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...
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...
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...
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...