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Explore articles about whole-person care, digestive health, hormones, thyroid health, aging and everyday wellness.

33 articles

Let's Talk about (Peri-) Menopause!

50% of the human population experiences menstrual periods and its inevitable conclusion: Menopause. So why is menopause so poorly understood or supported? Women are either offered no help for life-altering symptoms, or their only option is hormone therapy in often questionable doses and durations with no consideration of its repercussions, or antidepressants.

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Do I Really Have PCOS?

In this blog, we’ll dig into what PCOS is, what can contribute to PCOS and ovarian cyst symptoms and how to treat PCOS from a Functional medicine perspective.

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Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT)

At InHealthRVA, bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) is used in conjunction with identifying and treating other root causes that can contribute to hormone dysregulation and/or have similar symptoms. It is also important to know that where one part of our hormone system is out of balance, there may be other imbalances as well.

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Spring is here ! 🌸…and so are your allergies

Whether you have good control of your allergies with conventional treatments or are looking for better or alternative answers for your allergies, a Functional medicine approach can give you a whole lot more options and deeper treatments for this common ailment.

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Why am I tired? (Part 2)

In Part 1 of this series we discussed the foundational lifestyle factors that contribute to fatigue. Regardless of other causes, these lifestyle factors must always be addressed to recover from fatigue. In the following parts of this series “Why am I tired?” we will discuss other variables that can contribute to fatigue.

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Why am I tired? (Part 1)

And what to do about it. Oh, let me count the ways… Over 40% of adult Americans report feeling tired about half the time, and as much as 50% more women report being tired than men.

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Heart Disease: Do you Know Your Risk?

While many of us are feeling deeply concerned these days about threats from the physical. social, or political world, the truth is that for the vast majority of us: ...we are statistically far more likely to die of heart disease than any other cause.

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Understanding and Diagnosing Chronic Lyme disease.

The first step in most healing processes is being able to identify what needs to be healed accurately. It seems like a simple enough point, but in reality, getting a diagnosis can be a complex and muddy part of your therapeutic path. In particular, chronic Lyme disease and associated infections can be very challenging.

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Chronic Lyme: Infection and Your Health

Once upon a time, around the mid-19th century, science figured out that bacteria not only exist, but can cause many of the human diseases that led to ~%50 of all human deaths at the time. This “one infection = one disease” theory has since dominated medical understanding and practice.

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Women's Health Series: Hypothyroidism Part 1

What is hypothyroidism? How do you know if you might be dealing with hypothyroidism? And what can you do about it? In the first part of this series, we will dive into understanding how the thyroid system works and what hypothyroidism is. By understanding it, we will be able to figure out how to heal from it!

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From PMS to Menopause: Feeling Bad is Not Normal.

There is little to no proper diagnosis, understanding, or treatment for women’s specific health issues in conventional modern medicine. Women are almost universally led to incorrectly believe that things like PMS, painful and irregular periods PCOS, and menstrual migraines are just something you have to live with.

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Microbiome and Your Health A Primer

Our body and the microbe ecosystem are completely dependent on each other for life. Microbes produce vitamins and other nutrients we need for survival and program our immune system, metabolism and behavior to a significant degree. They rely on us for food and a habitable environment that tolerates their existence.

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Podcast: Gut Health During Cancer Treatment

Dr. Tressa Breindel was recently a guest speaker on the Hitting Cancer Below the Belt Podcast. She discusses the empowering approach of treating underlying causes of health issues and not simply medicating or managing symptoms.

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Health Care Is Failing Women: 3 Questions to Ask Your Physician

In today’s doctor’s offices, the health issues that affect women the most are inadequately understood and treated. IBS, hypothyroid, migraines and autoimmune disease affect far more women than men. Not to mention the plethora of women-specific health issues such as PMS, difficult periods, menopause, fertility and postpartum wellness.

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Does Diet Matter in IBD?

Many of us may have had a doctor tell us that what you eat doesn’t matter in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Or just to eat a low residue diet. To put it mildly:, this is not true.. If you have IBD, your diet can make-or-break your healing.

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IBD 101: So you have Inflammatory Bowel Disease. What is it?

IBD is an autoimmune disease in which your immune system creates proteins called auto-antibodies, which are antibodies that attack your own tissue. Normally antibodies are produced in order to attack and get rid of unwanted invaders, but in autoimmune disease, we end up producing antibodies against our own body’s tissue.

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