New European research has found that individuals with low levels of vitamin D may have a higher risk of an early death, particularly if they have diabetes.
It’s time to beat stubborn pain! We are excited here at Origins Medicine to announce that we are now offering Motor Point acupuncture. You will sometimes hear this referred to…
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…
Hello everyone! My name is Maria Paz, raised here in the Bay Area but my family and I are from Honduras. I recently obtained a bachelors degree in biology from…
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…
At Origins most therapeutic programs involve some sort of supplementation protocol. We always give our clients a detailed plan of when to take what supplement. This is important because if…
A few basic facts to remember are that sugar is extremely toxic to the body and must be kept in a very narrow range within the blood. This is why…