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Comprehensive Functional Medicine Services: Your Path to Optimal Health

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Functional Medicine: A Holistic Approach to Health

What is Functional Medicine?

Functional medicine is a patient-centered approach to healthcare that focuses on identifying and addressing the root causes of illness and disease. Unlike conventional medicine, which often treats symptoms with medications or procedures, functional medicine aims to understand the underlying factors that contribute to health problems. As practitioners, we take into account the patient’s genetic, environmental, and lifes…

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Cycle Syncing Guide Part 4: Your Luteal Phase - Decode Your Menstrual Cycle and Enhance Your Fertility with Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

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Welcome to the FINAL part in our series: Decode Your Menstrual Cycle and Enhance Your Fertility with Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. This series has everything you need to understand your menstrual cycle and its phases, and how to support your body through it all! Be sure to check out Part 1: Menstrual Phase, Part 2 Follicular Phase, and Part 3: Ovulation Phase of the series for the ultimate guide to your cycle!

What You Need to Know

The luteal phase is a time in between ovulation and the next p…

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Cycle Syncing Guide Part 3: Your Ovulation Phase - Decode Your Menstrual Cycle and Enhance Your Fertility with Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

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Welcome to Part 3 of our 4-part series: Decode Your Menstrual Cycle and Enhance Your Fertility with Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. This series is going to give you everything you need to understand your menstrual cycle and its phases, and how to support your body through it all! Be sure to check out Part 1: Menstrual Phase, Part 2: Follicular Phase, and Part 4: Luteal Phase of the series for the ultimate guide to your cycle!


What You Need to Know


Although ovulation is defined as the 14th day in…

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Cycle Syncing Guide Part 2: Your Follicular Phase - Decode Your Menstrual Cycle and Enhance Your Fertility with Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

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Welcome to Part 2 of our 4 part series: Decode Your Menstrual Cycle and Enhance Your Fertility with Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. This series has everything you need to understand your menstrual cycle and its phases, and how to support your body through it all. Be sure to check out Part 1: Menstrual Phase, Part 3: Ovulation Phase, and Part 4: Luteal Phase of the series for the ultimate guide to your cycle!

Let’s get into it!


What You Need to Know

The follicular phase, known as “inner spring”, i…

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Cycle Syncing Guide Part 1: Your Menstrual Phase - Decode Your Menstrual Cycle and Enhance Your Fertility with Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine

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Welcome to Part 1 of our 4-part series: Decode Your Menstrual Cycle and Enhance Your Fertility with Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine. This series is going to give you everything you need to understand your menstrual cycle and its phases, and how to support your body through it all! Be sure to check out Part 2: Follicular Phase, Part 3: Ovulation Phase, and Part 4: Luteal Phase of the series for the ultimate guide to your cycle!

What You Need to Know

Let’s talk about days 1-4 of your cycle, or, the…

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Are You *Actually* Hydrated?

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PSA: Hydration isn't just about drinking enough water. In fact, it's totally possible to be drinking TONS of water and STILL not be truly hydrated.

True hydration on a cellular level requires most of the water we drink to be able to pass through the cell membrane. It can't do this without the help of minerals & electrolytes. Most (if not all) of us are chronically deficient in minerals for many reasons. Our soil is depleted of minerals, therefore our food sources are depleted of minerals. On to…

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TCM Seasonal Attunement for Winter

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Brrrr! The cold just makes you want to curl up under the covers with a cup of tea. Winter is very yin in nature. Living in harmony with winter yields many health benefits. It is a time of restoration, hibernation, and receptivity.

Let’s face it - when it’s January you can’t be acting like its summer time! You might get sick.

So what does it mean to be seasonally attuned? It means living in alignment with the energetic shifts of each season for optimal & preventative health.

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Optimizing Digestion with Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Digestive health is always a hot topic. With new information coming out every day about what trendy foods to include in your diet - it can be difficult to navigate the endless options at the grocery store. The Traditional Chinese Medicine perspective on nutrition relies on tried-and-true traditions of food as medicine. Diet culture is SOLD to us and does not have true, vibrant health at the center of its motive. Their marketing is designed to pinpoint your pain (sluggish digestion, low e…

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Immune Mastery For Kids!

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When your child grows - so does their immune system!

Not surprisingly, their immunity is impacted by many of the same factors that influence our adult immune systems. You have probably heard that kids are supposed to play, get dirty, and be exposed to germs throughout their development. Remember, germs are not the enemy!

As a parent, you would do anything to protect your child from sickness because it is so hard to see them uncomfortable. But being afraid of germs…

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Navigating Mental Health Naturally

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What are your emotions telling you about your life and your body?

When your emotions arise - how do you respond? Mental health is becoming more discussed and destigmatized. Chinese Medicine is a profound system that considers the emotional, mental, and spiritual components of the whole person when diagnosing and treating. Chinese medicine looks at the quality of the emotions and ties them to both nature and the human.

Did you know that anger is associated with the spring? It …

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