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Iron Deficiency – How to Optimize Your Levels
Iron deficiency anemia remains a common worldwide disease despite being easy to diagnose, and easy to treat in most individuals. In many places this is due to limited access to food, but even in the United States where food is considered abundant, an estimated 10 million people have a diagnosis of iron deficiency. The real number is likely much higher when you consider how many adults and children do not get properly, or routinely screened. Why does low iron matter, and how much do you really need? Without iron,
NAD+ – Tiny Helper, Big Gains
If you recently looked into Vitamin IV therapies or spent time in a functional medicine clinic, you likely came across NAD+ services for energy, longevity and more. If you haven’t given it a try yet, it’s probably time. There’s a reason it’s gaining so much popularity: NAD+ may be small, but its effects are mighty! Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (see why we call it NAD+?) is a type of coenzyme, a powerful little molecule that helps out with the key chemical reactions that make up your metabolism. Want to build
Pain Relief, Steroid Free
Most of us associate “pain injections” with cortisone (steroid) shots or nerve blocks, common interventions that often work very well for acute pain. These allow physicians to quickly get painful swelling under control, and in some cases better confirm the source and location of the pain. But what happens when the injection fails, or the effect wears off? This is where alternative injections therapies shine, in the management of recurring and chronic pain syndromes. As mentioned above, sometimes the steroid injections and nerve blocks fail. Even when they succeed,