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What blood tests can explain why I'm tired?
A handful of inexpensive blood markers explain a large share of everyday exhaustion: a thyroid panel, ferritin and iron studies…
Read ArticleTesting & LabsCan low ferritin make me tired even without anemia?
Yes. Ferritin is your body's iron savings account, and it runs low long before hemoglobin falls into anemia. Because iron is re…
Read ArticleNutritionWhy do I crash every afternoon?
A 2–4 PM slump that demands caffeine or sugar is usually a blood-sugar story: a fast-carbohydrate lunch spikes glucose, insulin…
Read ArticleFoundationsWhat is brain fog, exactly?
Brain fog isn't a diagnosis — it's a symptom cluster: sluggish thinking, word-finding trouble, poor short-term memory, and a se…
Read ArticleNutritionCan what I eat cause brain fog?
Yes, through at least three routes: blood-sugar swings after refined-carb meals (the post-lunch fog), individual food sensitivi…
Read ArticleHormonesIs my thyroid causing my brain fog?
It might be — cognitive slowing is one of the classic, well-documented symptoms of an underactive thyroid, because thyroid horm…
Read ArticleTesting & LabsWhat labs detect a thyroid problem — is TSH enough?
TSH alone is a screen, not an answer. A complete evaluation adds free T4 (the hormone your thyroid ships), free T3 (the active…
Read ArticleHormonesWhat is Hashimoto's, and could I have it?
Hashimoto's thyroiditis is an autoimmune condition in which the immune system attacks the thyroid gland, gradually reducing its…
Read ArticleHormonesWhat are the signs of a hormone imbalance?
Hormones are the body's messaging system, so imbalance rarely announces itself with one clean symptom — it shows up as patterns…
Read ArticleHormonesWhat does cortisol actually do — and what happens when stress never stops?
Cortisol is your built-in emergency system: it mobilizes fuel, sharpens attention, and suppresses lower-priority work like dige…
Read ArticleGut HealthWhy am I bloated all the time?
Persistent bloating usually traces to one of a few root patterns: how and what you eat (speed, portion, and fermentable carbohy…
Read ArticleGut HealthWhat's the difference between a food allergy and a food sensitivity?
A food allergy is a fast, immune-system (IgE) reaction that can be dangerous — hives, swelling, or anaphylaxis within minutes —…
Read ArticleNutritionHow does an elimination diet actually work?
An elimination diet is a structured experiment, not a permanent restriction: you remove a short list of common trigger foods fo…
Read ArticleNutritionHow do I keep a food and symptom journal that's actually useful?
A useful food-and-symptom journal captures four things for two weeks: what you ate and when, your symptoms and their timing and…
Read ArticleGut HealthHow is gut health connected to autoimmune disease?
The majority of the immune system lives in and around the gut, so digestive health and immune behavior are deeply linked. Resea…
Read ArticleFoundationsWhat is functional medicine, and how is it different?
Functional medicine is an approach that asks why a problem is happening — looking at patterns and systems across the whole body…
Read ArticleTesting & LabsWhat's the difference between functional and conventional lab ranges?
Conventional 'reference ranges' are built to flag disease — they're wide, statistically derived from a lab's tested population,…
Read ArticleNutritionDo supplements actually work — or am I wasting money?
Supplements can genuinely help when they correct a measured deficiency or address a specific, evidence-supported need — and the…
Read ArticleTesting & LabsWhat is insulin resistance, and how is it detected early?
Insulin resistance is when cells respond sluggishly to insulin, so the body makes more of it to keep blood sugar in line. It ca…
Read ArticleNutritionWhat are the signs my blood sugar is on a rollercoaster?
Blood-sugar swings feel like a daily rollercoaster: energy highs after eating followed by crashes, shakiness or irritability wh…
Read ArticleFoundationsWhat is chronic inflammation, and can a blood test find it?
Acute inflammation is healthy short-term healing; chronic inflammation is that same response stuck 'on' at a low level for mont…
Read ArticleHormonesWhy won't my weight budge, even when I do everything right?
