A good night’s sleep is absolutely essential for our health. Cortisol, our main stress hormone and hormone of alertness, peaks at around 9am and then should drop to an absolutely…
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The Five Branches of Health: The Reemergence of Ancient Health Wisdom in Modern Functional Medicine Traditionally, the Five Branches of Chinese medicine referred to five unique strategies for…
The Potato Hack Intervention is a short term tool to check the reactivity of the gut to Resistant Starch (RS), reset the hedonic system, create metabolic flexibility, resolve inflammatory conditions,…
For thousands of years Chinese medicine has identified the gut as being one of the primary players in autoimmune disease. Finally, modern science is catching up! A recent study…
Let’s face it… cholesterol is confusing. The lab spits out a number that is a combination of our HDL, LDL, and triglycerides and somehow we are supposed to make healthcare…
For those of you who follow our Facebook posts or blog you know we have been highlighting the safety concerns of ibuprofen and other OTC pain medications. Ibuprofen poses a…
Here at Origins Medicine one of the first lifestyle recommendations we make for all of our patients is to cut out industrialized seed oils. These oils are high in omega-6…
Sleep: the elixir of life! We all want more and better quality, but how do we go about it? Insomnia is a multifaceted problem. Sleep is a biological imperative and…
For many of us our mental acuity defines our personal and professional lives. We strive to connect deeply in our relationships and push ourselves to new levels of professional creativity….
The last decade has seen a successful and masterful effort by beverage companies to sell us energy drinks. They promise to provide us limitless energy to power us through our…
