Posted on 8/2/2011
Welcome to our summary of Monday night’s seminar on The Secret Life of Hormones. What a huge topic—we barely scratched the surface—so we dove right in to the latest research.
“BOOT CAMP”
-a short-term, strict health regimen to shock your system into success
(without the yelling and the push-ups)
A 9 week program- Check it out for more details
Posted on 5/11/2011
Welcome to our summary of Monday night’s seminar on Contagious Infection in the 21st Century. Dr. den Boer had just returned from a Functional Medicine Symposium in Seattle, Washington, and spent the greater part of the seminar sharing exciting research highlights.
Posted on 3/7/2011
Welcome to our summary of Monday night's seminar on the origin of disease within our individual bodies. We started off with a bang of science and statistics, warning the crowd that this would be a 'toothy' lecture but well worth hanging in there given all our concerns about robust health. Why are so many people experiencing the diseases formerly associated with the extremely elderly at such younger ages? Is there anything that can be done about this? (YES!)
Posted on 2/28/2011
What a fun night! This seminar was a step away from the medical lectures we often present with more of a focus on the 'how' of being healthy, instead of the 'why.' Dr. den Boer did spend a bit of time explaining a study done recently where rats were fed one of three diets: their standard pellets, a well known breakfast cereal, or the cereal box itself. Perhaps not surprising was the fact that the shortest lifespan and most illness happened to the rats that ate the cereal! Processing changes food into something our bodies can't recognize, and we must minimize it wherever possible.
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Posted on 1/31/2011
As we discussed at last month's seminar, toxicity has all sorts of negative implications on our weight. Extra weight can come from a body's attempt to protect itself from toxic overload by insulating with additional layers of fat-the body can even veto the attempt to lose that fat if it's not equipped to handle the detoxification required during fat loss.
Toxicity has a critical impact on our weight, yet somehow, it is usually sidelined as a factor in lieu of focusing on calories and exercise. Eating right and exercising is paramount, but you can do that all life long and not get the results you deserve if your toxicity is unmanaged. Have you ever felt like you’re doing everything right and still you don’t lose? Read on…
Posted on 12/1/2010
Categories: DNA, smoking
Most of us are old enough to remember growing up with second-hand cigarette smoke (remember those blue smoke-filled rooms?). In many cultures, smoking was misunderstood and thought perhaps to be only mildly bad for you. We now know that smoke was even deadlier than imagined.
Auto-Immune disorders are increasing at alarming rates. As functional medicine practitioners, we look at four parts of this issue; origin, treatment, recovery and prevention.
How much is enough? We live in a society that demands more for less, ensuring that we eat too much low-quality food. We call this a value meal? As a whole, we seem to resent meals that cost a little more but serve smaller portions of higher-quality food, when cultures that do this are significantly healthier. How did we get here?