One of the many unsettling truths about Lyme disease is that it frequently makes its victim susceptible to other debilitating conditions including diabetes, cancer, and yes, even Alzheimer’s disease. Restoration Healthcare joins other functional medicine professionals in its concerns about the connection between Lyme disease and Alzheimer’s, and we’re certain the science goes a long…
If you’re ready to eat healthy, feel awesome and lose weight, have we’ve got some good news for you! It’s not too late to start the New Year off on a healthy note. That’s because starting the day after Super Bowl® 50 (Monday, Feb. 8), we’re offering everyone the opportunity to participate in our next…
One of the drawbacks of starting out fresh with a new doctor or health practitioner is the task of filling out reams of medical history paperwork that is always required prior to the initial visit. Many of you can easily recall sitting in a crowded office lobby, attempting to balance a clipboard on our lap…
Like most people we know here in Southern California, our team at Restoration Healthcare will enjoy a well-deserved break from the office on both Christmas and New Year’s Day. We will however be in the office in between, with our hours as follows: Today (Thursday, Dec. 24): Open from 8:30 a.m. to Noon. Friday, December 25:…
Critics are brutal in their disavowal of Dr. Linus Pauling’s lifelong contention that high doses of Vitamin C are effective against colds and other illnesses. Pauling wrote in 1970 that 1,000 mg of Vitamin C — ingested daily and for life — could curtail the common cold by 45 percent. He later updated that announcement…
A lot of you are under the mistaken impression that a gluten-free diet is just another food fad, something akin to John Harvey Kellogg’s assertion in the mid-1870s that a two-gallon water enema — followed up by a serving of yogurt ingested orally and elsewhere — could prevent disease. Well, thanks to a team of…
We just wrapped up our Fall 2015 14-Day Detox Challenge, and the hands-down winner is Joe Garza, a 44-year-old mortgage underwriter for Rushmore Home Loans in Irvine. Joe and his wife, Jennifer, have four young sons, and what Joe accomplished in just two weeks has everyone in his family very proud of him. We sat…
If you enjoyed Part One in our series about the differences between traditional doctoring and Functional Medicine, you’re going to love today’s post. We here at Restoration Healthcare enjoy a well-reasoned analogy. Take this one for example: A doctor diagnoses disease like a detective investigates crime. An analogy lets us present a new concept by…
You can’t really begin to understand the differences between functional medicine and mainstream doctoring without briefly delving into the history of Western medicine. And key to that short history lesson is an American oil magnate who was hell-bent on furthering the expansion of the family fortune. But before we get into all that, ask yourself…
When it comes to IV nutrient infusion therapy, we here at Restoration Healthcare are of the opinion that all providers are not created equal. If you look around, you’ll see nutrition centers popping up like T-shirt shops and Starbucks, each offering a quick Vitamin C fix or a fistful of pills. These centers treat health optimization…