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Classic allergy signs of sinus congestion, runny nose and sneezing, tearing and itchy eyes are caused by the activity of excess histamine. Histamine is released when a specific type of white blood cell, called a mast cell, is triggered by an allergen to burst. Histamine molecules then attach to histamine receptors, triggering allergy symptoms.

Anti-histamine medications, such as Loratadine and Cetirizine, work at the end the allergy process by preventing the histamine molecules from attaching to histamine receptors.

The goals of naturopathic allergy treatment includes 1) identifying the allergens and reducing or eliminating your exposure to them, 2) decreasing your immune system’s sensitivity to these allergens, 3) stabilizing your mast cells to decrease the release of excess histamine, 4) reducing discomfort from current allergy symptoms.

Air filters help to reduce the amount of allergens in your home. Choose a filter that incorporates a multistage filter. Do a daily nasal rinse with distilled water and a small amount of sea salt. Eliminate problem foods from your diet. Stabilizing mast cells and reducing current symptoms can be achieved with a number of different herbs and common nutritional supplements, such as vitamin C, the B vitamins, nettles and probiotics.

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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in America. Approximately 500,000-700,000 deaths a year are related to the coronary artery. Wouldn’t you like to reduce your risk of becoming part of this statistic?

To reduce your risk, start with the basics – clean up your diet, eliminating trans fats and reducing saturated fats, simple carbohydrates and caffeine, and increasing vegetables, whole grains, health fats and wild caught fish. Incorporating anti-inflammatory herbs and spices, like ginger and turmeric, in your cooking can help to decrease general and cardiovascular-related inflammation. Increasing fiber content, either by adding more servings of fresh vegetables and whole grains, or by adding flax seed or psyllium husk to your supplementation routine, helps to bind and eliminate cholesterol more efficiently, decrease total cholesterol levels. Exercise keeps your heart muscle strong and healthy and keeps off excess body weight. Stress reduction is also an important consideration. Make stress-relieving activities, like exercise, meditation and intentional deep breathing a part of your daily routine.

You can further reduce your risk with a thorough laboratory investigation of your current cardiovascular health. This includes the standard total cholesterol, LDL and HDL levels, a breakdown of LDL and HDL subtypes and other risk factors such as homocysteine levels and high sensitivity CRP. Knowing if these values are elevated will help us determine if further gentle interventions will help improve your cardiovascular health even more. These interventions may include niacin, fish oil, red yeast rice and CoQ10 – all can be beneficial, but need to be used appropriately to effectively lower your risk.

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Healthy nutrition is especially important from a few months before the beginning of a pregnancy all the way through to the end of breastfeeding both for mom and baby. In addition to eating a whole foods diet rich in vegetables, fruit and whole grains, there are several specific nutrients that are important in the healthy development of your baby. Folic acid is an essential nutrient that helps to prevent neural tube defects in the first couple months of pregnancy. Docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, is an omega-3 fatty acid present in fish oil that encourages healthy neurological development of your baby. Further along in pregnancy, calcium and magnesium become more important to support development of your baby’s skeletal system (without taking away from the integrity of your own!) and to help minimize muscle cramps for mom.

Naturopathic medicine also has much to offer individuals and couples who have concerns about fertility or are having difficulty getting pregnant. The first and most important step is to perfect your timing. Women can only conceive after ovulation, which is typically on day 14 of the menstrual cycle. However, not all women ovulate at the same time, so it is important to find your own rhythm through basal body temperature charting, watching for cervical mucous or using an ovulation predictor kit.

Women who have perfected their timing and still have difficulty conceiving may need further investigation into their menstrual cycle and adrenal hormone levels. Imbalanced sex hormones or dysfunctional adrenal hormones that can prevent pregnancy we can often correct with nutritional and lifestyle changes coupled with safe and effective botanical medicines. For more difficult hormone pictures, we may recommend gentle hormone therapies, using bioidentical hormones when possible.

For further information on naturopathic medicine and fertility, take a look at our Spring 2012 newsletter.

