This is an interesting one for me because it really seems a super straightforward, well-known condition that is often misdiagnosed,...

Super exciting news: Jeremy and I are getting married... in less than two weeks. He proposed back in November, on the second anniversary...

This isn't the first time I've written about diabetes, nor I am sure, will it be my last. Diabetes has become a true epidemic, alongside...

Lyme disease is difficult to diagnose. Testing to identify its presence is often negative, for a variety of reasons, and when exposed to...

This is one of the more commonly missed chronic diseases in conventional medicine. Hepatitis C is an infection of the liver and it can...

High blood pressure (hypertension) affects almost a third of our population, with 75 percent of those individuals prescribed medications...

This disease is genetic, although often goes undiagnosed. It affects the nerves that transmit information and signals, from the brain and...

High blood calcium is a condition of too much calcium in the blood. We catch these on routine blood draws, or rarely individuals have...

Zinc and copper levels are a common evaluations in our practice, as when out of balance, these two minerals can have quite the impact on...

Interestingly, this really isn't a specific disease. Juvenile Arthritis is an umbrella term to describe the inflammatory and rheumatic...

There are a number of ways, endless ways, that we differ. We are more different than we are the same to be honest, but today when I was...

Not having a huge pediatric practice, I must admit how surprised I am by the number of pediatric clients I care for who suffer with stool...

Many years ago, while watching the sitcom Parenthood with Ray Romano and the hunky, Dax Shepard, it occurred to my former husband that he...

Not a super common scenario, but if for whatever reason an individual's immune system is working especially hard, such as fighting an...

Not a pathology we typically learn in school. I don't remember it in any of the textbooks I read, and I am a self-proclaimed nerd; I do...

This one is a fun one in that there are a plethora of underlying causes for #tinnitus, and sadly, most of what I hear from clients is...

A rare blood cell cancer, Waldenstrom Macroglobulinemia is characterized by an excess of abnormal white blood cells in the bone marrow....

Assessing children and adolescents really is an art, maybe more so than it is even a highly sophisticated science. Children themselves...

As a sufferer of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, I have long been a fan of Xanax. Yep, those words will get twisted and used against me...

Inflammation can occur at any point anywhere from your mouth to your bum. This may relate to a genetic susceptibility or result from...