Dr. Deborah's Blog Posts

If you struggle to sleep well you’re not alone. Most people deal with insomnia at some point in their life. But if you have a chronic health condition, like an autoimmune disease, and you’re not sleeping well you may be hindering your ability to feel well and heal your body. If you’re not [...]

Being diagnosed with an autoimmune condition changes you. Before you were diagnosed you had dreams, goals and ideas about what you were going to do with your life….but then you got sick. And now, your #1 goal and dream is to feel good and be healthy again so you can get back to more fully […]

If you have an autoimmune condition you can get better with functional medicine. Here’s why. Simply put, functional medicine focuses on discovering and treating the root causes or the “why” behind “how” your autoimmune condition developed in the first place. When you discover and treat your [...]

Food is one of the most powerful medicines that can create life-long health. Every bite you put in your mouth has the potential to heal your body so you can start to feel good again. That’s great news if you have an autoimmune disease. When you eat nourishing and healing foods, you can reverse [...]

When you have an autoimmune condition you’re often searching for simple solutions that can help you feel better. Your gut health is one of the biggest influencers when it comes to your autoimmune disease (even if your condition doesn’t seem to be gut related). In his 2009 landmark study, [...]

If you’ve recently been diagnosed with an autoimmune condition — and you’re feeling overwhelmed, frustrated, discouraged or straight up scared — you’re not alone.  Getting an autoimmune diagnosis can be a difficult and overwhelming challenge. A survey by the AARDA suggests it [...]

When your health is less than ideal, and it feels like you’re on a constant downward path, you may find it difficult to express gratitude. I’ve been there and I get it. When you don’t feel good it’s hard to find and appreciate the good things in life when it feels like the dark cloud […]

If you have an autoimmune condition, you want to feel better and reverse the progression of your disease. From a functional medicine perspective both these things are possible when you address the root causes of your condition — and it’s believed that gluten is one of the many possible [...]

Toxins and autoimmunity are intimately connected. From a functional medicine perspective, toxins are one of the root causes of autoimmune disease and must be addressed on your road back to better health. Not only can toxins directly trigger autoimmune conditions to develop but they can also [...]

There’s a myth out there that if you have an autoimmune condition, your only option is to manage the symptoms with medications and hope for the best. You’re stuck with fatigue, pain, and a life you didn’t sign up for. Words like reversal and remission don’t apply to you. That myth couldn’t be [...]