Elizabeth Boham, MD
Dive into expert articles, insightful blogs, and patient stories to empower your health journey.
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How To Master Hunger And Cravings
So many patients feel their food cravings have gotten out of control and a lack of willpower is driving their weight gain, generally making them feel like crap. But, the truth is, this is not a matter of willpower. Our industrial food industry produces food-like substances specifically made to hook our taste buds with every…
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The Functional Medicine Approach To Precocious Puberty
Hormone disruption is a growing concern, especially for children as many are reaching puberty at a younger age than ever before. Just under one in four children are facing some sort of hormonal dysregulation that impacts not only the onset of puberty, but also presents an increased risk for conditions such as obesity, infertility, endometriosis,…
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Underweight, Overtired, And Malnourished: How To Get Your Health Back On Track
The sad reality is that Americans suffer from massive nutritional deficiencies and our food is primarily to blame. These nutrient deficiencies are showing up in underweight and overweight people alike. Aside from a reduction in nutrient density in our food, we don’t eat enough whole, unprocessed foods and instead have diets rich in refined sugars…
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Is Lactose Intolerance Causing Your Gut Issues?
Most of us grew up hearing that dairy, and especially milk, is crucial for good health. In reality, dairy isn’t the vital source of calcium and strong bones that we were led to believe. Dairy can cause digestive problems for the majority of people with lactose intolerance, along with a range of other symptoms in…
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How To Treat And Prevent Colon Polyps Using Functional Medicine
Colon cancer is one of the most prevalent types of cancer in the United States. While traditionally a disease of older adults, we are sadly seeing an increase in colon cancer incidence and mortality in young people. Screening for colon polyps with regular colonoscopies is an important way to access your risk of developing colorectal…
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Do You Have Excess Belly Fat? Why It’s A Problem And What You Can Do About It
You might be surprised to learn that not all body fat is created equal; where the fat is on your body makes a big difference when it comes to your overall health. The fat inside your belly is called “VAT” or visceral adipose tissue and this type of fat is particularly dangerous. When you begin…
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How To Tell If Mercury Toxicity Is The Cause Of Your Mysterious Symptoms
Changes in environmental mercury levels have been dramatic in recent decades; industrial exposure to mercury is significant and mostly comes from coal burning and chlor-alkali plants. The more mercury we are exposed to, the more we are likely to be toxic. The main ways that humans are exposed to mercury are from contaminated fish and…
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How To Prevent And Treat Gestational Diabetes With Functional Medicine
Gestational diabetes affects up to 10% of women during pregnancy. It can have long-term adverse effects for both the mother and the child. Not only does it put the baby at risk for above-average birth weight, but gestational diabetes in the mother can also lead to an increased risk of insulin resistance, diabetes, and weight…
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Getting Rid of Cold Sores and Canker Sores
While there is a difference between cold sores and canker sores, they are similar in that common occurrence of either is an indication that something is out of balance in the body. Most of us have had canker sores at one time or another. They usually occur at the side of your mouth, by your…
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Magical Magnesium
Magnesium is an essential mineral that is critical for many physiologic processes in the human body. Unfortunately, 68% of Americans are not meeting the Recommended Dietary Intake (RDI) of magnesium on a daily basis. Remember that the RDI is the amount of a nutrient felt to be sufficient to meet the requirements for most healthy…
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Five Tips for Building a Better Immune System
What we do every day to stay well can really impact the strength of our immune system. You can’t stop every infection from invading your body, but you can do a lot to support your immunity to be its best. Right now we’re hearing a lot about the coronavirus. This is actually a family of…
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Getting to the Root | Male Hormones Part 2
If you’re new to the series, each month we share a short video that explores the most pressing questions around health that our patients ask the most. Here at The UltraWellness Center, we often have men struggling with difficult symptoms that can be traced to hormonal imbalances. Last month, in part one of Getting to…
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The Functional Medicine Lifestyle
Functional Medicine is more than just medicine, it’s a lifestyle. We invite you to read on and learn more about how we approach healing through a Functional Medicine Model directly via my personal hands-on experience treating patients at The UltraWellness Center. Why Functional Medicine? People often come in frustrated about their current health circumstances because…
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The Team Approach
I feel so blessed to work alongside such an amazing team at The UltraWellness Center. It is so interesting to reflect on where your path leads you and how I arrived at this dream job! In 2000, I did an elective rotation at Canyon Ranch in Lenox Massachusetts. It was there that I met Dr.…
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Why Did I Get Sick? Is My Body Trying To Tell Me Something?
Earlier this year, I got a sudden cold and lost my voice. For the past 15 years, I have been focusing on taking care of myself by taking the right supplements for me, giving my body time to rest, managing how I respond to stress, and getting enough sleep. Because of this, I don’t usually…
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Getting to the Root of Male Hormone Imbalances
We hear a lot about hormonal imbalances in women, but what about men? Though women tend to have more frequent fluctuations, men can also experience a wide variety of imbalances and hormonal changes as they age. On this month’s episode of Getting to the Root, Dr. Elizabeth Boham and Dr. George Papanicolaou break down this…
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Got Acne? What You Put IN Your Body is More Important Than What You Put on Your Skin
My daughter and I were talking the other day about acne. She was asking me about products to wash her face with and which would be best for her skin. I realized that even though she listens to me go on and on about the importance of nutrition, she too thought that the products she…
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Getting to the Root: Taking the Overwhelm Out of Autoimmunity
Chances are, you know someone with autoimmunity or maybe even have it yourself. Rates are on the rise in epidemic proportions with a staggering 80% of autoimmune diseases occurring in women. Since this is an issue we see often here at The UltraWellness Center, we thought it would be a great topic to tackle in…