After "hitting a wall" in treating patients with mainstream allopathic medicine, Dr. LePine discovered the benefits and efficacy of Integrative Functional Medicine to create health and address chronic conditions. Dr. LePine worked for 15 years as a physician at Canyon Ranch. Dr. LePine’s focus is to help his patients achieve optimal health and vitality by restoring the natural balance to both the mind and body.
Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease of the skin that predominantly involves scaling and inflammation. Aside from its physical manifestations, psoriasis can also result in debilitating psychological effects for those suffering with it. While conventional medicine typically treats psoriasis from the outside in, the reality is that it is an issue that comes from within, and should be treated from the inside out.
Millions of people suffer from irritable bowel syndrome (IBS). These people struggle with miserable, often disabling symptoms like bloating, cramps, diarrhea, constipation, and pain.
Scientists led by Eran Segal and Eran Elinav at the Weizmann Institute of Science find that, surprisingly, everyone responds to the same foods quite different because of their unique gut bacteria makeup. Good news for some people: ice cream could be healthier than sushi!
Oral health is connected to full-body health in myriad ways. In fact, conditions ranging from obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, and even dementia are all directly connected to poor oral health.
Many of us have experienced an inability to sustain our train of thought, difficulty focusing, the feeling like you’re living in a daze, and other types of brain fog. So what causes brain fog? The key insight is that your brain is not just some object sitting on the top of your shoulders. Your brain is an organ that’s connected to everything else happening in your body. And fixing your brain starts with fixing your body. When it comes to brain fog, that usually means attending to your gut health.
My favorite topic as a Functional Medicine doctor is the gut microbiome as it relates to the “gut-brain-immune axis.” There are so many angles we need to look when it comes to gut health and it is through the lens of the gut microbiome that we in turn can gather lots of information which affect the health of the rest of our body.