...a place where you can discover and apply the tools of integrative health. We are a consultative medical clinic and "home" providing a combination of conventional and integrative approaches to health, aging and disease.

We focus on the application of "upstream principles" that are all too often excluded from our medical care. These include the identification of our genetic strengths and weaknesses, biological functions, and nutritional needs that form a unique set of variables that are highly specific. If addressed appropriately, we feel that functional capacity can be optimized, disease activity curtailed, and true prevention practiced.  There is nothing "experimental or investigational" about what we do.  Necessary time and focus (things you rarely get in your local insurance company-managed care factory) are essential elements in what we do.

Top stories this week...see links below

H1N1 Influenza...what you need to know

Has your doctor measured your vitamin K lately?

The information that insurers are not giving you...how to take vitamin D, what really works for treatment, what other nutrients do you need, how homeopathy helped millions survive the 1918 pandemic, and why selenium is such a critical nutrient.

There is very little evidence that statins do anything to prevent the calcium deposits in coronary arteries.  It's all about your vitamin K status and inflammation...

A 4% risk of necrosis of the jaw bone is unacceptably high.  And now the FDA is concerned that it causes esophageal cancer.   Did your doctor warn you about this before prescribing it?

We often hear about the advantages of vegetarianism, and there is indeed some wisdom in consuming more vegetables.  But the consumption of animal fats and protein does not seems to be associated with colon cancer as many claim.  It's a little more complicated than that.

For years the term "leaky gut" has been treated derisively by conventional medicine.  Now we find out it is serious and possibly cuased by widely used drugs...