Functional & Nutritional Medicine

Metabolic Syndrome, previously known as Syndrome X and cardio-metabolic syndrome or insulin resistance syndrome is defined by any three of the following criteria:

Blood pressure greater than 13O/85
Triglycerides greater than 150 mg/dl
Blood sugar greater than 100 mg/dl
Waist circumference >40 inches in men and >35 inches in women
HDL below 40 mg/dl in men and <40 mg/dl in [...]

Many people with chronic muscle pains have seen several doctors and specialists in search of a diagnosis and relief. Many of these individuals are looking for natural treatments and cures, preferring not to take a lot of prescription medications forever. The word fibromyalgia describes characteristic tender points in the soft tissues above and below the [...]

Functional Medicine is a new way about thinking about chronic illness based on systems biology. It looks at how physical symptoms fit patterns of connections i.e. web-like functioning of the immune-hormonal-nervous-gastrointestinal-cellular and genomic systems of our body. It is both microscopic (small picture) and telescopic (big picture) at the same time. Functional Medicine does not [...]

Previous medical studies showed that lifestyle and dietary changes could provide long lasting protection against Type II or Adult Onset Diabetes but doctors weren’t sure for how long. Now a new just published in the journal Lancet, the longest follow up of patients from the Diabetes Prevention Program Research Group provides the answer. This study [...]

According to the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) affects about 70 million adults in the U.S. or 30% of the adult population. About 20 % of these individuals have the more severe form called non-alcoholic steatohepatitis or NASH. NAFLD is emerging as a major cause of chronic liver disease and [...]