Carolina Holistic Medicine | Functional & Alternative Medicine | Charleston, SC
Polypharmacy, the taking of too many medications, is a growing problem in the United States and some other industrialized countries. However, Americans are by far more overmedicated than other nations utilizing almost 95% of the world prescriptive medications produced. This problem affects the elderly especially. In fact, a full 35.8% of older adult Americans take …
Polypharmacy: Dangers for Americans young and old. Read More »
If you are a senior living alone or with an aging spouse, you may be giving some thought to aging in place. Aging in place means making adjustments to your home and life for accessibility and safety as you grow older. If you’re interested in accessibility around your home, here’s where to start. Reduce Trip …
So, there are a lot of women coming forward who have had breast augmentation (implants) and now suffer an assortment of unexplained illnesses. It has been referred to in the lay population as Breast Implant Illness. While many in the mainstream scientific community downplay the symptoms and believe it to either not exist at all …
Functional Medicine is the new paradigm of medicine moving away from disease chasing to that of root cause identification. It is also a true preventive medicine strategy. While other forms of medicine give lip service to prevention in all actuality the large conventional medical-industrial complex which is comprised of very large (and even small) hospital …
