Dr. Tom Bakman, the founder and president here at Restoration Healthcare, began his career in medicine after transferring at the end of his junior from the University of California — Irvine and receiving a bachelor’s degree in human anatomy and a Doctor of Chiropractic from Southern California University of Health Science, which was then called…
If you’re a patient of ours, you already know that we specialize in function medicine — that is to say that here at Restoration Healthcare, we seek and then treat the underlying causes of chronic disease by using a systems-oriented approach to treatment. And while many of our patients enjoy the convenience of seeing one…
First off, we want to wish you and your loved ones a Happy Labor Day weekend, and share our office hours for the next few days: Friday, September 4: 8:30am-1pm & 3pm-6pm Saturday, September 5: 8:30am-11am Sunday, September 6: Closed Monday, September 7: Closed Tuesday, September 8: 8:30am-1pm & 3pm-6pm If you need to reach…
Chronic heavy metal toxicity is not something your internist or family doctor is in the habit of diagnosing. These general practitioners will usually diagnose the disease and then — if heavy metal toxins are discovered in the process — begin a regimen to remove those toxins. But here at Restoration Healthcare, we’re of the opinion…
If you stop to think about it, inflammation is intended to heal the body, not destroy it. Say, for instance, you slice your finger with a knife. Your body organizes and dispatches a boatload of white cells to begin battling bacteria before you’ve even finished putting a Band-Aid on the wound. That works out just…
Here at Restoration Healthcare, everything starts with the blood work. If you think about it like a home remodeling project — with your body representing the residence requiring some improvement — you know the first thing we’re going to need is a set of blueprints. And a blood test provides us with those blueprints —…
We recently hosted our first 14-Day Detox Challenge, during which client contestants raced against a two-week clock to cleanse their bodies of impurities and show the most improved body composition at the end of the competition. Contestants participated in a two-phase detox process between May 7-20, 2015, that included the use of a comprehensive, doctor-supervised…
Dr. Sunny Raleigh brings all her osteopathic medical skills to Restoration Healthcare where, as our medical director, she is tasked with finding, treating and reversing the root cause of our patient’s symptoms. To that end, each morning as she leaves for work, she also packs up a lifetime of experience as a mother, wife and…
Let’s say you’ve completed a physical therapy program prescribed by your doctor after an injury to your back and it just didn’t seem to give you complete resolution. A well-intended therapist ran you through some exercises, couldn’t always be there to make sure you were doing them correctly and there was no clear goal or…
When it comes to promoting a healthy lifestyle, the doctors and staff here at Restoration Healthcare will always be the first to advocate for proper exercise, a healthy diet, and supplements and meditation over drugs, surgery or medical implants. That being said, we’d like to briefly introduce you to the vagus nerve. You’ve got one…