Wack-a-Mole Healthcare vs Functional Medicine

?   Healthcare today has mostly become a game of Whack-a-Mole where medications or supplements are used to handle symptoms that the patient is having. While this can be good for the short haul it unfortunately does not lend itself to finding out what the cause of the problem was […]

Diabetes and Neuropathy

Approximately one half of peripheral neuropathy patients (people with pain and/or numbness in hands or feet) have diabetes as the cause of their condition.  In addition, for the 25-33% of peripheral neuropathy patient’s who do not have a known cause to their symptoms, pre-diabetes accounts for upwards of 40% of […]

Thyroid Disorders on the Rise?

Why has the topic of thyroid become so prevalent?  I myself have Hashimoto’s thyroiditis- a problem I probably suffered symptoms for some 25 years before a correct diagnosis and protocol dramatically improved my health. An estimated 27 million Americans suffer from thyroid related illnesses, the majority of them women, and […]

Stress – Why adrenals are the wrong target

When a person experiences “stress” for long periods of time, it’s now well documented that this hormonal response contributes to most if not all chronic pain syndromes. Whether it’s an older person whose stress response is from an inflamed brain and presents itself as poor brain endurance, achy joints, and […]

Hashimoto’s and Hypothyroidism – Are Stress and Emotional Traumas the Cause? (Part 2)

In part one we reviewed the known “causes” and “triggers” of Hashimoto’s and hypothyroidism as presented in the current research and as reflected in our chronic pain practice. We singled out emotional traumas (chronic fight/flight PTSD type responses) as in our clinical experience the most common causative factor. Now let’s […]