by functional | Nov 11, 2019 | Alzheimer's Disease, Brain Tune Up!, Functional Medicine, Memory Loss, Neurology
When I decided to write The Healthy Brain Toolbox: Neurologist-Proven Strategies to Prevent Memory Loss and Protect Your Aging Brain, it was because I thought it was high time to set the record straight. It remains a common notion that genes determine a person’s...
by functional | Oct 1, 2019 | Functional Medicine, Neurology
I’m Dr. Ken Sharlin, a practicing functional medicine board-certified neurologist. When my nurse says the next patient waiting to see me is a 34-year-old woman with numbness and tingling whose doctor referred her because he cannot explain her symptoms and she has a...
by functional | Aug 5, 2019 | Chronic Migraine, Functional Medicine, Neurology
If you are bothered by headaches it may be helpful to know that all headaches are not the same. A narrow definition of headache would include pain in any part of the head, often parts of the face, especially around or behind the eyes, and frequently the upper part of...
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...