Sleep is nearly as glorious as food. I don’t know if I could live without one or the other. In fact, many studies show that recovery from stress or exertion of the day, physical and mental, requires 7-9 hours of sleep daily. It is the design of nature for us to rest our bodies and minds for this period of time. Sleep studies indicate that deficits in the duration or depth of sleep leads to chronic fatigue and fibromyalgia. Considering that so many factors disrupt sleep, which also coincides with Read more [...]

Nutritional deficiency was for so many alternative doctors, in the past, the most reliable method for restoring normal metabolic function to patients. Disease is sadly much more complex in today's modern environmentally toxic time. The issues leading to Fibromyalgia are much more complex, but restoration of normal nutrient values is essential to recover full function. The conditions described in prior articles such as candida, food allergies, and toxicities, lead to increased oxidation requiring Read more [...]

It seems these days everything gets blamed on hormone deficiencies or imbalances. Hormone deficiency affects the thyroid, adrenals, and of course the ovaries (in women), and testes (in men). Hormone deficiencies when treated appropriately, add such a significant benefit, it is often astounding the patients' responses. Often, good intentioned doctors, utilize only hormones to solve some of life’s most complex disease cases, but without consistent success. It is true that often people experience Read more [...]

Adrenal fatigue has been proposed for a number of years as part of the cause of Fibromyalgia. It is difficult to say how it rates in order of importance as an underlying cause, because it also develops as a concurrent problem due to any chronic illness. By the time any patience is diagnosed or discovers through their own research that they have Fibromyalgia, they have frequently developed chronic fatigue or lethargy. Not a surprise really. Many of the underlying causes for chronic fatigue are the Read more [...]

Environmental exposures are now often involved in the inability of normal detox pathways to keep pace. Genetic defects such as Methyl Tetra-Hydrofolate Reductase Enzyme (MTHFR) defect, and Phase 2 liver defects, lead to increased exposure within the matrix or extra-cellular space. This space is where all the hormones, immune cells, and neurotransmitters communicate with one another. With the extra toxins present communication is interrupted. Communication is hampered and the long term effects can Read more [...]

Once a patient begins to treat two of the most common causes, which are candida and food sensitivities, the immune system starts to rebound to full activity. There stands, in the immediate path of immune improvement all environmental exposures, the first of which is toxic metals. Toxic metals are heavy metals, not required for health or metabolic function, but when present within the body, actually suppress normal metabolic or immune pathways. The mass effect results in immune suppression and fatigue. Read more [...]

As is the case with many chronic diseases, by the time they present in our Mesa/Gilbert offices, they have 3-8 underlying causes to each disease. In other words, it is never just one thing. If yeast is the #1 cause of Fibromyalgia, than #2 are most likely food allergies. This idea throws many people off since most patients have never noticed any allergic reactions to food. This is because food allergies also produce other antibodies such as IgG, IgM, and even IgA that are different in their immune Read more [...]

Enough is enough! There exists a cure for Fibromyalgia. It is accessible to each and every patient. It is not a fictitious or stealthy disease, but a disease resulting from a negative synergism of multiple, but treatable causes. Each cause will be introduced one at a time over the next few weeks in our East Valley Naturopathic Doctors blog. In our mesa practice, we see daily patients who have been to doctor after doctor searching for answers to their fatigue and pain. At the root, we find the most Read more [...]