If one can indeed find comfort in numbers, know that more than half of all women will experience fibrocystic breast changes at one point or another during their lifetimes. Once called fibrocystic breast disease, the condition was later found to not be a disease at all. In addition — and this is more good news…
Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis, a disorder that more formally is known as chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis or autoimmune thyroiditis, is another one of those ailments with a nebulous history and an unknown cause. Medical researchers believe genetics, hormones, radiation exposure or an excess of iodine might — singly or in concert — be the responsible culprit. So what…
You’d figure that in this day and age, some marketing firm would have come up with a better name for a digestive condition than “leaky gut syndrome.” The fact that the ailment is also known as “increased intestinal permeability,” doesn’t make it any more palatable. Neither term is attractive, but neither is the condition, which…
As we get older, our body’s naturally produced hormones — which are essential for a healthy lifestyle and for preventing disease — begin to diminish. In fact, by middle age, most of us (women and men alike) find ourselves with up to 10 percent fewer hormones than when we were younger. And that’s up to…
The doctors and staff here at Restoration Healthcare will be taking time off this long weekend in honor of those in uniform who died while defending the United States. For certain, there will be picnics, backyard barbecues with the family and some visits to the beach, but our staff is also mindful of this patriotic…
More than 2 million people in this country suffer from substance use disorders related to opioid pain relievers, according to research published by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). And in most of these cases, medical doctors legitimately prescribed these opiates to their patients, ranging from triathletes with torn ligaments to backyard gardeners with…
Intermittent fasting is pretty much just like it sounds — fasting at irregular intervals instead of consuming meals on a regular schedule that has only one thing going for it: outmoded tradition. Most of us were raised to believe that three squares a day — each consumed at fairly consistent times of the day —…
Originally intended for children with epilepsy, ketogenic diets are high in fats, low in carbohydrates and they feature a respectable amount of protein. Put simply, a typical meal would include copious amounts of fat (70 percent); protein with veggies (25 percent) and a smidgeon of carbs (5 percent.) The purpose of a ketogenic diet program…
The doctors and staff here at Restoration Healthcare are pretty excited about MethylGenetic Nutrition Analysis (also known as genetic nutrition) — a new modality in medicine that allows us to directly combat chronic disease by understanding and addressing a patient’s highly specific DNA with targeted nutrition. It all starts with a saliva test that’s processed…
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…