Birth control, hormone replacement therapy and more Hormones are the chemical messengers in the body, and for women diagnosed with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), these messages may be inconsistent. SLE -- the most common form of lupus -- is an autoimmune disease [...]
Lupus symptoms and diagnosis Focus on feeling better Lupus is a disease that has proven in the past to be quite difficult to identify and control. Lupus is an autoimmune disease which causes chronic extensive inflammation. There are a number of types [...]
Updated 03/24/2021 The more we understand about the impact of inflammation on our bodies, the more we understand how critical it is to reduce inflammation as much as possible. The best case scenario, of course, is to prevent inflammation from becoming chronic [...]
Over many years we have found that preventing or reversing inflammation is all about listening to your body. From that listening you can begin to learn first-hand what increases or reduces your body’s inflammatory response. You can cool your body’s inflammatory response [...]
Systemic or chronic inflammation has a domino effect that can seriously undermine your health. So how does it all begin? The Immune System and the Inflammatory Response Many experts now see inflammation as arising from an immune system response that’s out of [...]
Updated 04/11/2021 So often, patients arrive in my office with signs of inflammation resulting from some type of allergy that they didn’t even realize they had. It can be hard to convince these women that the pain, swelling, fatigue and other uncomfortable [...]
Updated 3/17/2021 One of the great things about having been in practice for more than three decades is to finally see some changing trends that align more with what I’ve been talking about since the very beginning. Gluten sensitivity is a perfect [...]
