Functional Medicine
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Your Lab Tests Are Normal But You Feel Sick: What Your Doctor Is Missing
Conventional medicine approaches illness as a name it, blame it, and tame it game. But these labels or diagnoses are just names we associate with a collection of symptoms. They have nothing to do with why you have those symptoms—with the root causes of the “disease.” Conversely, just because your standard lab panel comes back…
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The Functional Medicine Approach To Oral Health
Oral health is connected to full-body health in myriad ways. In fact, conditions ranging from obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and even dementia are all directly connected to poor oral health. In this House Call episode, Dr. Hyman speaks with Dr. Todd LePine about how to address dental health from a…
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The 3 Pillars of Health
In this video, Lisa Nicotera, RN and Functional Medicine Health Coach and Sudha Carolyn Lundeen, RN, E-RYT, offer an experiential window into the Three Pillars of Health: Body, Mind, Spirit. You will be guided through a centering and stress-reducing tool for each area that you can immediately incorporate into your daily life.
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The Turn Around: Part I
It’s really easy to get caught up in fear right now. Lots of folks are panicky. I felt a little myself when I saw the empty grocery store shelves. No chicken, no toilet paper, no hemp milk. I felt afraid, just for a moment. Then, I just decided, not to let fear get the best…
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We Are Here to Help You Navigate These Times
Through these uncertain times, we want to support you by providing practical ways to deal with the fear and stress that many of us our facing. Starting with this video created by UWC Registered Nurse: Lisa Nicotera and Patient Navigator: Doreen Soha, where they illustrate how to calm your nerves through the practices of Tapping…
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The UltraWellness Center Doctors Interview Compilation on “The Doctor’s Farmacy” Podcast
There are so many angles we need to look at with gut health and they can tell us an amazing amount of information about the rest of the body. Our gut bacteria regulate many of our bodily functions, from creating vitamins to controlling our immune system, our brain function and of course, our metabolism and…
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A Fresh Perspective: Advice From My Patient
Blogs. I love them. I love reading them, and I love writing them. They are a relatively quick and easy way to spread useful information and share ideas, both old and new, from a unique perspective. Yet, I’ve never written a blog from the perspective of somebody else, which is exactly what I want to…
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The UWC Lisa’s Vlog Series | The Healing Properties of Sound
Healing can come at the most unexpected times in unexpected ways. Each one of the senses, including touch, sight, hearing, smell, and taste, all provide opportunities for deep human experiences and moments of healing. In this Vlog episode, the Lisa’s explore healing opportunities available through hearing and sound. Listen as they share their own experience with…
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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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Dr. Elizabeth Boham on The Doctor’s Farmacy: How to Find the Real Cause of Your Disease and How to Fix It
So many Functional Medicine practitioners like myself have gone through their own healing crisis. For me, it was a total brain and body breakdown 30 years ago due to mercury poisoning from when I lived in China. For my good friend and fellow Functional Medicine doctor Elizabeth Boham, it was triple-negative breast cancer diagnosed at…