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Hormone imbalances in women can cause a number of difficult symptoms – pain, migraines, depression, and fatigue to name a few. Working to correct your hormone levels can make a huge difference in your daily life.

Start with a healthy diet with lots of vegetables, a variety of fruit and whole grains. Increasing dietary fiber helps to improve your elimination of excess hormones that can worsen premenstrual symptoms. Limiting pro-inflammatory foods such as meats, dairy and saturated fats around the time of your menses can help decrease menstrual cramps. Eating small protein and fiber rich snacks like almonds or celery and hummus help maintain blood glucose levels and reduce fatigue and headaches.

To understand how to further correct your hormone levels appropriately, we recommend testing sex hormones about three weeks into your cycle. These results guide your treatment plan, which may include nutritional supplements, botanical medicines or hormone therapies. It’s often helpful to look at your adrenal and thyroid hormones or other lab tests in addition to your sex hormones for a more complete picture. It’s common to see dysfunction in more than one hormone system leading to patients’ symptoms. To improve your health it’s important to look at and treat the whole picture!

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Preventative healthcare for kids starts with the very important, but often underestimated, foundation of good nutrition and activity choices. Your child’s diet should include lots of fruit and veggies, whole grains, and healthy proteins and fats. It should limit refined carbohydrates such as baked goods and sweets as these can lead to several health problems including behavioral and weight issues. Make exercise part of the family routine – bike rides, hikes, a family soccer game on the weekends. Helping your kids create healthy habits from a young age will help them as they grow and become more independent.

The next step to staying healthy is learning to listen to the cues their bodies give about potential problems. Recognizing early signs is an important skill for both parents and kids to develop. Tummy aches, skin problems, ear infections, or a frequent cough are common examples of signs kids’ bodies give that indicate a potentially greater issue. The earlier these potential issues are treated, the less likely it is they will develop into more serious problems. Dr. Jewell-Larsen works with families to help interpret these signs, discover potential issues, and develops a treatment plan that addresses your child’s health concerns safely and gently.

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Stress is an unavoidable part of life. We encounter it at work, at home, in our own bodies on a daily basis. The adrenal system is one of the main ways our bodies mitigate stress. In more stressful times, our adrenals produce more hormones to help our bodies function, in less stressful times, the hormone levels reduce back to a normal level.

When you are exposed to a high level of stress over an extended period of time, for example a very high stress job or relationship or the illness or death of a family member, the adrenal system sometimes because dysfunctional or fatigued. Symptoms of adrenal dysfunction can include: all-day fatigue, difficulty waking in the morning, insomnia, changes in mood, feeling overwhelmed easily, changes in blood pressure and dependence on caffeine. You aren’t always able to remove yourself from stressful situations, and even once the stress has resolved, sometimes your adrenal system continues to be dysfunctional.

To address adrenal dysfunction effectively and comprehensively, it’s important to collect objective data on the current function of your adrenals through lab testing. This data helps us to understand how to create an effective treatment plan to correct your adrenal function and get you back on track. Treatment often includes herbal and nutritional therapies, physical activity and other stress reduction techniques.

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High levels of inflammation in your body can cause many symptoms. Common complaints related to inflammation include joint and muscle pain, upset stomach and headaches. You can significantly reduce the inflammation level in your body by choosing anti-inflammatory foods and seasonings.

Cold water, low mercury fish such as salmon and cod are rich in anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids. Fresh vegetables, especially the cabbage family vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower and brussels sprouts), contain high levels of antioxidants and beneficial phytochemicals. Vibrantly colored fruits, such as berries and cherries contain different flavonoids with antioxidant and anti—inflammatory properties. Pineapple and papaya have the added benefit of naturally occurring enzymes that help to decrease inflammatory proteins. And ginger, turmeric, saffron and rosemary all contain anti-inflammatory compounds and can have a profound effect on arthritic symptoms in particular.

