Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies – Page 2 – WholeHealth Chicago

Functional Telemedicine, Wherever You Are

All things considered, we’ve rather enjoyed our telemedicine interactions with patients. Doctoring this way also recently provided me with an Aha! moment. What I realized was that much of what we do as Functional Medicine specialists, both diagnosis and treatment, can be done online with you never leaving your home. Such a consultation would include […]

11 CommentsMay 11, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Allergies & Food Sensitivities, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Bone Health, Candida (yeast) and Parasites, Cardiovascular Health, Chiropractic & Physical Medicine, Diseases, Environmental Sensitivities, F, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Health Insurance Issues, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Men's Health, Mental Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Pain Management, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues, Weight Issues, Women's HealthTagged adrenal fatigue, amino acids, B12 deficienct, biotoxin, Candida, chemical sensitivities, chronic fatigue, chronic symptoms, digestion, distance medicine, fatigue, fibromyalgia, food sensitivities, heavy metal, hormone imbalance, hormones, hypothyroid, hypothyroidism, leaky gut, lyme, mold, mold biotoxin, organic acids, parasites, SIBO, small intestine bacterial overgrowth, Telehealth, telehealthcare, telemedicine, vitamin D

Should You Get The New Antibody Test for Covid-19?

Before I answer that, let me give you a quick tutorial about your immune system and how it deals with any virus–Covid-19, measles, hepatitis, seasonal flu, even the common cold. The mechanics of your immunity, which has kept you alive all these years, is pretty much the same from virus to virus. If you read […]

15 CommentsApril 27, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Ear, Nose, & Throat, Immune System, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Respiratory Health, STagged antibodies, antibody, immune, immune support, immunity, vaccine, vaccines

Surviving Covid-19…and Beyond

You were coughing, exhausted, achy, and you had a headache. If you breathed in quickly, you coughed a lot. You thought you might be a little short of breath, but wondered if you were just anxious. You actually managed to find a place to get tested. Someone inserted a cotton swab so deeply up your […]

10 CommentsApril 22, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Immune Superstar: Mushroom Blends

To support your immune system, it may be helpful to take one capsule of a good mushroom blend twice daily and eat actual mushrooms frequently, incorporating them into the many meals you’re now cooking at home. According to Paul Stamets, who knows more about fungi than anyone, there are an estimated one to two million […]

April 9, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Diseases, I, Immune System, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Respiratory HealthTagged fungi, herbs, mushroom, mushrooms

We Are Fighting For Our Lives: Covid-19 Update

This Health Tip might contain more about Covid-19 than you’ve read online or heard on a news program. It might even be more than you really care to know. Obviously we Americans we have some real challenges, far greater than many countries smaller and less “powerful” than the US. We’re running out of personal protective […]

13 CommentsApril 4, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Immune Superstar: Vitamin C

Exactly 50 years ago, in 1970, Linus Pauling, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry, published Vitamin C and the Common Cold. His research concluded that by taking large amounts of vitamin C (10 to 20 times the Recommended Daily Allowance/RDA) you would not only overcome any deficiencies but could boost your immune system enough to ward off […]

April 2, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Immune Superstar: Zinc

Zinc picolinate, 50 mg daily. We’ve known for decades that the element zinc plays many significant roles in physiology, especially when it comes to the immune system. It’s also true that zinc-deficient individuals are more susceptible to a variety of diseases caused by bacteria and viruses. Zinc is a powerful playerIt’s involved in maintaining the […]

March 31, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Diseases, I, Immune System, Knowledge Base, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal RemediesTagged immune, immune support, immune system, supplements, zinc

Taking Care of Yourself while Staying Home

Seeing Your Chiropractic Physician via Telemedicine? Absolutely! I know what you’re thinking. ‘How can you possibly give me an adjustment during a video conference?’ The short answer is I can’t, but when coming to our office for an in-person appointment is difficult or impossible, I can continue to help. As a chiropractic physician, I’ve been […]

23 CommentsMarch 25, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Case Studies, Chiropractic & Physical Medicine, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, TTagged back pain, cholecystitis, gallbladder, musculoskeletal pain, pain, shoulder blade pain, shoulder pain, telehealthcare, telemedicine

“My Breath Smells Like Poop!”

Usually by the time someone comes to us at WholeHealth Chicago with this complaint, they’ve already taken the obvious route. Ralph, a healthy looking guy in his 30s and recently married despite his halitosis, had already seen: –His primary care physician, who wasn’t sure he noticed anything odd about Ralph’s breath at all, but suggested […]

50 CommentsFebruary 23, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Digestion, Ear, Nose, & Throat, Inflammation, Knowledge Base, M, Most comments, Most Viewed, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal RemediesTagged bad breath, breath, dental health, SIBO

It’s The Carbs. It’s Always Been The Carbs.

