Complementary medical therapies and testing

I offer scientifically backed therapies to complement the care you receive from your primary care physician and medical specialists. Even though people might have the same set of symptoms or same diagnosed disease, I recognize the individuality of each person in helping you decide what type of therapy best fits your needs. My emphasis is on repairing and balancing the gastrointestinal system, which contains over 70% of your immune system; using food as medicine, which includes eliminating food sensitivities; and lowering your stress response to support your inner physician, the body's natural ability to heal.  

Functional Medicine

Functional medicine is personalized medicine that deals with primary prevention and underlying causes instead of symptoms for serious chronic disease. It is a science-based field of health care that is grounded in the following principles:

  • Biochemical individuality describes the importance of individual variations in metabolic function that derive from genetic and environmental differences among individuals.
  • Patient-centered medicine emphasizes "patient care" rather than "disease care," following Sir William Osler’s admonition that "It is more important to know what patient has the disease than to know what disease the patient has."
  • Dynamic balance of internal and external factors.
  • Web-like interconnections of physiological factors – an abundance of research now supports the view that the human body functions as an orchestrated network of interconnected systems, rather than individual systems functioning autonomously and without effect on each other. For example, we now know that immunological dysfunctions can promote cardiovascular disease, that dietary imbalances can cause hormonal disturbances, and that environmental exposures can precipitate neurologic syndromes such as Parkinson’s disease.
  • Health as a positive vitality – not merely the absence of disease.
  • Promotion of organ reserve as the means to enhance health span.

Ondamed

Supporting optimal mind and body function through application of very low level pulsed electromagnetic fields using pulse biofeedback (vascular autonomic signal) as a guide.

Alpha-Stim 100

An FDA approved microcurrent device for treating anxiety, depression, insomnia, and pain.

 Microcurrent Electrical Therapy (MET) using tiny electrical currents with small probes strategically applied to the body to achieve reproducible reduction in acute and chronic pain.

Cranial Electrotherapy Stimulation (CES) applies tiny electrical currents less than one milliampere (1,000 microamperes) through the brain via ear clip electrodes to successfully treat anxiety, depression and insomnia.

Integrative Nutrition

ALCAT Food Sensitivity Testing

Genova Diagnostics Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis

Urinary Organic Acid Testing

NeuroScience Urinary Neurotransmitter Testing

Antioxidant Testing

Homeopathy

Spectracell Micronutrient Profile Testing

Natural Allergy Elimination

Detoxification