Whole Medicine Blog

Moving Through

Moving Through

What seems like a long time ago, I was teaching in a medical school course that introduced medical students to different philosophies of healing. A person I later got to know and become friends with, a medicine man in the Cherokee tradition named Hawk Littlejohn, gave...

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Is Your Sunscreen Doing More Harm Than Good?

Did you know that skin cancer is the most common cancer in the US? In fact, the number of Americans diagnosed with skin cancer is higher than the number diagnosed with all other cancers combined and the rates continue to rise. Research has shown that sun exposure is...

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It’s my fault

It’s my fault

As I work with adults who experienced childhood trauma, I’ve increasingly become aware of a child’s belief, deep down inside many of these folks, that they are the cause of their own unhappiness.  The chronic symptoms that have brought them to see me reflect how this...

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The Gym

The Gym

I can save you money!! And no, it is not snake oil. I’m old and pretty active. I play racquetball several times a week, I garden and haul big, 50 pound bags of “stuff" around and dig and bend over and weed and Kathleen makes sure my vegetable intake is pretty good. I...

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First Year Medical Student

First Year Medical Student

I was a first-year medical student and like my classmates, vulnerable to developing whatever disease we were studying. Or at least compulsively worrying that I was in the early stages of its development. This week we had learned about anterior compartment syndrome....

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The Factory

Functional Medicine: thinking of your body as a factory In our holistic medical practice we are increasingly looking into metabolic disturbances that often have far reaching and unpredictable consequences on health and wellbeing. Given increasingly sophisticated...

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Nate’s Supplement Notes

It’s spring cleaning time.  While you’re at it don’t forget to take a look at your dietary supplements! It may be time to upgrade your supplement regimen to include more advanced and absorbable formulations of your old favorites, or find more convenient, trustworthy,...

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The Hole

Those of us who are in the recovery community often hear about “the hole”. It is the term used to describe a feeling associated with an unfulfilled need, or an uncomfortable emptiness that some people experience that they are driven to try and fill. The discomfort...

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Intention

Intention

Albert Einstein, that master of the underpinnings of physical life, observed that the significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. Along that line, all of us who have been through the School of Sesame...

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Taking Aim

Taking Aim

I have two dogs who insist on daily workouts of ball fetching. My childhood athletic reach never included ball games, and as a result, I never developed much of a throwing arm. We live in a wooded place, and our ball workouts have often felt more like a game of...

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