Articles Featuring All Things Allergy, Autoimmunity, & Anti-inflammatory Living

One thing I get asked about A LOT from patients and my medical trainees (med students, residents, and fellows) is about the role of testing in the role of diagnosing allergies, autoimmunity, and other invisible illnesses. 

Testing can take several different forms from blood work to imaging studies ...

In case you missed the last blog, this is the second blog in a series digging into my take on some of the functional medicine-type approaches. Click here to read it. 

In the first blog, I laid out my biases and disclosures.

Why is this important?

Because we are all human. Humans are biased.

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I had someone reach out asking for my thoughts and recommendations on a proposed treatment course by their functional medicine doc.  It is not uncommon that this happens in my clinical practice too. Perhaps, it's a bit of their inner knowing, that gut feeling, telling them to get a second (or third)...

I talk a lot about practicing in an academic medical setting but have not spent much time explaining what that actually means…

What exactly is academic medicine? 

This area of medicine combines teaching, research and treating patients. It typically occurs at centers that are associated with a m...