October has become synonymous with breast cancer awareness. Everywhere you look, pink is the color you will be sure to find. This months’ blog is dedicated to anyone who has personally been affected or knows someone with breast cancer. It seems every day we hear about someone else that was diagnosed. Has breast cancer really
The idea of needles inserted throughout your body for pain relief may make the hair on the back of your neck run for cover. What if these needles inserted in very strategic locations could actually help cure symptoms that modern medicine couldn’t? I am talking about the science of acupuncture. The International Academy of Medical Acupuncture
Have you ever walked into a gym, took one look at the equipment, and turned right around and walked out? All the latest and greatest gadgets can not only be daunting, but they can also leave one to ponder who comes up with this crazy stuff. Well, let me tell you, this is my absolute
What are fermented foods and how can they help promote a healthy gut? Fermentation is an anaerobic process where bacteria or yeast convert sugars in food to organic acids or alcohol. This helps preserve the food while adding a little zing to the palate. In recent years, fermented foods are finding their way to grocery
Fatigue. It is something that plagues us more often than it should, and stands before us in ways and reasons we least expect. Tiredness is an all-encompassing umbrella of symptoms we use when we don’t know what is wrong with us. Some common things we tell ourselves typically are: * I’m getting older. *Work is getting
When you graduate medical school and residency, no one tells you that the ten years spent in academics is not at all what real life would look like. Let me clarify. I am a total geeked out nerd. I love reading. I love spending Saturday nights deep in rumination about things I think I know that
Is it winter? Is it spring? Well, yes it is! If you are a St. Louisian, you know it is only a matter of hours before we go from freezing temperatures and a wind gust stronger than the Arctic to walking around in shorts and flip-flops! What you may not know is the effects of
It seems like just when I have the hormonal pathways figured out I am gently reminded of how much I don’t know. To me, that is the beauty of trying to understand a system that continues to elude us. The learning is endless. In my previous blogs, I have discussed the varying components to hormones.
I remember a time when the only place you could find me was in the kitchen. No silly…..it wasn’t because I was eating all the time, it was because I loved feeding others. I still do. In 2014 in a matter of months, I developed sudden food allergies to delicacies I used to love to
There is no way around it. We love our sugar fix. Americans on average consume 20 tsp of sugar a day. A 12 ounce can of regular soda holds 39 gm of sugar, that’s 10-12 tsp of pure toxins. So do artificial sweeteners offer another healthier option? Artificial sweeteners are often times called “intense sweeteners” because
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16216 Baxter Road • Suite 325 • Chesterfield, MO 63017
Phone: (636) 777-8058 Fax: (636) 777-8059
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