If you live with more than one chronic condition, your calendar may already feel like a series of separate appointments, each focused on a single organ system or label. One visit covers blood pressure. Another covers joints. Another covers blood sugar, digestion, hormones, or mood. Somewhere in the ...
When someone receives a cancer diagnosis, understandably, the tumor becomes the center of attention.
What type is it?
What stage?
What treatment is needed?
Those questions are essential.
But a large new study raises another important question:
What is happening in the rest of the person’s heal...
A diagnosis matters. It gives a name to what has been identified and can guide important treatment decisions.
But a diagnosis is data, not the full story.
It may not explain why some days feel harder than others. Why symptoms seem to fluctuate. Why your energy changes. Why sleep suddenly falls apa...
A diagnosis can bring relief because something finally has a name.
It can also bring fear, confusion and a flood of instructions: medications, appointments, procedures, dietary advice, things to avoid and things to monitor.
And somewhere in all of that, an important question can get lost:
What el...
This Labor Day, while we celebrate the work people do, take a moment to recognize something else that rarely gets our attention: the extraordinary amount of work your body is doing for you every day.
Your heart keeps beating.
Your lungs keep exchanging oxygen.
Your brain continues processing info...
For years, I ran clinical trials and saw a pattern that was hard to ignore.
Many medications were helping manage symptoms, but they were not always addressing the deeper biological patterns driving chronic illness. In some cases, they were also creating additional stress on the very people they wer...
