by Jennifer Engels, MD | Nov 7, 2022 | Functional Nutrition, Information
We begin this article with a question: What do conditions like obesity, insulin resistance, diabetes, fatty liver disease, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, stroke, neurological disorders, and premature death all have in common? The answer is uric...
by Jennifer Engels, MD | Oct 10, 2022 | Information, News
As the years pass, it’s easy to fall into the mindset telling you that sports are only for the young, but nothing could be further from the truth. There are many low impact sports for older adults that have great health benefits, and before exploring some of those,...
by Jennifer Engels, MD | Sep 12, 2022 | Functional Medicine, Functional Nutrition, Information
Perhaps in reading articles about health issues, you’ve come across references to detoxification, also known simply as detox or cleansing. To be quite honest, there are a lot of products on the market today promising you something of a miracle improvement in your...
by Jennifer Engels, MD | May 19, 2022 | Functional Medicine, Functional Nutrition, In the Media, Information, News
Women dealing with weight gain, anxiety, lack of sleep and other woes related to the stress of the pandemic may not realize that the root cause may be a hormone imbalance. The stress of the COVID-19 pandemic took a toll on everyone, including women, who juggled work...
by Jennifer Engels, MD | May 16, 2022 | Functional Medicine, Information
When it comes to your body and fat, you may think fat is fat, but that’s not true. Our bodies produce two kinds of fat, subcutaneous fat and visceral fat, and there is a substantial difference between the two. Subcutaneous fat – This is the type of fat located...
by Jennifer Engels, MD | May 5, 2022 | Functional Nutrition, Information
First, the bad news. Age-related muscle loss – medically known as sarcopenia – affects us all. After age 30, you begin to lose muscle mass at the rate of about three to eight percent per decade, which equates to losing about five to seven pounds of muscle tissue each...
