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Our Top 3 Supplements For Anxiety

Feeling anxious this year? Dr. Russell shares her top 3 supplements for anxiety in the first of her 4 part series on tools for anxiety. She covers: -the benefits of omega 3s on anxiety (what the research says) -magnesium for anxiety and her favorite form to use -a lesser known B vitamin that can help reduce anxiety and bring you some much needed calm References-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4540034/-https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0889159111004685-https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/hup.2369-Henrotte JG. Type A behavior and magnesium metabolism. Magnesium 1986; 5: 201-210.

October 19, 2020 No Comments

Mental Health

Mental Health Tools For Surviving The Coronavirus

Our lives have drastically changed over the past few years. I know I had more than one conversation with patients a short time ago, encouraging them to not worry too much about things. While I still stand by the not getting caught up in the waves of panic that are fueled by social media and the news, times have definitely changed. With continuously empty grocery store shelves, businesses closing, strict physical distancing recommendations, and now having a mandated stay-at-home directive

April 20, 2020 No Comments

Nutrition

Removing The Confusion About Nutrition And Popular Diets

It’s that time again, when we feel excited at the prospect of a new year. It’s a chance to “do it right” and reset so you can now accomplish your goals. Inevitably, a lot of those new year’s resolutions are related to health, with a majority of those health-related goals focusing on dieting and losing weight. Over the years, I’ve become aware of how much confusion there is around basic nutrition concepts. Unfortunately the food pyramid is nonsense and has

January 13, 2020 No Comments

Hormones

Flow No More: Our Top 4 Tips For Fibroids

As women, we spend a lot of time learning about what it’s like when your period starts, but we rarely spend time discussing what it’s like when it ends. When your period starts, it’s like flipping on a light switch. One day, it’s off, then the next day, it’s there. When it ends, it is not like the “on” switch just turns “off”. It’s more like a dimmer switch on your ovaries. For one or two months, it may be

September 13, 2019 5 Comments

Hormones

Geriatric Pregnancy: Is It A Real Concern Or Just An Antiquated Idea?

As I have honed my practice over the years to focus on women’s health and hormone balance, naturally, infertility has been a growing part of my practice. However, fertility is also of personal interest to me. I am a few months away from officially being in my mid-thirties and want to have children of my own someday. While this was not part of my plan to wait this long, completing medical school and growing my practice were goals I wanted

March 8, 2019 No Comments

Women's Health

Women, Beware Of Your Doctors

It saddens me that the majority of my practice are patients that have come to me as a last resort. While I would love to promote overall wellness and prevention of disease, the reality is, most people come in after they’ve seen multiple specialists and still don’t have the answers they are looking for. The longer I’ve been in practice, the more certain I am of the existence of a deadly gender bias against women in medicine. The countless

November 12, 2018 1 Comment

Immune Health

Surviving Cold And Flu Season: Natural Ways To Boost Your Immune System

With kids back in school and summer vacations a not-so-distant memory, it’s time to start thinking about sweater weather, pumpkin spice mania, and cold and flus. While cold and flu season officially starts in October, I’ve already had some patients and friends catching colds and having to miss work or school. It may be hard to believe after an unusually wet and gloomy summer but cold and flu season is approaching fast. This makes now a great time to start boosting

September 11, 2018 No Comments

Digestive Health

The Hidden Effects Of Stress

Now that we understand the role hormones play in the stress response and their general impacts on different parts of our body, it’s important to understand the sneaky ways stress can manifest. Since hormones, by their definition, travel throughout the blood, they can reach every organ, tissue, or system. In fact, almost every cell in your body is only six cells away or less from a supply of blood. In other words, that’s like having a Starbucks every six houses. Because of

July 16, 2018 No Comments

Mental Health

Are Your Hormones Stressing You Out: The Link Between Stress and Hormone Imbalance

“My calendar has been overbooked for weeks. I have absolutely no time.” “I work 16 hour days and weekends. Gotta hustle.” These phrases are commonplace in our stressed-out culture. In fact, stress has quickly become an epidemic, with three out of four Americans citing stress as causing physical or psychological symptoms. It’s pervasive in our culture and if you aren’t stressed, you must not be doing enough. We all know that stress can interrupt our sleep, make us more irritable,

May 18, 2018 No Comments

Mental Health

Stress: Do You Have More Control Than You Realize?

Do you feel like you struggle with the pressures and demands of work and life? If so, you’re not alone. According to a 2014 American Psychological Association report, 77% of Americans regularly experience physical symptoms caused by stress. The most common symptoms cited were fatigue, headache, irritability, and anger. And it’s not getting better…almost half of Americans feel like their levels of stress has increased over the past five years. What Is Stress? Stress is your body’s way of responding

April 2, 2018 2 Comments

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