When careful eating and regular exercise stop moving the scale, the missing piece is often metabolic or hormonal: an underactiv…
Read ArticleLifestyle & SleepWhy can't I sleep — even when I'm exhausted?
Being wired-but-tired usually points to a rhythm problem, not a lack of tiredness: an over-revved stress response (cortisol hig…
Read ArticleLifestyle & SleepCan poor sleep really make me gain weight?
Yes — and it's not about willpower. Short or poor sleep shifts the hunger hormones (more ghrelin, less leptin), raises cravings…
Read ArticleWomen's HealthWhy are thyroid and hormone issues so common in women?
Women develop thyroid and autoimmune thyroid conditions several times more often than men, and their symptoms frequently overla…
Read ArticleHealthy AgingWhat can I actually change about how I age?
You can't change your birthday, but a large share of how you age is driven by modifiable factors: blood-sugar control, inflamma…
Read ArticleFoundationsWhy do my seasonal allergies keep getting worse?
Allergy symptoms are an immune overreaction to harmless triggers like pollen — but how intensely you react is shaped by modifia…
Read ArticleFoundationsWhy do I catch every cold that goes around?
Getting sick often can reflect ordinary high exposure (kids, classrooms, travel), but persistent susceptibility can also track…
Read ArticleFoundationsHow can functional medicine support me if I have an autoimmune condition?
If you have an autoimmune condition, functional medicine works alongside your specialist — never instead of them — by focusing…
Read ArticleNutritionWhat does 'anti-inflammatory eating' actually mean?
Anti-inflammatory eating isn't a branded diet or a list of miracle foods — it's a pattern: mostly whole foods, plenty of vegeta…
Read ArticleWomen's HealthWhat's happening to my body in perimenopause?
Perimenopause is the transition of several years before menopause when reproductive hormones fluctuate, bringing irregular cycl…
Read ArticleGut HealthCan heartburn actually be caused by too little stomach acid?
Counterintuitively, some reflux and indigestion is linked to insufficient — not excess — stomach acid, because low acid slows d…
Read ArticleGut HealthIs 'leaky gut' real?
Increased intestinal permeability — the science behind the popular term 'leaky gut' — is a real, measurable phenomenon that res…
Read ArticleTesting & LabsWhy does the scale barely move when I feel like I'm making progress?
The bathroom scale measures total weight — it can't tell muscle from fat from water. So you can lose fat and gain muscle (real…
Read ArticleSpine & PainWhat can be done about neck pain and constant headaches?
Neck pain and headaches are among the most common problems chiropractors see — and among the most responsive to care. The pract…
Read ArticleSpine & PainWhy does my back pain keep coming back?
Because most treatment chases the painful muscle instead of the dysfunctional one. The practice's view — the foundation of appl…
Read ArticleLifestyle & SleepWhat are the three kinds of stress — and which one is wearing you down?
The practice teaches that the body encounters three distinct stresses — structural, chemical, and mental — and almost everyone…
Read ArticleLifestyle & SleepWhy isn't my exercise program working?
Usually for one of two reasons the practice sees constantly: you started without knowing your chemical baseline (blood work, no…
Read ArticleNutritionHow much does what I eat actually matter?
More than almost anything else you control. Food plays a role in every biological process in the body, and diet quality is a ce…
Read ArticleTesting & LabsWhat does a functional medicine physical exam include?
Everything a conventional physical checks — height, weight, skin, eyes, ears, heart, abdomen, nervous system, urine, blood — pl…
Read ArticleWomen's HealthCan a natural, whole-body approach support fertility?
One in six couples has difficulty conceiving, and the practice has long offered a natural, non-toxic layer of support alongside…
Read ArticleGut HealthCould dairy be behind my symptoms — even if I'm not lactose intolerant?
