2018 – Page 2 – Vancouver Functional Medicine and Naturopathic Medicine Clinic

Endocrinology - Hormone Health, From the blog, General Health, Uncategorized March 31, 2018 13145Views 1Like 0Comments

How’s your sex drive?

Testosterone plays an essential role in the sexual health of both men and women. Although lower than optimal testosterone levels are not the only factor connected to low sex drive, testosterone along with the balance of other hormones are very important in understanding individual concerns with libido. Where women have larger amounts of estrogens to keep a spring in their…

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From the blog, Immunology - Immune and Cancer, Uncategorized March 10, 2018 5954Views 0Likes 0Comments

Killing Your Cold and Seasonal Allergies

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This year has been a particularity brutal cold and flu season with currently no end in sight, but allergy season is also right around the corner with warmer weather on the horizon! Although Westcoast Integrative Health is all about functional medicine, health enhancement and treatment of chronic health conditions, sometimes we need to throw all of that out the window…

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From the blog, Immunology - Immune and Cancer, Uncategorized February 25, 2018 7777Views 0Likes 0Comments

Autoimmune Disease – Functional Medicine

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The current conventional medical model for the treatment of autoimmunity is focused on immune suppression or the use of biological agents like Humira™. Humira is a biological drug that blocks the effects of a specific inflammatory molecule in our bodies. Immune suppressive drugs like prednisone or non-steriodal anti-inflammatory medications are also typically used along with chemical therapy treatments like methotrexate…

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Uncategorized February 10, 2018 9424Views 0Likes 0Comments

Functional Medicine – Anxiety and Depression

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There is nothing typical about having serious anxiety or debilitating depression, except sometimes the treatment that is offered. The standard characters include cipralex, celexa, zoloft, effexor, prozac, luvox, paxil and now pristiq. It is also important to note that a lot of the time these pharmaceuticals seem to really help the people that use them. In fact they help about…

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Family Health, From the blog, General Health, News, Uncategorized January 25, 2018 11810Views 0Likes 0Comments

Self Guided Functional Medicine

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We are all busy … and recently it has come to my attention, more than ever, that trying to explain the importance of lab testing to clients is tough. Not everyone has a medical degree, 5000 plus patient experience and has spent 22 years learning how to treat chronic health conditions. Patients often find the information overwhelming and feel that…

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From the blog, General Health January 14, 2018 7097Views 0Likes 0Comments

When is Eating a Disorder?

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Disordered eating is one of those surprisingly common conditions that most people do not like to think about. The fact is that up to 40% of our young women, and a growing percentage of men, suffer from some form of distorted body image and have a belief that they are overweight, while up to 1.5 % have a diagnosable form…

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