Why Lifestyle Medicine is so important: How many times have you been to your Physician, Physician Assistant or Nurse Practitioner and before you barely said hello the visit was over and you walked out with a ‘handful of prescriptions’ that were targeting symptoms and not addressing the root cause? It’s not because they don’t care but unless you’re in a concierge practice they don’t have time to address the Root Cause of your chronic problems and we’re not trained in holistic

What are they? How do they work? Are they all the same? Are they dangerous? Do you have to stay on them the rest of your life? What are they? First and foremost they get rid of that loud “FOOD NOISE” which is the constant, intrusive thoughts about eating. GLP-1s has become a game changer in treating the disease of Obesity. It is a naturally occurring hormone produced in your small intestine and the medication mimics this hormone but stays in our body longer than the natura

In my quest for increasing my daily protein I’m on a mushroom journey and thoroughly enjoying the variety and interesting flavors and textures. Mushrooms are unique because they aren’t plants or animals - they belong to the kingdom of Fungi so it gives them a distinct nutritional profile and contains a variety of powerful phytochemical that offers several functional health benefits - they’re nutritional superheroes. Low in fat and sodium overflowing with fiber and loaded wit

I wasn’t overweight growing up but found myself morbidly obese after moving to the South when my son was 5 yrs old for multiple reasons. I had never fully lost the pregnancy weight and once in the South I gained 35 lbs in the first two years eating fast food, junk food and at buffets and after that it was all downhill from there. We were outdoor kids growing up but my mother was on an eternal diet and growing up around overweight children and seeing how hard it was for them I