Choosing the best multivitamin Understanding the essential nutrients your body needs There’s a danger to you in the way nutritional supplements are marketed. Most of those marketers would have you believe there’s a different product for every problem — the antioxidant vitamin, the vitamin B-complex, mood boosters, energy vitamins, herbal nutritional supplements — the list of vitamins and herbs goes on and on. Maybe each one of those supplements does have its own role. But too many women come to us taking dozens of supplements and herbs, sometimes in extreme doses, and that concerns us. The interaction of so many supplements is unknown. And this approach ignores the basic wisdom of your body: your body will naturally seek to balance itself if you give it the right foundation of nutritional support. That’s why we make sure every patient at our practice is on a sound foundation of a pharmaceutical-grade multivitamin, multi-mineral, and essential fatty acids (EFA’s). (more...)

The metabolism’s first priority is to feed the brain. The brain needs a steady stream of glucose to perform, and when that stream is disrupted the body responds with a multitude of coping mechanisms, like flooding the pathways with cortisol and adrenaline. Designed to satiate the brain during short periods of stress, these emergency measures were never intended to stay switched on. Unfortunately, that is exactly what’s happening in many women — leading to chronic depletion in certain areas, food addiction, depression, and weight gain. (more...)

Without a doubt, eating well and having optimal nutrition is the number-one strategy for creating lifelong health, regardless of your starting point. You may be highly conscientious and diligent about your diet, or you may be in despair about your nutrition and miles from reaching your goal. Or, you may be “good” one day then wobble or fall down the next. Whatever the case, this section of our site is all about how to make nutrition and eating well the cornerstone to your health foundation. As much as my patients know they should eat well, the concern that looms largest for them is their weight. Whatever their age and station, most women care deeply about what they look like. It is unfortunate, but in the minds of many, their figure is not their friend! As a consequence, women “do battle” with their weight, adopting any number of extreme and unhealthy patterns over the course of their lifetime to keep things “in check.” (more...)