Achieving health isn't an easy task. Dr. Connie discusses her journey from sickness to health and what she did along the way.
Dr. Connie answers questions on what to eat to control Lupus symptoms, how to reduce swelling, and how acupuncture can help with pain.
Sarcopenia, which is age related muscle loss, can potentially be detrimental because muscle mass is essential for optimal health. Learn more about sarcopenia and how to lower your risk.
Throughout history, mushroom have been used as medicine to treat various diseases. Learn about the healing and disease reversing powers of various mushrooms!
Celery juice is all the rage these days! Are the claimed health benefits of drinking celery juice true? Listen as Dr. Connie explains how celery juice could play a part in reversing your symptoms or disease.
Everyone these days is talking about keto diets. Are they really beneficial, and if so, what are the benefits? Listen as Dr. Connie gives her take on the keto diet.
In this Lupus Q&A session, Dr. Connie answers questions regarding borage oil and it's effects on Lupus patients, alternative methods to treating Lupus, healing leaky gut, implications of triple arthrodesis foot surgery, and using curcumin to lower sed rate.
The organ most sensitive to toxic exposure in our air, food, and water happens to be the thyroid, which explains why about 25% of the world's population has thyroid problems.
Learn all about the 2 types of thyroid imbalance and how you can treat it.
There are many benefits to fasting. Yet fasting, in which you do not consume anything except water, can be very hard for most people. A new discovery known as a fasting mimicking diet allows you to eat real foods but experience the benefits of fasting.
Correct posture is essential for good health and provides numerous benefits to the body. Looking to transform your posture?
Another Q&A episode where Dr. Connie answers your questions concerning Lupus! This week's episode addresses questions on Sjogren's Syndrome, Getting a Diagnosis, Amino Acids
Naltrexone, which is typically used in large doses for opiate and alcohol addiction, has been proven to have many benefits in those with Lupus and other autoimmune diseases in small doses.
Conventional medical doctors today are overprescribing medications. 50-75% of medications are unnecessary and inappropriate.
Discover the implications these medications can have on your health and various alternatives you can take to treat an infection.
This week Dr. Connie discusses how to treat insomnia and hives and the implications of using Benlysta.
Most people are very cautious when it comes to sun exposure. We know too much time in the sun can increase the risk of premature aging and skin cancer.
But some sun exposure is necessary for Vitamin D synthesis, which is a vitamin most people are deficient in. Tune in as Dr. Connie discusses sun exposure and its effects on our health.
Many of you have symptoms all over the spectrum, from migraines, fatigue, gut discomfort, to high or low blood pressure and heart rate issues. It's hard to know what the root cause is.
In this episode Dr. Connie explains the connection between histamine intolerance-leaky gut-SIBO that contributes to symptoms of Lupus.
So the take home message? Start with the gut and start with the elimination diet.
In this week's Lupus Q&A, Dr. Connie answers lots of questions, including questions about the elimination diet, fatigue, hair loss, methotrexate, oils and herbals, and fibromyalgia.
Navigating the online space, we all know that there are so much of compounding information out there that is inherently contradictory.
Today, I'd like to provide you with hope, and my goal is not to speak with you but rather share my experiences and learnings to empower and challenge you to make progress together.
The inflammation that we have is ultimately set off by our leaky gut and microbiome imbalance. I want to talk to you a bit about inflammation today as it is relates to metabolism and weight gain.
In this week's Lupus Q&A, Dr. Connie discusses what intermittent fasting is and its benefits, along with what you should do when your hormones are causing flares or flare like symptoms.
Our genes are the deck of cards we are dealt with when we are born. But it is our lifestyle and environment that determine whether those genes will develop health or disease. Dr. Connie discusses a new way to think about disease.
Early in my life as a Lupus patient, I’ve had to learn how to manage my disease in a way where I felt comfortable that it was under my control.
But time and time again through scary threats to my health, Lupus has reminded me just how fragile my life was.
In this Lupus Q&A session, Dr. Connie discusses how to relieve body aches, Vitamin K interactions, and implications of pulmonary fibrosis.
Mental fitness refers to having an agile and bright brain that allows you to apply yourself with greater ease, less stress, and with minimal resistance. Work on incorporating these tips everyday and you'll find that your brain feels younger and you'll experience less brain fog.
Having perspective in the medical system and understanding its limits motivates us to create our health.
Things can go south very fast for us lupus patients and we need medical intervention to keep us from devastating effects of lupus.
But it's in our best interest to constantly build health by taking responsibility for ourselves.