Acupuncture/Traditional Chinese Medicine
- WELCOME TO WHOLEHEALTH CHICAGO! ANNGELA LEONE, LAc.Anngela Leone, LAc. Is a licensed and board certified acupuncturist and herbalist in the state of Illinois. Anngela offers minimally invasive healing modalities that allow your body to heal itself.… Read more: WELCOME TO WHOLEHEALTH CHICAGO! ANNGELA LEONE, LAc.
- Welcoming Sandra Subotich to WholeHealth ChicagoNormally, when I write a welcome Health Tip announcing a new WholeHealth Chicago practitioner, I go right to the person’s biography to illuminate why you might consider making an appointment.… Read more: Welcoming Sandra Subotich to WholeHealth Chicago
- 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… Read more: Hey Doc, When Are You Going to Write Up My Case?
Aging
- You’re Only As Old As Your ArteriesI first heard this phrase in medical school, but physicians have been using the phrase “hardening of the arteries” to describe the slow decline and death of old people probably… Read more: You’re Only As Old As Your Arteries
- Anti-Aging Therapies: Carl Bogaard, Hormones, and PeptidesBefore I get into today’s details about longevity medicine–lab tests, hormones, peptides, and the like—let’s pause and reflect on Carl Bogaard, who died August 7 at age 103. Mr. Bogaard… Read more: Anti-Aging Therapies: Carl Bogaard, Hormones, and Peptides
- Phosphatidyl Choline for Anti-Aging and Chronic IllnessYou’ve likely read or heard about phosphatidyl choline somewhere, maybe online or on a bottle in a supplement aisle. Maybe, like many of us, you could barely pronounce it, and… Read more: Phosphatidyl Choline for Anti-Aging and Chronic Illness
Allergies & Food Sensitivities
- Your Blue Poop: An Easy At-Home Test of Gut HealthAnyone who has ever visited a WholeHealth Chicago Functional Medicine practitioner knows that lots of questions focus on digestion. The reason for this goes all the way back to the… Read more: Your Blue Poop: An Easy At-Home Test of Gut Health
- Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement PlansIf you’re a WholeHealth Chicago patient, you’ve likely noticed that we review your list of nutritional supplements during each appointment. Conventional doctors ask what prescription meds you’re taking (and of… Read more: Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement Plans
- Gut Restoration: Repairing Your MicrobiomeAt one time, conventional physicians simply did not believe in the concept of intestinal dysbiosis, in which the intestinal tract has an unhealthful mix of the 100 trillion bacteria thriving… Read more: Gut Restoration: Repairing Your Microbiome
Alternative Therapies
- Finally! Whole Health Chicago To Open A South Side OfficeOK, OK, so it took 20 years, but it will be worth the wait. WholeHealth Chicago’s new location is in the Beverly neighborhood, at 3237 W, 111th Street. The location… Read more: Finally! Whole Health Chicago To Open A South Side Office
- Wikipedia’s Disservice to Alternative MedicineWe’ll return to the Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue series next week, but today a change of pace. I feel I must write about this Wiki business because yet again… Read more: Wikipedia’s Disservice to Alternative Medicine
- Anti-Aging Therapies: Carl Bogaard, Hormones, and PeptidesBefore I get into today’s details about longevity medicine–lab tests, hormones, peptides, and the like—let’s pause and reflect on Carl Bogaard, who died August 7 at age 103. Mr. Bogaard… Read more: Anti-Aging Therapies: Carl Bogaard, Hormones, and Peptides
Big Pharma Evils
- Issues with Endocrinologists: Thyroid Approaches and Big PharmaMy beefs with endocrinologists pretty much center on how they manage thyroid gland concerns, though they rarely win prizes for managing adrenal issues either. I don’t know any endocrinologists personally… Read more: Issues with Endocrinologists: Thyroid Approaches and Big Pharma
- Paying A Lot More At Walgreens (and Sometimes CVS Too)At WholeHealth Chicago, we really do try to avoid prescribing prescription drugs whenever we can, opting instead for lifestyle changes that can keep you away from a chemical pill you… Read more: Paying A Lot More At Walgreens (and Sometimes CVS Too)
- Ten Drugs Doctors Should Consider De-PrescribingPhysicians use the word polypharmacy when a patient is taking five or more prescription drugs daily. A recent survey showed that half of women Medicare recipients were taking five or… Read more: Ten Drugs Doctors Should Consider De-Prescribing
Bone Health
- Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement PlansIf you’re a WholeHealth Chicago patient, you’ve likely noticed that we review your list of nutritional supplements during each appointment. Conventional doctors ask what prescription meds you’re taking (and of… Read more: Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement Plans
- Menopause Hell? Quell The Fire With Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)When it’s time, you can expect to transition through menopause in one of three ways. If you’re unlucky enough to land in Menopause Hell, give some serious thought to bioidentical… Read more: Menopause Hell? Quell The Fire With Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)
- No Safe Level: Lead Poisoning and Your HealthI prefer the term “poisoning” over “toxicity” as there is no acceptably safe level of lead in the human body, just as there is no acceptable level of cyanide or… Read more: No Safe Level: Lead Poisoning and Your Health
Candida (yeast) & Parasites
- Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 12: Candida (Yeast) OvergrowthBack in 1993, several weeks before the opening of what would come to be called WholeHealth Chicago, I was summoned to the office of the chief of medicine at the… Read more: Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 12: Candida (Yeast) Overgrowth
- Jonathan Toews, Covid-19, and CIRSPerhaps you’ve heard about the Chicago Blackhawks captain, his long illness, and the good news that he’s back on the ice. After saying in December that feeling drained and lethargic… Read more: Jonathan Toews, Covid-19, and CIRS
- Conquering Candida: A Telemedicine ConsultationYou might be reading this Health Tip from a town 40 miles north of Mobile, Alabama, or somewhere west of Pecos, New Mexico, and you might be thinking, “Well, this… Read more: Conquering Candida: A Telemedicine Consultation
Cardiovascular Health
- Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 15: Long CovidDoctors who work with patients who have chronic fatigue, chronic Lyme, and fibromyalgia have remarked on the similarity between people with these conditions and those suffering the frequently disabling symptoms… Read more: Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 15: Long Covid
- Should You Try a Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting?Just about half the patients we see in our office classify themselves as overweight and wish they weren’t. Not many are in the obese range, likely because when you come… Read more: Should You Try a Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting?
- What Supplements Do You Take, Dr E?It’s a question I’m asked with some regularity. Last week, when I told you about our new WholeHealth Supplement Plans for personalized monthly supplement delivery (which we started offering yesterday),… Read more: What Supplements Do You Take, Dr E?
Case Studies
- “I Am So Bloated!”Susan wrote this on our WholeHealth Chicago form in the section marked “What’s the main problem?” She went on to tell me she’d been suffering for years, her stomach feeling… Read more: “I Am So Bloated!”
- Lyme Disease In Your Nervous System: Three Cases“Why am I limiting this to only three cases?” I wondered. Physicians who treat Lyme, like our group at WholeHealth Chicago where we see a lot of Lyme disease patients,… Read more: Lyme Disease In Your Nervous System: Three Cases
- The Heartburn That Wouldn’t QuitDierdre had written “I want to get off my heartburn medicine” on her WholeHealth Chicago intake form. This, by the way, was a tele-med appointment. I’ve actually never met her… Read more: The Heartburn That Wouldn’t Quit
Chiropractic & Physical Medicine
- Functional Telemedicine, Wherever You AreAll 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… Read more: Functional Telemedicine, Wherever You Are
- Taking Care of Yourself while Staying HomeSeeing 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,… Read more: Taking Care of Yourself while Staying Home
- My Integrative Medicine ComeuppanceAbout six weeks ago, I was in the Loop just leaving the international Lyme disease conference, briefcase in one hand, shopping bag filled with I-don’t-remember-what in the other, when my… Read more: My Integrative Medicine Comeuppance
Dermatology
- Dandruff, Fungi, and Cancer of the PancreasIt’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… Read more: Dandruff, Fungi, and Cancer of the Pancreas
- Case Study: Tracy’s Eczema From HellShe had wisely trimmed her fingernails to avoid injuring her own skin, but as she sat in my office she continuously rubbed one part of her body or another with… Read more: Case Study: Tracy’s Eczema From Hell
- Case Study: French Irritability ExplainedPatti came to our offices with her daughter and she’d written “Everything hurts” on our patient intake form. As she rose from the waiting room chair, her face grimaced in… Read more: Case Study: French Irritability Explained
Digestion
- Finally! Whole Health Chicago To Open A South Side OfficeOK, OK, so it took 20 years, but it will be worth the wait. WholeHealth Chicago’s new location is in the Beverly neighborhood, at 3237 W, 111th Street. The location… Read more: Finally! Whole Health Chicago To Open A South Side Office
- WELCOME TO WHOLEHEALTH CHICAGO! ANNGELA LEONE, LAc.Anngela Leone, LAc. Is a licensed and board certified acupuncturist and herbalist in the state of Illinois. Anngela offers minimally invasive healing modalities that allow your body to heal itself.… Read more: WELCOME TO WHOLEHEALTH CHICAGO! ANNGELA LEONE, LAc.
- Your Blue Poop: An Easy At-Home Test of Gut HealthAnyone who has ever visited a WholeHealth Chicago Functional Medicine practitioner knows that lots of questions focus on digestion. The reason for this goes all the way back to the… Read more: Your Blue Poop: An Easy At-Home Test of Gut Health
Diseases
- Finally! Whole Health Chicago To Open A South Side OfficeOK, OK, so it took 20 years, but it will be worth the wait. WholeHealth Chicago’s new location is in the Beverly neighborhood, at 3237 W, 111th Street. The location… Read more: Finally! Whole Health Chicago To Open A South Side Office
- Chronic Fatigue/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Fibro and Covid-19Regular readers of British mystery novels from the 1930s and 1940s are familiar with the old trick where the detective actually turns out to be the murderer. Or where Character… Read more: Chronic Fatigue/Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Fibro and Covid-19
- Covid Could VanishFirst, I was really pleased that the kerfluffle I expected in the wake of last week’s Health Tip asking (no, begging) Dr. Joseph Mercola to stifle his anti-vax stance never… Read more: Covid Could Vanish
Ear, Nose, & Throat
- The Ears Have ItI guess it’s because ears are basically such unattractive appendages, looking quite a lot like tree fungi attached to the sides of our heads, that we try not to think… Read more: The Ears Have It
- Covid Immunization: Facts, Not FictionIf you don’t feel like reading one more word about Covid-19, you’ve got my sympathy. However, if you’re inclined, scan this Health Tip and perhaps pick up a fact or… Read more: Covid Immunization: Facts, Not Fiction
- The Chemical Swill Accumulating In Your BodyI was pleased with the election of Joe Biden, not least because we might end (and start reversing) the more than 100 pollution rollbacks that the Trump administration has initiated… Read more: The Chemical Swill Accumulating In Your Body
Environmental Sensitivities
- Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 13: Multiple Chemical SensitivityMost often, even before patients realize they’ve developed multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), its very first manifestation is fatigue, the sense of feeling deeply tired all the time. MCS is yet… Read more: Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 13: Multiple Chemical Sensitivity
- Jonathan Toews, Covid-19, and CIRSPerhaps you’ve heard about the Chicago Blackhawks captain, his long illness, and the good news that he’s back on the ice. After saying in December that feeling drained and lethargic… Read more: Jonathan Toews, Covid-19, and CIRS
- Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement PlansIf you’re a WholeHealth Chicago patient, you’ve likely noticed that we review your list of nutritional supplements during each appointment. Conventional doctors ask what prescription meds you’re taking (and of… Read more: Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement Plans
Eye Care
- Macular DegenerationIt’s likely that many of the 6 million Americans with macular degeneration first hear about it during a visit to an eye doctor where they’ve come complaining about their declining vision. Most of them leave the office in a very discouraged state of mind, with the phrase “nothing can be done” ringing in their ears. The macula is a tiny spot in the center of the retina that enables you to distinguish the fine detail in the center of your visual field. In other words, all the truly important stuff of looking at things: reading, watching TV, threading a needle, driving a car.
- CataractsCataract surgery is truly a wonder of modern medicine. Today, ophthalmologists remove cataracts and insert lens implants as skillfully (and, it appears, as effortlessly) as you tie your shoes. As a bonus, Medicare picks up the tab because almost all surgery is performed on people over age 65. At WholeHealth Chicago, we believe you don’t necessarily have to develop cataracts. They may be a normal part of aging (rather than a disease), but they’re not inevitable. While no medicine is available to reverse cataracts, plenty of evidence exists on how lifestyle changes and nutritional supplements can significantly lessen your chances of developing them in the first place. Even if you’ve developed the start of a cataract, you can keep it from worsening.
- Nutritional Health for Your EyesI was considerably cheered recently when I visited my ophthalmologist for a check-up and saw a shelf of vitamins in his lobby. Since I feel warm and fuzzy when I see a conventional physician recommending nutritional supplements, I had to ask.
Fibromyalgia & Chronic Fatigue
- Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 8: Prescription DrugsWhen new or even long-established patients arrive at WholeHealth Chicago (in person or via telemedicine), our practitioners walk them through what we call the medication ritual. We ask, “What are… Read more: Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 8: Prescription Drugs
- Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 7: Sleep DisordersThe past few weeks we’ve been making our way through the overlooked causes of chronic fatigue, a symptom that can range from nagging to debilitating. If you’ve told doctor after… Read more: Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 7: Sleep Disorders
- Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 5: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)I’ve been working on this chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) series in large part because here at WholeHealth Chicago our practitioners see so many patients who say right up front, “I’ve… Read more: Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 5: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Fitness & Exercise
- Anti-Aging Therapies: Carl Bogaard, Hormones, and PeptidesBefore I get into today’s details about longevity medicine–lab tests, hormones, peptides, and the like—let’s pause and reflect on Carl Bogaard, who died August 7 at age 103. Mr. Bogaard… Read more: Anti-Aging Therapies: Carl Bogaard, Hormones, and Peptides
- Should You Try a Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting?Just about half the patients we see in our office classify themselves as overweight and wish they weren’t. Not many are in the obese range, likely because when you come… Read more: Should You Try a Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting?
- Before I Forget: My Supplements for MemoryAs we get older, many of us do worry about the health and well-being of our brains. No kid taking the SAT who forgets a vocabulary word she’d studied the… Read more: Before I Forget: My Supplements for Memory
Health Insurance Issues
- Weight Loss Surgery: A Health Tip For The Seriously ObeseI know most of you reading these Health Tips are health oriented, possibly a little overweight, some post-pregnancy and others due to Covid inactivity, nothing too serious. But if you… Read more: Weight Loss Surgery: A Health Tip For The Seriously Obese
- Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement PlansIf you’re a WholeHealth Chicago patient, you’ve likely noticed that we review your list of nutritional supplements during each appointment. Conventional doctors ask what prescription meds you’re taking (and of… Read more: Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement Plans
- A Genuinely Useful Blood TestMany a time, in person or via phone, someone will say a variation of “Look, I’m taking all these vitamins and minerals but I really don’t know what I’m doing.… Read more: A Genuinely Useful Blood Test
Healthy Lifestyle
- You’re Only As Old As Your ArteriesI first heard this phrase in medical school, but physicians have been using the phrase “hardening of the arteries” to describe the slow decline and death of old people probably… Read more: You’re Only As Old As Your Arteries
- Anti-Aging Therapies: Carl Bogaard, Hormones, and PeptidesBefore I get into today’s details about longevity medicine–lab tests, hormones, peptides, and the like—let’s pause and reflect on Carl Bogaard, who died August 7 at age 103. Mr. Bogaard… Read more: Anti-Aging Therapies: Carl Bogaard, Hormones, and Peptides
- Your Blue Poop: An Easy At-Home Test of Gut HealthAnyone who has ever visited a WholeHealth Chicago Functional Medicine practitioner knows that lots of questions focus on digestion. The reason for this goes all the way back to the… Read more: Your Blue Poop: An Easy At-Home Test of Gut Health
Immune System
- Finally! Whole Health Chicago To Open A South Side OfficeOK, OK, so it took 20 years, but it will be worth the wait. WholeHealth Chicago’s new location is in the Beverly neighborhood, at 3237 W, 111th Street. The location… Read more: Finally! Whole Health Chicago To Open A South Side Office
- Ubiquitous Autoimmune ConditionsHere’s a statistic that might surprise you: there are more than 100 different autoimmune conditions and they collectively cause more chronic illness and disability in women than heart disease and… Read more: Ubiquitous Autoimmune Conditions
- Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 3: Your Adrenal GlandsPatricia is 33, happily married as far as marriages go, one daughter, steadily employed in a less-than-satisfying corporate job, good eating habits, and, until recently, a health club goer a… Read more: Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 3: Your Adrenal Glands
Inflammation
- Remarkable Intravenous GlutathioneWe’ve been administering IV glutathione at WholeHealth Chicago for years now, but because I’ve been observing more widespread acceptance among conventional physicians from a range of specialties (including cosmetic surgeons,… Read more: Remarkable Intravenous Glutathione
- What Supplements Do You Take, Dr E?It’s a question I’m asked with some regularity. Last week, when I told you about our new WholeHealth Supplement Plans for personalized monthly supplement delivery (which we started offering yesterday),… Read more: What Supplements Do You Take, Dr E?
- Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement PlansIf you’re a WholeHealth Chicago patient, you’ve likely noticed that we review your list of nutritional supplements during each appointment. Conventional doctors ask what prescription meds you’re taking (and of… Read more: Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement Plans
Integrative Medicine
- Finally! Whole Health Chicago To Open A South Side OfficeOK, OK, so it took 20 years, but it will be worth the wait. WholeHealth Chicago’s new location is in the Beverly neighborhood, at 3237 W, 111th Street. The location… Read more: Finally! Whole Health Chicago To Open A South Side Office
- Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 15: Long CovidDoctors who work with patients who have chronic fatigue, chronic Lyme, and fibromyalgia have remarked on the similarity between people with these conditions and those suffering the frequently disabling symptoms… Read more: Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 15: Long Covid
- Wikipedia’s Disservice to Alternative MedicineWe’ll return to the Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue series next week, but today a change of pace. I feel I must write about this Wiki business because yet again… Read more: Wikipedia’s Disservice to Alternative Medicine
Lyme Disease & Morgellons
- Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 10: The Tick Bite You Don’t RememberYou’re 11 years old. Or 16. Or 30. Like most Chicagoans, you regard Wisconsin and Michigan as places that exist to rent us cabins for fishing, swimming, and hiking in… Read more: Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 10: The Tick Bite You Don’t Remember
- Jonathan Toews, Covid-19, and CIRSPerhaps you’ve heard about the Chicago Blackhawks captain, his long illness, and the good news that he’s back on the ice. After saying in December that feeling drained and lethargic… Read more: Jonathan Toews, Covid-19, and CIRS
- Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement PlansIf you’re a WholeHealth Chicago patient, you’ve likely noticed that we review your list of nutritional supplements during each appointment. Conventional doctors ask what prescription meds you’re taking (and of… Read more: Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement Plans
Men’s Health
- You’re Only As Old As Your ArteriesI first heard this phrase in medical school, but physicians have been using the phrase “hardening of the arteries” to describe the slow decline and death of old people probably… Read more: You’re Only As Old As Your Arteries
- Anti-Aging Therapies: Carl Bogaard, Hormones, and PeptidesBefore I get into today’s details about longevity medicine–lab tests, hormones, peptides, and the like—let’s pause and reflect on Carl Bogaard, who died August 7 at age 103. Mr. Bogaard… Read more: Anti-Aging Therapies: Carl Bogaard, Hormones, and Peptides
- Phosphatidyl Choline for Anti-Aging and Chronic IllnessYou’ve likely read or heard about phosphatidyl choline somewhere, maybe online or on a bottle in a supplement aisle. Maybe, like many of us, you could barely pronounce it, and… Read more: Phosphatidyl Choline for Anti-Aging and Chronic Illness
Mental Health
- Before I Forget: My Supplements for MemoryAs we get older, many of us do worry about the health and well-being of our brains. No kid taking the SAT who forgets a vocabulary word she’d studied the… Read more: Before I Forget: My Supplements for Memory
- This Side Of The Sod: Dr E’s Anti-Aging SupplementsSlowing the rate at which you age isn’t just for old people. If you’re under 40, the supplement basics offered in WholeHealth Plan #1 provide plenty of coverage, provided you… Read more: This Side Of The Sod: Dr E’s Anti-Aging Supplements
- What Supplements Do You Take, Dr E?It’s a question I’m asked with some regularity. Last week, when I told you about our new WholeHealth Supplement Plans for personalized monthly supplement delivery (which we started offering yesterday),… Read more: What Supplements Do You Take, Dr E?
Nutrition, Nutritional Supplements, Vitamins, & Herbal Remedies
- Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 6: Low MagnesiumGeorge Lundberg, MD, former editor of JAMA and now editor-at-large of Medscape, refers to low levels of magnesium as “the emperor of all maladies.” Magnesium is largely ignored by doctors,… Read more: Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 6: Low Magnesium
- Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 4: Vitamin DeficienciesYou might be surprised how many of the health and medical facts we accept unquestioningly today are exactly the opposite of what my chosen profession recommended to the public back… Read more: Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 4: Vitamin Deficiencies
- Should You Try a Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting?Just about half the patients we see in our office classify themselves as overweight and wish they weren’t. Not many are in the obese range, likely because when you come… Read more: Should You Try a Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting?
Pain Management
- Peripheral NeuropathiesMost neurologists and primary care doctors will tell you that one of the most frustrating groups of conditions to treat are the peripheral neuropathies. It’s estimated that somewhere on the… Read more: Peripheral Neuropathies
- WELCOME TO WHOLEHEALTH CHICAGO! ANNGELA LEONE, LAc.Anngela Leone, LAc. Is a licensed and board certified acupuncturist and herbalist in the state of Illinois. Anngela offers minimally invasive healing modalities that allow your body to heal itself.… Read more: WELCOME TO WHOLEHEALTH CHICAGO! ANNGELA LEONE, LAc.
- What is Low-Dose Naltrexone (LDN) and Can It Help Me?Ten years ago April marks the anniversary of the first time I wrote about low-dose naltrexone (LDN). I described it as an orphan drug, meaning that its patent had long… Read more: What is Low-Dose Naltrexone (LDN) and Can It Help Me?
Sexual Health
- Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement PlansIf you’re a WholeHealth Chicago patient, you’ve likely noticed that we review your list of nutritional supplements during each appointment. Conventional doctors ask what prescription meds you’re taking (and of… Read more: Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement Plans
- Menopause Hell? Quell The Fire With Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)When it’s time, you can expect to transition through menopause in one of three ways. If you’re unlucky enough to land in Menopause Hell, give some serious thought to bioidentical… Read more: Menopause Hell? Quell The Fire With Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)
- Commonly Overlooked Diagnoses: The Subtleties of PMSSeveral women’s health websites place the number of symptoms attributable to premenstrual syndrome (PMS) at 150. I personally think that’s an undercount. I really began to appreciate this some years… Read more: Commonly Overlooked Diagnoses: The Subtleties of PMS
Thyroid, Adrenal, & Sex Hormone Issues
- Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 2: Minimally Underactive ThyroidI went to medical school in London for a while and truly it was great fun. This was the 1960s–Beatles, Stones, Carnaby Street–and if you were going to be anywhere… Read more: Root Causes of Chronic Fatigue, Part 2: Minimally Underactive Thyroid
- Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement PlansIf you’re a WholeHealth Chicago patient, you’ve likely noticed that we review your list of nutritional supplements during each appointment. Conventional doctors ask what prescription meds you’re taking (and of… Read more: Introducing Our New WholeHealth Supplement Plans
- Commonly Missed Diagnosis: Early Autoimmune DiseaseAmazingly enough, there are more than 100 different autoimmune conditions, which collectively are responsible for more chronic illness and disability in women than heart disease and cancer combined. Men can… Read more: Commonly Missed Diagnosis: Early Autoimmune Disease
Weight Issues
- Weight Loss Surgery: A Health Tip For The Seriously ObeseI know most of you reading these Health Tips are health oriented, possibly a little overweight, some post-pregnancy and others due to Covid inactivity, nothing too serious. But if you… Read more: Weight Loss Surgery: A Health Tip For The Seriously Obese
- Your Blue Poop: An Easy At-Home Test of Gut HealthAnyone who has ever visited a WholeHealth Chicago Functional Medicine practitioner knows that lots of questions focus on digestion. The reason for this goes all the way back to the… Read more: Your Blue Poop: An Easy At-Home Test of Gut Health
- Should You Try a Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting?Just about half the patients we see in our office classify themselves as overweight and wish they weren’t. Not many are in the obese range, likely because when you come… Read more: Should You Try a Ketogenic Diet and Intermittent Fasting?
Women’s Health
- Finally! Whole Health Chicago To Open A South Side OfficeOK, OK, so it took 20 years, but it will be worth the wait. WholeHealth Chicago’s new location is in the Beverly neighborhood, at 3237 W, 111th Street. The location… Read more: Finally! Whole Health Chicago To Open A South Side Office
- You’re Only As Old As Your ArteriesI first heard this phrase in medical school, but physicians have been using the phrase “hardening of the arteries” to describe the slow decline and death of old people probably… Read more: You’re Only As Old As Your Arteries
- PCOS: Overlooked and Under-TreatedA recent report revealed that there are so many cases of polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) in the US that costs for diagnosis and lifetime treatments are estimated to be $8… Read more: PCOS: Overlooked and Under-Treated