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…

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…

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…

What first drew you into the Functional Medicine World? I was first introduced to Functional Medicine when I got a job at Canyon Ranch in Lenox, Mass.  This was where I met Mark Hyman, Todd Lepine and Kathie Swift. I went to my first Functional Medicine training program…

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…

Talking about testosterone with my male patients is becoming very common. The most frequent reasons cited for seeking testosterone therapy are no sex drive, no muscles, and no energy. In this stressed out, sleepless, toxic world of ours in which men are living longer it is no surprise…