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When it comes to modern-day health hazards, I don’t think there’s one quite as common or far-reaching as EMFs.EMF stands for electromagnetic field.EMFs come from any number of electronic sources and are generated by the electric and magnetic forces created...

Heartburn, it's something that millions upon millions of Americans deal with.For almost all of them, their discomfort has everything to do with what they eat.So, if I were to give you some blanket advice on heartburn, I’d start with an...

I love testosterone. I should, as I’m a doctor who specializes in integrative medicines, which often entails looking at people’s hormone levels and then offering solutions they can use to improve hormone levels naturally. I’ve been doing this for more...

Exercise is vital for our health, and I’m a huge proponent of my patients and the general population working out frequently.I don’t think you can make an argument for the futility of exercise in helping to modulate health.But, as great...

One of the things that I love about functional medicine or integrative health, is that we focus on fixing the base-level problems that contribute to illness.The reason I love this approach is because, for many people, they’re never given answers...

I’m going to start winding down this sleep series by talking about something that I never once considered affecting sleep (until recently).And that is how histamine release can cause you to wake far earlier than you normally would and disrupt...

Heart rate variability (HRV) has become a hot topic for those interested in monitoring their own or their clients' sleep, recovery, performance, or overall health.It’s not a metric that we focused on in medical school, and it’s not one that...

Part of the sleep series is going to be devoted to 2 drugs that have some fairly consequential effects on our bodies and how we sleep.I’ve written about both of these drugs multiple times, but the facts are so many...