Functional Medicine
My wife Valerie walks our dog Rudy on Sequiota Park trail just down the road from our home in Springfield, Missouri. One day when fall was in in full force here in the southern Midwest, and the leaves in the park at their peak of color, she encountered Beatrice, a...
Functional Medicine
Abscission, according to Wikipedia, comes from the Latin ab, meaning away, and scindere, meaning to cut. This time of year abscission is all around us. But our word for abscission is Fall, the beautiful season in the Ozarks and much of this country when temperatures...
Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease Explained by Dr. Ken Sharlin Alzheimer’s disease, of course, is a very tragic condition affecting now something along the lines of 5.4 million Americans. It’s a condition of gradual and progressive memory loss that ends in early death for...
Alzheimer's Disease
Alzheimer’s Disease Diagnosis: Correct or Incorrect? We see a lot of people in our practice who have been told they may have Alzheimer’s disease. or they do have Alzheimer’s disease. You have to step back and see how that diagnosis was made. Sometimes they go to...
Functional Medicine
Fans of James Maskell and Gabe Hoffman’s Functional Forum know of its partnership with The Institute for Functional Medicine. The July Functional Forum scheduled for 5 pm PDT and 8 pm EDT on July 11, 2016, is going to “dive deep into the central core of the...