Dr. Sharlin Responds: GMOs Really Aren’t That Bad, Right?

by functional | Jul 27, 2016 | Functional Medicine, General Health & Wellness, Thoughts & Ideas

Facebook comment: There is no such thing as commercially available genetically modified wheat.  This is just “fear-mongering.” Dr. Sharlin responds: To suggest, by extension, that we are being fear mongered by an agenda-driven cohort to be concerned about the food we...

How to Talk to Your Doctor About The Wahls Protocol Part 1.

by functional | Jul 20, 2016 | Functional Medicine, General Health & Wellness

Next month I will be speaking at the annual Wahls Seminar about how to talk with your doctor.  If you have multiple sclerosis or other autoimmune diseases you may, and, frankly, you SHOULD, be interested in how personalized lifestyle medicine can affect the course of...

The Biology of Darkness

by functional | Jul 1, 2016 | Functional Medicine

This essay will appear in the August/September issue of Ozarks Living Magazine, under my column Grow Your Health Summer Solstice, the beginning of summer and longest day of the year, brings me to a discussion of sleep.  I am reminded of the character Will Dormer...

Dr. Sharlin Responds: CADASIL

by functional | May 11, 2016 | Functional Medicine, General Health & Wellness, Thoughts & Ideas

CADASIL (“Cerebral Autosomal-Dominant Arteriopathy with Subcortical Infarcts and Leukoencephalopathy”) is the most common form of hereditary stroke disorder, and is thought to be caused by mutations of the Notch 3 gene on chromosome 19. The disease belongs...

From the very soil in your garden comes the seeds for better health

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...

When It Comes To Health, There Is No Place Like Home

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...