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Paleo-Deficit Disorder: New Evidence

Worried it may be too late to learn about what a healthy gut microbiome looks like? I am.

That’s why studies like this one entitled Subsistence strategies in traditional societies...

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Do 5 Million Americans Really Have Bipolar Disorder?

“I have Bipolar disorder”

…say 5.7 million Americans.

These patients have been labeled, categorized, and offered an understanding of themselves as diseased, sick, and permanently...

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Are You Ready for Personal Transformation?

About a year into our journey together, having weaned off of two psychiatric meds, Sandra began to struggle with muscle aches. She had learned a tremendous amount about herself in the past year...

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David Perlmutter Interview

Here’s what two renegade doctors have to say about what depression is, what it isn’t, and how to reverse it.

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Eating Clean: Sunrise Nori Wraps with Spicy Tahini Drizzle

Text excerpted from EATING CLEAN, © 2016 by AMIE VALPONE. Reproduced by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Sunrise Nori Wraps with Spicy Tahini Drizzle

Serves 4

If...

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What You Don't Know About Depression

Adapted from A Mind of Your Own by Kelly Brogan, MD

If you’re diagnosed with depression, then chances are you can relate to any of the following: persistent distress, malaise,...

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Depression: It's Not All in Your Head

Psychiatry: A Very Special Specialty

Psychiatry, unlike other fields of medicine, is based on a highly subjective diagnostic system. Essentially you sit in the office with a physician, and you are...

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So Long Coffee, Hello Turmeric Latte

Turmeric "Coffee" Alternative

In the height of my residency training, I was up to 6 cups of coffee a day. Granted, at least once a week, I was awake for a forced-all-nighter, but I took any...

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Vaginal Swabs: Benefits for C-Section Babies

Game Change: Macro Implications of the Microbiome

We are almost a decade and a half into a new paradigm. One that decenters the gene-centric model of our flesh-robot existence. We are no longer...

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Dr. Frank Lipman Shares Anti-Aging Science

The following post was written by my friend and colleague, Dr. Frank Lipman. A New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Lipman has written 4 books: Total Renewal – 7 Key Steps to Resilience...

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Health Coach Ali Shapiro: How to Be the Boss of Your Health Choices

The following guest post was written by my friend, Ali Shapiro. I hope her thoughts empower you to take ownership of your health and take on a new “Boss” mindset. Enjoy!

Twelve years...

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The Continuum Concept: Realigning with Intuition

Sleep: Every Modern Parent’s Fantasy

I remember the feeling, the sheer desperation coursing through me as I woke up, as mothers do, anticipating her cry from the co-sleeper next to our bed. I...

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