Functional Medicine | Women's Health
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND I have been seeing a lot of inflammation flare-ups lately in the clinic, and wanted to explain how I look at them, and help your body to get back into balance again. After a couple of stressful years for various reasons, and often a drop-off of self-care, inflammation can look quite different for each of us. Signs you …
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By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND Insulin resistance is something that I talk about multiple times every day in my work, and it has become even more prevalent in the past two years with high stress and a more sedentary lifestyle. It is extremely important to identify and address insulin resistance since it is on the trajectory towards diabetes, and on …
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND I have lately received several referrals of patients who are experiencing long-COVID symptoms, and wanted to share with you my perspective, areas to investigate and a possible approach. There is not much known about why some people are affected long-term from this infection and others only experience mild cold symptoms. …
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND I’m writing this article, because I have noticed a pattern in quite a number of patients lately and hope that this short article may help you put the pieces together for your own health if you are experiencing symptoms of histamine intolerance. Common symptoms associated with histamine intolerance include: nausea …
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND It certainly has been a challenging couple of years, with ongoing stresses living through the pandemic. I find it interesting that everyone I speak to has had different stresses, but it does seem that almost universally, the load of stress has been significantly higher than it was previously. We are very good at …
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND Technically brain fog is not a diagnosis or a clearly definable condition, but is a way of expressing a change in thinking or cognition that can have a profound effect on quality of life. Some to the symptoms can include: difficulty with focus and concentration attention problems slow thinking reduced …
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND Fatigue, or tiredness is the number one complaint that brings people in for naturopathic care. There are many underlying factors to investigate in determining the cause of tiredness. Below is my top 10 list of factors that that can be causing your fatigue. Many of these are missed in a conventional medical work-up, or …
By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND Whether your goal is Alzheimer’s prevention, or you’re having issues with your memory like word-finding, or you have regular brain fog, this article is for you. Your brain requires adequate nutrients, good blood flow, and a minimally inflamed body. What this means, is that treating the brain is very much the same as …
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By Dr. Shawna Darou, ND Food is information, and when the body becomes out of balance in an inflamed state, the quality of food becomes even more critical. I am a big fan of a ‘food-first’ approach with health, because it is incredible the impact that dietary changes can make on symptoms like joint pain, migraines, fatigue, skin conditions, …
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