Possibly — because dairy reactions are usually a protein story, not a lactose story. Most people who react to dairy are respond…
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Preparing Your Immune System for North Texas Cedar Fever Season
Don't wait until December to fight winter allergies. Discover how a proactive functional medicine approach in mid-fall can help you build systemic resilience be
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When Conventional Doctors Can't Find the Problem: Identifying Hidden Gut Infections Like Candida
Feeling chronically exhausted despite perfectly normal lab results is incredibly frustrating. See why standard tests miss underlying dysbiosis and how functiona
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Alternative Medicine to Help Your Body Heal Itself
Our health is our most important attribute. Without it, we can’t do much else in life. Staying healthy can be a challenge and we can’t predict or control if or
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Why Lack of Sleep May Cause Weight Gain
If you’re trying to maintain a healthy weight, counting sheep is just as important as counting carbs or weight repetitions at the gym. Because, while physical a
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Living with Autism – A Functional Medicine Approach
The typical approach to dealing with any ailment is to label it. Once it’s labeled, the disease and its treatment can be conveniently categorized and not given
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Allysa
“I started seeing Dr. Ozzie because of some serious sports injuries that occurred. I am a soccer player and injured my hamstring, knee, and broke my wrist
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Suzanne
“I have been seeing Dr. Ozzie for 3 years, When I first came to his office I was exhausted and depressed from feeling so bad for so long. I had been to my
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Magda
“My initial appointment revealed a dairy and oat allergy, as well as a bacterial infection which explained my inflammation, low energy, bloated feeling, j
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Davis
When Davis was 6-months-old, he began to have chronic ear infections. He had two tube surgeries and removed adenoids before he was 2-years-old. Before seeing Dr
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Crystal
I came to see Dr. Ozzie seven months ago for alternative treatment of my stomach pain (Crohn’s) and shoulder pain. After a blood test and adrenal test, he was a
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Gracie
Throughout my entire pregnancy, I saw Dr. Ozzie once a week for nutritional therapy and chiropractic adjustments. I carried full term and delivered my baby at h
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Susan
Although I have celiac, my stomach was doing well up until about 8 mounths ago on the gluten free diet. I don’t know what triggered the change but I wasn’t dige
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Why Supplements Are Important
Did you take your vitamins today? Do you know if you’re taking the ones that your body needs? Nearly half of Americans are taking vitamins and supplements on a
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Blood Work Analysis – A Functional Medicine Approach
Annual blood work exams are an important part of a physical exam. Blood tests go a long way to prevent disease and offer insight into functional imbalance. Exte
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Physical Exam – A Functional Medicine Approach
Annual physical exams generally start at birth with wellness visits throughout childhood. Once a person reaches adulthood, however, they may or may not follow-u
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Autoimmune Disease – A Functional Medicine Approach
Autoimmune disease occurs when inflammation causes the body’s immune system to attack a healthy system or tissues by mistake. These diseases are the most preval
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Top Ten Anti-Aging Factors
At the Functional Medicine Center, we believe that once the underlying factors causing your chronic health problems are addressed, then you will be able to achi
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Menopause – A Functional Medicine Approach
“Menopause” can be an ugly word for some women for a number of reasons. Menopause typically occurs around 50 years of age, a time when most women are confident
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Breast Cancer – Women’s Health Issues
Breast cancer are two words that send fear through the hearts of most women today. How do we stop this fear? First, we need to understand the processes that lea
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Weight Loss – Women’s Health Issue
One of the biggest health concerns in America today is the obesity epidemic that is affecting young and old people alike. America is one of the unhealthiest nat
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Premenstrual Syndrome – Women’s Health Issues
Tired of yelling at your family every month? Having increased food binges, depression during menstruation? Suffering from headaches, back pain, breast tendernes
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Symptoms of Thyroid Disorders
Tired of worrying about the negative side effects of long-term medication? Tired of taking thyroid medication for the rest of your life? What if there’s a
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Vaccinations – Children’s Health Issues
Vaccines are an extremely sensitive topic – do we immunize our children? If so, when is the best time? Please keep in mind as you read through this article, the
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Obesity – Children’s Health Issues
Childhood obesity has become increasingly prevalent in our nation today. Dysfunction or disease, which obesity has become, starts and ends with stress. Obesity
