by Jessamine Sothard | Jul 14, 2022 | Blog, Functional Medicine
If you haven’t been thinking about how you are aging now and you haven’t been taking steps proactively to manage it, then by the time you finally address it, it may be too late. Aging is inevitable, but how you age—that, my friend—is within your control. ...
by Jessamine Sothard | Jun 28, 2022 | Blog, Lifestyle
We are well aware that the chronic disease epidemic is on the rise. But did you know that a majority of modern-day illnesses (over 85 percent of them) are driven by our behavior and environment and not our genes? This suggests that we have HUGE potential in preventing...
by Jessamine Sothard | Jun 27, 2022 | Blog, Functional Medicine
Issues in the gut don’t necessarily cause gut issues. It seems obvious to look at the gut when that is the patient’s primary concern but what about when those symptoms are not a big concern? You know how they say what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas? The gut...
by Jessamine Sothard | Jun 25, 2022 | Blog, Functional Medicine
Do you ever just feel inflamed and swollen? Do you wonder why? Conventional medicine is very good at diagnosing what is wrong. But more often than not the question of WHY is never being addressed with the conventional approach. Some of the typical...
by Jessamine Sothard | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog, Hormone Health
It depends on who you ask. When medical practices bill insurance companies for patient visits, they need to include codes (called ICD-10 codes) to denote what is wrong with the patient. There are 68,000 codes to choose from, yet there is no code for adrenal...
by Jessamine Sothard | Jun 17, 2022 | Blog, Mindset
These are typical scenarios I hear from patients in my practice: “I’m tired. I mean I have the energy to do the things I HAVE to do but at the end of the day, I don’t have the energy to do the things I WANT to do.” “I have every symptom of low...