A year ago, I was driving 'over the bridge' from the south into Grand Junction, Colorado, and saw a billboard raising awareness about dysautonomia.  It did not say it was sponsored by any local organization, and I believe it maybe was paid for by Dysautonomia International, but I of course did not have long to look away from the road to satisfy my curiousity about who was raising awareness in my valley of western Colorado about dysautonomia.   read more »

I was one of the first people Dr. John Cantanzaro added to his new group, which appears to have been created on May 3, 2016.  As of my creating this topic on Memorial Day 2016, the end of May, there are 2,849 other people, or profiles I should say, in the group.  I'm going to take this topic in a direction of revealing how I go about 'looking into someone'.  

Naturally, there's their website.  This is what is said at his:   read more »

I keep finding books as time goes on that are out NEW and I think are fabulous. I hear about them because of the publicity stunts they do to get people hearing about the book and people buying them. The Mood Cure is far from new, but I was surprised after looking through it to see how long ago it was written; 2002!  How I found this book might be of interest and I think is a rather fun little 'story'. I don't think of myself as having a mood problem, similarly I didn't think of myself as having a sugar addiction ....  read more »

When YOU hear the words "behavioral health" (or 'problem'), "mental health" (or 'problem'), "psychiatric", "psychological", or any of the 'labels' that go along with it from organized medicine (ADD, ADHD, depression, mood disorder, personality disorder, etc.) what is your presumption about what has contributed to the lack of wellness in that individual or group of people?  And -- is it accurate today?  Are you holding onto a pre-conceived notion, past learning, and have not replaced old information with new?  read more »

I am pleased to see that there are a few innovative treatment facilities in the United States looking at the body, not just mind and spirit, when it comes to what causes addictions, and how to address them from a functional medicine perspective, looking for the underlying reasons and root causes and treating at 'that level'. It makes sense that there are physiological causes -- what those are might suprise you, as well as how many people are affected, who might not be identified as 'addicts'.  read more »

St. Patrick's Day was yesterday and I had to chuckle at the information I was watching on television from the author of the current bestselling book Grain Brain, David Perlmutter, MD. His message strongly reinforces everything we've had for the five years since Lumigrate launched in March of 2009, and carries it orders of magnitude further in terms of focusing on things related to the brain and grains that have gluten in them. AND things that drive the blood sugar up and down and around. Ever heard of 'glycemic index'?  read more »

Silent Diseases and Mood Disorders

By Jurriaan Plesman, BA (PSYCH), Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr -- (Please find link and credits at bottom)  read more »