Somewhere in my library is a copy of Gary Taubes’ 2008 Good Calories, Bad Calories, one of several books that appeared in the wake of the really vicious controversy that surrounded Robert C. Atkins, MD’s Dr Atkins’ Diet Revolution, which first appeared in 1972, has been published in 13 revisions and editions, and continues to […]

16 CommentsFebruary 3, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, I, Knowledge Base, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal RemediesTagged carbohydrates, carbs, nutrition

Infertility Issues? Start With The Guy

I’ve lost track of the number of couples we treat at WholeHealth Chicago who are involved in one of the hormone injection/surgical procedure stops on the conveyor belt of infertility centers. Currently, it’s estimated that 15 to 20 percent of couples are struggling with infertility, half of them due to male factors. The infertility docs […]

2 CommentsJanuary 19, 2020 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Alternative Therapies, Blog, Healthy Lifestyle, I, Knowledge Base, Men's Health, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Sexual Health, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone IssuesTagged essential fatty acids, fatty acids, fish oil, infertility, male infertility, omega

The Flu: How To Recognize It and What to Do

It’s here, folks, and this year could be a doozy. How do we know? We keep a watchful eye on Australia, whose winter and flu season occur six months before our own. The New York Times reported that “In 2017, a terrible flu season in Australia presaged an American outbreak in which 79,000 died. Experts […]

1 CommentDecember 30, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Diseases, Immune System, Knowledge Base, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Respiratory Health, TTagged anti-viral, antiviral, cold, cold and flu, flu, immune, immune system, Tamiflu, virals, virus

Enzymes for Health and Longevity

Until we got our plumbing overhauled, we’d been experiencing some real problems at WholeHealth Chicago, including clogged toilet drains that had bested some of Chicago’s top plumbers. After power rodding and chemicals, followed by actual pipe replacement, in the end we got everything working and didn’t have to send patients to the carwash next door […]

14 CommentsDecember 16, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, E, Knowledge Base, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal RemediesTagged cancer, cardiovascular disease, enzymes, heart disease, inflammation

Heavy Metal Toxicity and Your Health

For those who were otherwise preoccupied that day long ago in high school chemistry, the heavy metals refer to a group of especially dense metals or metal-like substances (called metalloids) found in the environment. These metals–specifically lead, mercury, arsenic, cadmium, and aluminum–can all be absorbed by your body and stored there. Our environment is already […]

3 CommentsNovember 25, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, H, Healthy Lifestyle, Inflammation, Knowledge Base, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal RemediesTagged detox, heavy metal, heavy metal detox, lead, murcury

NAD+: Finally Getting Serious About Anti-Aging Therapy

We’re living in a time of major, worldwide breakthroughs when it comes to understanding how we age and also the steps we can take to not only slow down aging, but to all appearances reverse the process. Over history, the fountain of youth seekers came, literally and figuratively, to dead ends, but back then Ponce […]

12 CommentsNovember 11, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, N, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal RemediesTagged aging, anti-aging, healthy aging

The Cleveland Clinic and WholeHealth Chicago

I know, I know. It’s presumptuous of me to mention Cleveland Clinic in the same line, much less on the same page, as WholeHealth Chicago, though we do have significant attributes in common, as you’ll see today. This research article, which appeared last week on the JAMA website, links the two of us in ways […]

5 CommentsNovember 4, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Big Pharma Evils, Blog, Digestion, Environmental Sensitivities, Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue, Fitness & Exercise, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, T, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone IssuesTagged functional medicine

Diagnostic Tests Chart Path To A Healthful Longevity

Let me start with a piece of disappointing news. You know that battery of blood tests ordered by your family doctor or internist during your dutiful check-up? That complete blood count (CBC), comprehensive metabolic profile (CMP), and so forth? All of them are pretty useless. Yes, they’re almost always covered by insurance, so they’re free, […]

8 CommentsOctober 28, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Aging, Alternative Therapies, Blog, Cardiovascular Health, D, Health Insurance Issues, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Inflammation, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal RemediesTagged anti-aging, genetics, lab testing, long life, longevity, quality of life

Dandruff, Fungi, and Cancer of the Pancreas

It’s an eye-catching title, I’ll admit. But the links are quite real and further research may guide medicine in new directions of cancer prevention and treatment. It all starts in your gut microbiome, the totality of microorganisms–bacteria, viruses, protozoa, and fungi–present in your gastrointestinal (GI) tract, mouth to anus. Until recently, researchers and clinical physicians […]

4 CommentsOctober 14, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, D, Dermatology, Diseases, Healthy Lifestyle, Immune System, Inflammation, Knowledge Base, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal RemediesTagged cancer, Candida, candida overgrowth, candida overgrowth syndrome, dandruff, gut microbiome, microbiome, pancreatic cancer, yeast

Director of IV Therapies Katie McManigal, BSN, ANP

Most people at some point in their lives have had an intravenous (IV) line. An adept nurse warned you about the tiny pinch of the needle as it was smoothly inserted and taped in place. Then the fluid dangling above your head slowly started making its way through a tube and into your body. IVs […]

3 CommentsSeptember 30, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Blog, D, Health Insurance Issues, Immune System, Knowledge Base, Lyme Disease & Morgellons, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal RemediesTagged IV ozone, IV therapies, IV therapy, MAH, ozone, Ozone therapry, UVB

Hey Doc, When Are You Going to Write Up My Case?

I hear this question virtually every time I see Alan, an extremely healthy, energetic man in his forties who could easily pass for someone in his twenties. He comes to the office once a year for a check-up (he’s always just fine), but since we cross paths at our health club I’m reminded about his […]

4 CommentsSeptember 16, 2019 by WholeHealth Chicago

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Posted in Acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine, Alternative Therapies, Blog, H, Integrative Medicine, Knowledge Base, Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies, Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues