Depression Improved with Diet and Lifestyle Changes A True Story Today I met with a patient whose 17-year old son had been diagnosed with depression. When we’d last met, his son had been seen by a psychiatrist who determined from a short visit that he required treatment with an antidepressant. As none of the SSRI…
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How Your Gut Health Impacts Your Overall Health A healthy gut impacts your overall health. The gut microbiome is highly responsive to diet, and impacts every aspect of physiology from digestion to endocrine function. In this video webinar for Pure Encapsulations, Dr. Felice L. Gersh discusses the clinical connections between the gut microbiome and women’s health, with…
Certain Foods Tied to Increased Depression Risk This article came as no surprise to me! The new and exciting field of nutritional psychiatry is so key to cognitive and mental health. Of course what we eat matters to our brain! And how we feel emotionally is clearly linked to our physical state. Our brains need…
Grey Hair Linked with Increased Heart Disease Risk in Men You thought of your grey hair as a cosmetic burden to deal with, along with being an outright nuisance … and considered that to be plenty to contend with. Now it turns out that the grey is so more than “hair strand deep!” It’s now…
7 Different Ways to Look Absolutely Fabulous As an integrative medical practice, we take a broad view of beauty. Though seen on the outside, beauty is truly a reflection of the physiological processes taking place throughout the body, on both the outside and from deep within our bodies. Skin problems result from hormonal imbalances, deep-seated…