I have a routine, a ritual. Every Tuesday and Thursday before I play tennis, I stop in my local Panera for decaf coffee, sometimes with a splash of almond milk depending on if I’m fasting or keeping my ketones high, and time with my thoughts and computer. This...
If you’ve ever felt like your digestive system has a mind of its own — bloating, pain, constipation, diarrhea that flares no matter how “clean” you eat — you’re not entirely wrong. I want to share a story from a recent patient. By the time he...
“I’ve never seen you so healthy,” told my brother as I saw him recently. “It’s all because of you, Jen.” “It’s actually all because of Mom, ” I replied. I reminded him how he made a comment last summer about though...
Every morning I wake up, and it’s another day. A single mom of two busy boys, a busy integrative health practice, spreading this work to other health professionals, and watching my father decline cognitively, there are many mornings I would prefer to continue to...
I work with an Integrative OB/GYN practice out of Irvine, California. It was during a ROUGH mental/emotional time in my life in which hormone imbalances in addition to past traumas and my mom’s death and her journey with cancer and Alzheimer’s. I needed...
Two days ’til Thanksgiving…I really don’t get excited about the winter holidays much since my mom died in 2022. I enjoy them, and do what I need to do to have celebrations and traditions for my family, but I don’t get too excited. I don’t...
