Dr. Sharlin Responds: Alzheimer’s, Are we really on the verge of a cure?

Alzheimer's Disease

I read an article recently reporting on results of a drug trial hailed as the best news for Alzheimer’s disease research in 25 years.  Are we really on the verge of a cure? Dr. Sharlin Responds: Lately the press is reporting on an article published in the September...

How to Talk to Your Doctor About The Wahls Protocol, Part 2.

Functional Medicine

Taking it to the next level. The Wahls Protocol uses functional medicine principles and a specific Paleo diet (The Wahls diet) to address autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis.  But in reality anyone can use the principles of the Wahls Protocol to address...

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

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

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...

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

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...