Posts Tagged ‘functional medicine’

  In the realm of mental health, men have long been conditioned to remain stoic, to suppress emotions, and to soldier on regardless of inner turmoil. The societal expectation of masculinity often dictates that vulnerability is weakness, leading many men to suffer silently rather than seek help. However, the reality is that mental health knows…

Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth (SIBO) is a condition that occurs when there is an excessive amount of bacteria in the small intestine, leading to various gastrointestinal symptoms. Although it is a relatively common condition, it is often overlooked or misdiagnosed due to its nonspecific symptoms. In this blog, we will explore SIBO, its causes, symptoms,…

Precision medicine is a relatively new approach to healthcare that aims to provide tailored medical treatments to individual patients based on their specific genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors. It is a rapidly developing field that holds great promise for improving patient outcomes, reducing healthcare costs, and advancing our understanding of disease.  At its core, precision…

Hormones affect everything, from blood sugar to blood pressure, growth/fertility, sex drive, metabolism, and even sleep. Their influence goes as far as changing the way we think and act day to day. At least 80% of us will struggle with a hormone problem in our lifetime, significant enough to cause disruption in our life quality,…

Our guts are host to millions of bacteria of multiple different species and functions. In fact, there are so many bacteria in our gut that they outnumber the amount of cells in our body. This may sound a bit unsavory, especially when we are brought up believing that bacteria equals disease, but the bacteria in…

Summer eating is full of poolside popsicles, juice boxes, barbeque cookouts, easy snacks for road trips and dining out while on vacation. With back to school is just around the corner, it is a perfect opportunity to recalibrate your child’s nutritional habits to help them feel good and perform well at school. The Committee on…

At Empowered Health, we offer many precision medicine advanced testing tools that include a deeper awareness to be able to make the most educated medical decisions for the persons’ individual health journey. One advanced test that we offer is the cortisol awakening response test (CAR). Cortisol levels naturally begin to rise by an average of…

We have all heard of cholesterol. What exactly is cholesterol and the different types? How do we check for problems with cholesterol? At what age should we be screening for problems with cholesterol? How do we manage high cholesterol from lifestyle interventions? These are all questions that will be discussed in this article. Heart disease is the #1 killer in the United States and is…

Time in nature has reduced drastically as humanity has moved to more urban locations. It is believed that approximately 83% of people living in the United States currently live in an urban area, up from 64% in 1950 (1). Research is beginning to show that this separation from nature may be a contributing factor towards…

What is Functional Medicine?  Functional medicine is a branch of holistic or integrative medicine that looks for the root cause of chronic disease or conditions. It focuses on functional systems-based rather than organ-based and is concerned with conditions versus diseases.  The functional laboratory testing often looks deeper than the routine tests, even to the cellular…