by Jessamine Sothard | May 6, 2024 | Blog, Functional Medicine
What’s the most common question I get when people visit my website for the first time? The winner, undoubtedly, is: “Do you take insurance?” The quick answer to that is no, and here’s why. When I chose to leave conventional medicine to start my...
by Jessamine Sothard | Jan 9, 2024 | Blog, Hormone Health
What is the Thyroid? Your thyroid is a small, butterfly-shaped gland situated at the base of the front of your neck, just below your Adam’s apple. Hormones produced by the thyroid gland, such as — triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4) — have an enormous...
by Jessamine Sothard | Dec 18, 2023 | Blog, Mitochondrial Health
Did you know our body is made up of 37.2 Trillion cells? Yep, that’s Trillion with a T. The health of those cells determines your overall health, let alone your cellular health. An important organelle inside the cell is the mitochondria. Multiple mitochondria are...
by Jessamine Sothard | Nov 27, 2023 | Blog, Functional Medicine
Around the age of 40, I noticed a shift in how I felt. My weight wasn’t as easy to maintain as it had been in my younger years. Despite having a great life, I felt more irritable and moody than I had previously. Additionally, while I had the energy to do all...
by Jessamine Sothard | Nov 20, 2023 | Blog, Functional Medicine
When I went to medical school, I never heard of functional medicine. It wasn’t a choice, as a path forward, that I was aware of. While there was a lot I liked about my work as a Family Practitioner, I knew in my gut for many years that although there was a lot we were...
