by functional | Apr 29, 2016 | Thoughts & Ideas
Remarkable things happen in the Spring… New Year’s Day is the day of resolutions, but the weight of winter is still upon us in the cold weather and for some that tends to stifle the best of intentions. But Spring. We are connected to this re-birth that is now...
by functional | Apr 6, 2016 | Functional Medicine, General Health & Wellness, Thoughts & Ideas
(This article originally appeared in April/May 2016 issue of Ozarks Living Magazine volume7, number2.) “Growing your own food is like printing your own money” says Ron Finley, the Guerilla Gardner of South Los Angeles in TED 2013. I am reminded of these words when a...
by functional | Mar 24, 2016 | Functional Medicine, General Health & Wellness, Thoughts & Ideas
Dorothy: Oh, will you help me? Can you help me? Glinda: You don’t need to be helped any longer. You’ve always had the power to go back to Kansas. Dorothy: I have? If you are an adult you’ve probably heard those famous words from Glinda, the Good Witch at...
by functional | Mar 2, 2016 | General Health & Wellness, Neurology
According to the Mayo Clinic Online Meralgia Paresthetica is a condition characterized by tingling, numbness and burning pain in the outer thigh. The cause of meralgia paresthetica is compression of the nerve that supplies sensation to the skin surface in that area...
by functional | Feb 11, 2016 | Functional Medicine, General Health & Wellness
A 2015 article in the journal Mitochondrion begins with the sentence, “Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome with unknown etiology.”[1] It goes on to describe three findings that are commonly present in skin biopsies of patients diagnosed with this condition:...
