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My 4-Week Celery Juice Challenge
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Two words: celery juice. As I’ve learned over the past few months, these simple words can trigger a range of thoughts, opinions, and strong emotions. Some people absolutely love and swear by celery juice, claiming it radically improved their health in countless ways. A surprising number of others literally gagged at the thought of celery…
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Personalized Functional Medicine Care Via My UltraWellness Center Colleagues
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Here at The UltraWellness Center, we take pride in our amazing staff. If you’re not familiar with our history, UWC was founded in 2004 to provide patients with a safe place to get to the root cause of their health problems. This clinic was created around my passion for Functional Medicine and taking a…
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Clean Beauty
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Self-care is an essential part of any wellness regime, and it should include the entire body. That’s why when it comes to taking good care of ourselves, we need to be mindful of the personal care and beauty products we use. You may have heard that what we put onto our bodies is just as…
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Getting to the Root | Episode 3 | Supporting the Immune System
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In our third episode of Getting to the Root, Dr. Elizabeth Boham and Physician Assistant Kristin Boyt explore how we can support the immune system. Cold and flu season is a great time of year to focus on immunity, but there are plenty of other reasons to make it a priority all year long, like…
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Why Brain Injury is Actually a Chronic Disease
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You never expect these things to happen in life. But last year, three days before Christmas, I experienced a traumatic brain injury. As a practicing Functional Medicine doctor who has been in the field for more than 20 years, I love what I do and take great care of my health. I never expected something…
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Could it be your thyroid?
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On paper, the thyroid, that small gland in your neck, may seem unimposing. However, the organ and the hormones it produces are more important to the functioning and wellbeing of the body than they may seem. Responsible for growth, metabolism, and the functioning of nearly every tissue in the body, your thyroid may be to…
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Cannabis Sativa: Old Medicine with New Popularity
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I love when medicine comes full circle and natural therapies that were used hundreds of years ago, or even thousands, become popular again. There is a wisdom in nature that stands the test of time. Cannabis sativa is a good example of this. There is now a large body of research that shows cannabis and…
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Getting to Know Our UltraTeam: A Personal Interview With Dr. George Papanicolaou
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What sparked your initial desire to pursue and practice Functional Medicine? When I was practicing conventional medicine, the emphasis was on treating the disease, not the whole person. The market forces of the health care system pushed me to see more patients in less time, which left me just enough time to name the disease…
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Is Intermittent Fasting Right for You?
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Have you wondered what all the recent fuss is around intermittent fasting? While it may appear to be the latest and greatest “diet,” keep in mind it’s a style of eating that has been around for as long as man has walked the earth. Our ancestors often experienced times of food deprivation, and indeed many…
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Getting To Know Our UltraTeam | A Personal Interview With Lisa Dreher, MS, RD, LDN
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What sparked your initial desire to pursue and practice Functional Medicine? It was a combination of things. From a young age, I witnessed several family members suffer from lifestyle-related diseases. I was compelled to find a way to help them as well as prevent myself from going down the same path. I also had health…