How I work

& What I focus on

As a medical provider continuously for more than 20 years I've worked with thousands of people with a variety of health concerns.

List of areas of focus and experience:

Specialty in Digestive health problems:

Eosinophilic esophagitis

Functional diarrhea

Functional constipation

Functional dyspepsia

Gastroesophageal reflux (GERD)

Intestinal dysbiosis/Intestinal Microbial overgrowth

Irritable bowel syndrome

Inflammatory bowel disease – Crohn’s and Ulcerative colitis

Microscopic colitis (Collagenous and Lymphocytic colitis)

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO)

Fungal/yeast overgrowth

Undiagnosed digestive problems

Metabolic

Diabetes/High blood sugar

Lipid disorders/high cholesterol & triglycerides

Preventative

Cognitive support

Diet counseling

Nutritional medicine

Exercise and movement counseling and referrals

Men’s health

Support for aging minds and bodies

Immune

Allergies – environmental and foods

Autoimmune (including Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, non-specific autoimmune disease)

Mast cell activation

Histamine intolerance

Chronic fatigue

Fibromyalgia

Endocrine

Thyroid disorders

Estrogen, Progesterone and coordinated support for Testosterone

Perimenopausal support

Men's health

Dermatological/Skin

Eczema

Psoriasis

Hives/Chronic Urticaria

Acne

Undiagnosed skin issues

Mental Health

Adjunctive support for anxiety, depression and other mental health challenges

Reference lab and non-reference lab interpretation

Incuding but certainly not limited to:

SIBO/Lactulose/Fructose &/or Glucose breathing testing

Stool microbiome testing

Advanced lipid profiles

Treatment specialties

Nutrition & dietary interventions

Functional medicine

Botanical/Herbal Medicine

Hormone replacement

Homeopathic medicine

Referrals to specialized providers, if needed

Raging from preventative questions to helping people address advanced chronic illness.

As I've worked in health care for years, bridging both conventional and natural medicine approaches, I've found the following:

Or a diagnosis is unclear

However, in a lot of cases, people's health problems do not easily fit a single diagnosis.

The cardinal approach of medicine is to diagnose a health problem

Of course this is very important, because when a diagnosis is clear, it can help predict what may happen, identify a cause and lead to specific treatments

When this happens, while the role of a doctor is to still to work with the patient to find a cause/diagnose the problem, the person is still suffering from discomfort and distress

Sometimes doctors lose track of the patient's concerns and forget they also need to help them feel better and move toward better health

This is a way of classifying and understanding a health difficulty

One of the advantages of certain natural medicine approaches is that treatments can be applied to support health, even as we work on identifying a cause or finding a diagnosis

Natural medicine has a deep tool box with many options to help a person's system to work more effectively even if there is no direct treatment for a specific disease or diagnosis, or that diagnosis is unknown

And in the case when a cause or causes are identified, or suspected, an integrative, functional and natural medicine approach can help people to both support their system over all, while we also work to provide direct treatment options to treat dysfunction