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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
in WellnessSo 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…
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The Team Approach
in WellnessI 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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Taking a Break
It’s so important to take a pause once in a while. Have you ever been so busy with tasks and work that you let life just pass you by? You may not even realize how busy you are with everyday things until someone says something to you like, “When was the last time you…..?” As…
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Lab Spotlight: Testing for Food Sensitivities
People are often confused about the difference between food sensitivities and food allergies. Food Sensitivities occur when you have difficulty digesting a particular food. You may not even be aware that this particular food is causing issues at first and you may have symptoms such as intestinal gas, abdominal pain, constipation, or diarrhea among others.…
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Hormone Magic: Let’s Start With Testosterone
in WellnessTalking 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 they struggle with these symptoms. Is testosterone…
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The UWC Lisa’s Vlog Series: Our Secret Health Booster: The Heart
In a time when technology is capturing our attention at every turn, it’s more important than ever to understand how to tap into the greatest technology of all: our heart. In this latest UWC Lisa’s vlog episode, the Lisa’s explore the intelligence of the heart and strategies to tap into that intelligence. Bringing conscious awareness…
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Why Did I Get Sick? Is My Body Trying To Tell Me Something?
in WellnessEarlier 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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Time on Brain: The Willpower Muscle
in WellnessLast June my wife, Michelle, announced that she was going to run the Yankee Homecoming Ten Miler in July. It is a well-known race run annually as part of the Yankee Homecoming celebration in Newburyport, MA. It is notorious for hills and sweltering heat. She had not run in twenty years, but with training, she…
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Getting to the Root of Male Hormone Imbalances
in WellnessWe 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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The UWC Lisa’s Vlog Series | The Power of Belief and Our Thoughts
At the UltraWellness Center, we recognize that there are many different ways for you to nourish your mind, body, and spirit. That’s why we are so excited to share our newest series, “The UWC Lisa’s Vlog Series” featuring UWC Functional Nutritionist Lisa Dreher and Functional Medicine Registered Nurse Lisa Nicotera. In this series, the Lisa’s…