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
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
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.
You may have noticed this past week your skin is feeling a little “rougher around the edges.” Not surprising with temperatures taking a rapid nose drive. There are steps you can take for protecting your skin in the winter months. Eczema flare-ups can worsen in the winter. Eczema is a condition where the skin becomes red,
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
It has been some time since I have talked about Adrenal Fatigue. As with anything in medicine, there is debate as to whether this is a real condition or a made up label for where there is no answer. Before we can answer that question, it is important to understand the purpose of the adrenal
Merriam-Webster’s dictionary defines cravings as, “an intense, urgent, or abnormal desire or longing." We know that feeling all too well. Salivating at the commercials that lure us inside those restaurant doors, whiffs of free samples handed by sweet little ladies in the grocery aisle, or my personal favorite - the buy one get one free trick.
There comes a point in our lifespan where the hormones biologically begin to slow down production and we begin to consider hormone therapy. When our body senses the slowing of stressors in our crazy lives, it has no need to keep up with the high demands of life. While this is a good thing, the
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16216 Baxter Road • Suite 325 • Chesterfield, MO 63017
Phone: (636) 777-8058 Fax: (636) 777-8059
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Chesterfield, MO 63017
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