Carolina Holistic Medicine | Functional & Alternative Medicine | Charleston, SC
An adaptogen herb in the nightshade family of plants Withania somnifera (AKA, Ashwagandha, Indian Ginseng, and winter cherry to name a few) has been used in Ayervedic medicine for hundreds of years. The plant, roots, seeds, leaves and fruit, which is classified a berry, contain alkaloids, flavonoids and steroidal lactones. Most notably a substance called […]
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Ever get stuck in a rut. Cannot lose weight and constantly worried about it. It is all consuming and every time you pass in front of a mirror you get frustrated with the way you look. Disappointed with the rapid weight loss centers? Heck that only works for the beach season then all that weight
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I am going to write about two of my least favorite drug classes. They are the Statins and the Proton Pump Inhibitors. In my entire practice (clinics serving patients in the Myrtle Beach & Charleston, SC area) I have maybe five (5) patients total on a statin and maybe even less on a PPI. Only
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Priority Health Academy is awarding Dr. McCullough the 2021 “Humanitarian Physician of the Year Award” Peter A. McCullough, MD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FASN, FNKF, FNLA, FCRSA Chief Medical Advisor, Truth for Health Foundation President, Cardiorenal Society of America Editor-in-Chief, Reviews in Cardiovascular Medicine Senior Associate Editor, American Journal of Cardiology Dr. McCullough is an internist,
Apollo-Wave extracorporeal shockwave therapy Low-energy extracorporeal shockwave therapy known as soft wave is an intervention used in medicine to assist in the healing of injured and inflamed tissues with tissue regenerative technology. The technology from a company in Germany that has spearheaded decades long research on this therapy in lithotripsy devices for gallstones and
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Healing Peptides Peptides are short chains of amino acids. Short enough that they don’t take on a three-dimensional configuration. They are essentially linear compounds. Longer chains of amino acids or longer peptides turn in on themselves into a 3-D structure and being much longer than linear peptides we refer to them as proteins. One
Post-Acute Sequelae SARS-CoV-2 (Long COVID) JP Saleeby, MD Post-Acute Sequelae SARS-CoV-2 (PASC) AKA Long-COVID, Post-COVID syndrome, Long-Haulers. Call it what you will this is a very challenging and devastating condition. If recovery from an acute episode of COVID-19 is not bad enough for some people, there are those that can face a longer protracted
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Peptides and Weight Loss In recent years there has been an interest in the use of peptides in anti-aging and longevity medicine. Peptides are by definition a string of amino acids no longer than 50 base pairs in length. At this relatively short string of amino acids, they will maintain a stereochemistry of a
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Is all Fat the same? We have two types of fat. White fat and brown fat. Brown fat breaks down blood sugar (glucose) and fat molecules to create heat and help maintain body temperature. Cold temperatures activate brown fat, which leads to various metabolic changes in the body. Most of our fat, however, is white fat, which stores extra energy.
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John Murphy, for MDLinx | with comments/edits by Dr. Saleeby, MD Intuitive eating sounds so simple that it’s hard to believe it can help you maintain a healthy weight: Eat what you want, but only when you feel hungry, and stop eating when you are no longer hungry (not when you are full). A subtle but rather
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