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Infertility – A Functional Medicine Approach
Infertility treatments not an option? Infertility treatments not working? Looking for a more natural way to get pregnant? Nothing’s wrong with you, but yo
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Ear, Nose & Throat Infections – Children’s Health Issues
Today, it has become “normal” that children spend most of their youth being sick with a runny nose, coughing or allergies. Parents have the mindset that it is n
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Depression – Children’s Health Issues
More children are depressed today and are on serious medication or in a therapy because of it. Masking this disease and living with it forever is not the only o
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Symptoms of Dairy Allergies
Dairy allergies are one of the most common food allergies found. Many patients with dairy allergies tend to have, or have a predisposition to the following: hea
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Asthma – A Functional Medicine Approach
Functional medicine practitioners realize asthma attacks can be very stressful and a debilitating children's health issue. Asthma is a condition that can often
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ADD/ADHD – A Functional Medicine Approach
ADD/ADHD has become far too common in children today. The temporary “cure” for ADD/ADHD is basically speed for kids. Ritalin and Adderall, the most popularly pr
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What Causes Poor Digestion and Heartburn
In Functional Medicine digestion is one of the most important body functions that needs to be working correctly. Without proper digestion you can’t absorb the n
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Hormones – Modifiable Factors of Aging
The most important way to balance hormones which is a modifiable factor of aging is to balance everything else. Hormones are very delicate by nature. For exampl
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What are Food Sensitivities?
Food sensitivities are very common in our society, although most people don’t know if they have any. One of the best ways to discover your food sensitivities is
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Immune Function – Modifiable Factors of Aging
Immune function is very important to sustain life. If your immune system is set too high, you may develop allergies or an autoimmune disorder such as lupus, rhe
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What Are the Signs of Too Much Stress?
Stress is one of the major causes of women’s health issues today. Women are more stressed out than the human body can handle. Being a mother, a wife, a professi
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3 Keys to Stress
What a hot topic – who isn’t stressed these days? There are three main stresses that the body encounters – structural, chemical and mental. Everyone
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Neck Pain and Headaches
Neck pain and headaches are among the most common and most rewarding things chiropractors treat. Any type of pain or headache can be a sign of a toxicity. Anoth
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Exercise and Fitness
One of the biggest things that I have noticed about exercise and fitness over the last 10 years is what little people know about their current health status bef
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Diet and Nutrition
Understanding the crossroads of diet and disease, and the role of nutrition in both the creation and elimination of disease, is both practical and instructing.
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Back Pain and Sciatica
Any type of joint problem is caused by muscle dysfunction. Muscles move bones not the other way around. It is most important to diagnose the weak or inhibited m
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Different Causes of Stress
What is Stress? What exactly is stress? Stress can come in many forms. It could be emotional stress, chemical stress (toxicity), electromagnetic stress, physica
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Impaired Mitochondria Function – Modifiable Factors of Aging
Nineteen percent of men report that they are tired and 30 percent of women report that they are tired. The mitochondria is the part of the cell that produces AT
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Chronic Stress – Modifiable Factors of Aging
What exactly is stress? Stress can come in many forms, it could be emotional stress, chemical stress (toxicity), electromagnetic stress, physical stress, or any
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Faulty Methylation – Modifiable Factors of Aging
Methlylation is what occurs when your body takes one substance and turns it into another, so it is detoxified and can be excreted from the body. Methylation is
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Chronic Inflammation
Chronic inflammation can be seen in many common diseases such as chronic pain conditions, arthritis, autoimmune disorders to name a few. There are three primary
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Detoxification – Modifiable Factors of Aging
According to the Journal of Clinical Chemistry 1996, the seven symptoms of chronic poisoning are fatigue, sleep disturbances, gastrointestinal distress, headach
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Diabetes and Insulin Resistance – Modifiable Factors of Aging
Poor blood sugar management, also known as dysglycemia or insulin resistance, is an epidemic problem in our society today. It is estimated that 25% (60 million
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What is Functional Medicine?
Functional medicine is personalized medicine that deals with prevention and underlying causes instead of symptoms for serious chronic disease. It is a science-b
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