New Year’s Challenge: Lose Weight By Getting Rid Of Chronic Inflammation

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Remove common inflammatory foods from your diet for at least 2-6 weeks so you’ll know how they are affecting you. These foods are: gluten, dairy, eggs, soy, corn, added sugar, artificial colors/sweeteners, all grains, caffeine, and alcohol. These foods can compromise your immune system and create hidden inflammation.

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Functional Medicine: Find the CAUSE of Your Symptoms

Functional medicine is a holistic approach to patient care. While traditional medicine has a focus on a specific disease diagnosis as the end state, functional medicine looks to find the underlying causes for those disease symptoms. For example, a conventional doctor may stop after writing a prescription of an anti-depressant after diagnosing depression, their job is done. The functional medicine doctor will look for the underlying causes of the depression by taking extra time listening to patient histories, ordering specialty metabolic and nutritional lab work, and looking at the complex interactions among genetic, environmental, nutritional, metabolic, diets and lifestyle factors that influence long term health and chronic diseases. – See more at: http://www.drhirani.com/about/functional-medicine/#sthash.4i1d1a3X.dpuf

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Do you have chronic fatigue, joint aches, headaches, digestive issues, and/or weight gain? Do all your blood tests come back “normal” but you are still suffering. There is an answer. Functional medicine.

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Is Toxic Body Overload Keeping You From Your Weight Loss Goals?

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We are all in toxic over load. Toxins are in the food, you eat, the water you drink, and the air you breathe. You are probably aware of most environmental toxins: pesticides, heavy metals, chemicals, pollution, caffeine, and preservatives. But what you may not realize is how our bodies produce natural toxins, such as ammonia and carbon dioxide, which linger in the body if they can not be broken down. The liver, lymphatic system, kidneys, lungs, intestines, blood and skin filter these toxins. When over loaded your body becomes inefficient and toxins can build up leading to decreased fat burning and weight gain.

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One in Six Patients Believe Their Doctor Made a Mistake in Their Treatment

ImageThis headline was featured on Mercola.com. He cited a study that found that 13% of the people polled received the wrong diagnosis and 12.5 % received the wrong treatment so as a result, one in seven patients had opted to change physicians. There have been many studies showing that more people die from receiving the wrong prescription drug than from one of the leading causes of death-heart attacks.  Johns Hopkins Medical School refined this research and discovered that medical errors and prescription drugs together may actually be the Leading cause of death.

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