“Dr. Derek Lawrence, founder and lead clinician at Revive Naturopathic Medicine, has been around medicine and healthcare all his life…When asked about why he studied naturopathic medicine, he had this to say, “My dad was a radiologist so I kind of grew up around medicine and all the big medical words, and I think that it evolved into some like, ‘well my dad’s a doc, I want to do that too’…”
We're going to be talking about Transcranial Low-Level Laser Therapy for stress and anxiety. I'm really excited about this treatment. We do it routinely on a lot of my patients because, quite honestly, who doesn't have stress, and every once in a while we all get a little anxious. Some of my patients call this a “laser Xanax.” I've never taken a Xanax, so I don't know how it feels; however, it seems to help them a lot—particularly in the moment…
So, good news, you just had your colonoscopy and everything came back fine. Wonderful! That's what I love to hear; however, your colonoscopy isn’t perfect. What did they miss? They do miss a few things. I always encourage patients when they get the good news of having a clean colonoscopy (no polyps, no other lesions): what's the next step?…
Our bodies are well adapted to dealing with acute stressors, but chronic stressors, not as much. Our society lives in a very sympathetic dominant state. We, more or less, live in fight or flight mode. The things that we stress over now are things like money, raising kids, school, family, relationships, work and driving on the interstates.
Autoimmune diseases are a cluster of more than 80 chronic, and often debilitating, diseases affecting 22.5 million Americans. Generally speaking, an autoimmune disease is a condition wherein the body’s immune system begins to attacks its own cells. The immune system is not “over-active”; rather, it is confused….
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