrelia bacteria can transform from the standard cell wall form to a non-cell wall form and also into a treatment resistant cyst. A mulit-system integrative approach can dramatically increase the likelihood of successful treatment. This includes using a combination of synergistic antibiotics, nutraceuticals, anticoagulants, hormonal therapies and prescription lysosomotropics.
Thyroid Disorders
Standard testing does not pick up 80% of patients who have low thyroid.Thyroid deficiency is extremely common but goes undetected by standard thyroid tests. The thyroid is located just below your Adam’s apple at the front of your neck. Thyroid disorders can affect your sense of well-being, metabolism and ability to ward off viruses and bacteria. Some of the most common symptoms of low thyroid are weight gain, depression, fatigue, non-refreshing sleep, anxiety and panic attacks, brittle nails, constipation, diffuse hair loss, sensitivity to cold, significantly calloused heels, chronic yeast infections and even infertility.We specialize in comprehensive testing to properly diagnose any thyroid deficiencies which may exist. We treat hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism, Graves disease, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis and thyroid nodules by using integrative and prescription therapies to reverse the underlying immune dysfunction that can the cause of the these conditions. Our treatment options for the more common hypothyroidism condition are state of the art. We customize and compound bioidentical thyroid which exactly mimics what your body should normally produce. The amazing results include weight loss, enhanced sense of well being, resolution of hair loss, improved skin tone, increased energy, enhanced immunity, which wards off chronic infections, and significantly reduced risk for cancer and heart disease.