Functional Medicine

Why is Stress Causing Weight Gain?

By Valencia Ray, M.D. / / Comments Off on Why is Stress Causing Weight Gain?

What is making us women overweight and sick is not simply an issue of ‘overeating’, or ‘the luck of the draw’ contrary to popular myth. It is stress and the four key stressors.

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Integration: The Root Source of Health and Well-Being

By Valencia Ray, M.D. / / Comments Off on Integration: The Root Source of Health and Well-Being

Rebalance. In Functional Medicine, there is a concept known as the 5 Pillars or 5 R’s to reverse gut dysfunction and to restore health. Rebalance is the last or 5th step, and though it is last, it is certainly not least. As a society, we are way out of balance. Using the symbol of the…

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What is Integrative or Functional Medicine and Why Should You Care?

By Valencia Ray, M.D. / / Comments Off on What is Integrative or Functional Medicine and Why Should You Care?

The type of healthcare you choose is going to be based upon what you believe about healing and health. If you want to learn how to reverse your symptoms and disease to heal your body and mind or at least put the disease process into remission and slow it down dramatically, you will have to…

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