How to Protect Yourself from the Smoke in the Air
With Bay Area air quality at an all time low, here are a few tips you can use to minimize damage to your health. If you need to be …
Blogs
Preventing Colds and Flus
It used to be that I felt like we were all helpless victims of winter viruses – just waiting to get attacked by them and having to go through …
Investing in Your Health
Out-of-pocket costs are typically higher when seeing an integrative medicine doctor than when seeing a regular allopathic doctor. It is important for the patient to understand why this is, …
Thyroid Blog
Our integrative practitioners, Lynne Mielke, M.D. and Sandra Kreizenbeck, DNP at Optimal Health Spectrums believe that if the thyroid gland makes both, then we should replace both if it …
Vegan and Vegetarian Diets – healthy or not?
This is a sensitive topic that many people are very passionate about – whether or not to eat animals (vegetarian) or even any animal products such as dairy or …
Type 2 Diabetes, what is the solution?
Did you know that the standard medical recommendations for the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes are terrible in my opinion? Drugs, drugs, and more drugs – to try to …
The Ketogenic Diet
The Ketogenic diet is taking the world by storm. There has been an explosion of evidence that eating keto is beneficial for essentially all the major health problems that …
Medical Grade Skin Care
What is the difference between skin care products that you find at a local department store or advertised on TV by famous celebrities, and my skin care line – …
Intermittent Fasting
If the thought of skipping a meal makes you nervous, you are not alone. We have all heard the saying, “Breakfast is the most important meal of the day”, …
Integrative Medical Treatment for Seasonal Allergies/Asthma/Sinus Infections
This is the season when many people in the Bay Area are really suffering from seasonal allergies, often known as hay fever. This is not as benign as it …