Many common foods can have the negative effect of increasing your inflammation level. Some examples of these pro-inflammatory foods are red meats, grain fed poultry and farmed fish, nightshade family vegetables (potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant and bell peppers), animal fats, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated fats, coffee and refined sugar. Decreasing or avoiding these foods may improve inflammation related symptoms.

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Classic allergy signs of sinus congestion, runny nose and sneezing, tearing and itchy eyes are caused by the activity of excess histamine. Histamine is released when a specific type of white blood cell, called a mast cell, is triggered by an allergen to burst. Histamine molecules then attach to histamine receptors, triggering allergy symptoms.

Anti-histamine medications, such as Loratadine and Cetirizine, work at the end the allergy process by preventing the histamine molecules from attaching to histamine receptors.

The goals of naturopathic allergy treatment includes 1) identifying the allergens and reducing or eliminating your exposure to them, 2) decreasing your immune system’s sensitivity to these allergens, 3) stabilizing your mast cells to decrease the release of excess histamine, 4) reducing discomfort from current allergy symptoms.

Air filters help to reduce the amount of allergens in your home. Choose a filter that incorporates a multistage filter. Do a daily nasal rinse with distilled water and a small amount of sea salt. Eliminate problem foods from your diet. Stabilizing mast cells and reducing current symptoms can be achieved with a number of different herbs and common nutritional supplements, such as vitamin C, the B vitamins, nettles and probiotics.

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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in America. Approximately 500,000-700,000 deaths a year are related to the coronary artery. Wouldn’t you like to reduce your risk of becoming part of this statistic?

To reduce your risk, start with the basics – clean up your diet, eliminating trans fats and reducing saturated fats, simple carbohydrates and caffeine, and increasing vegetables, whole grains, health fats and wild caught fish. Incorporating anti-inflammatory herbs and spices, like ginger and turmeric, in your cooking can help to decrease general and cardiovascular-related inflammation. Increasing fiber content, either by adding more servings of fresh vegetables and whole grains, or by adding flax seed or psyllium husk to your supplementation routine, helps to bind and eliminate cholesterol more efficiently, decrease total cholesterol levels. Exercise keeps your heart muscle strong and healthy and keeps off excess body weight. Stress reduction is also an important consideration. Make stress-relieving activities, like exercise, meditation and intentional deep breathing a part of your daily routine.

You can further reduce your risk with a thorough laboratory investigation of your current cardiovascular health. This includes the standard total cholesterol, LDL and HDL levels, a breakdown of LDL and HDL subtypes and other risk factors such as homocysteine levels and high sensitivity CRP. Knowing if these values are elevated will help us determine if further gentle interventions will help improve your cardiovascular health even more. These interventions may include niacin, fish oil, red yeast rice and CoQ10 – all can be beneficial, but need to be used appropriately to effectively lower your risk.

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Healthy nutrition is especially important from a few months before the beginning of a pregnancy all the way through to the end of breastfeeding both for mom and baby. In addition to eating a whole foods diet rich in vegetables, fruit and whole grains, there are several specific nutrients that are important in the healthy development of your baby. Folic acid is an essential nutrient that helps to prevent neural tube defects in the first couple months of pregnancy. Docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, is an omega-3 fatty acid present in fish oil that encourages healthy neurological development of your baby. Further along in pregnancy, calcium and magnesium become more important to support development of your baby’s skeletal system (without taking away from the integrity of your own!) and to help minimize muscle cramps for mom.

Naturopathic medicine also has much to offer individuals and couples who have concerns about fertility or are having difficulty getting pregnant. The first and most important step is to perfect your timing. Women can only conceive after ovulation, which is typically on day 14 of the menstrual cycle. However, not all women ovulate at the same time, so it is important to find your own rhythm through basal body temperature charting, watching for cervical mucous or using an ovulation predictor kit.

Women who have perfected their timing and still have difficulty conceiving may need further investigation into their menstrual cycle and adrenal hormone levels. Imbalanced sex hormones or dysfunctional adrenal hormones that can prevent pregnancy we can often correct with nutritional and lifestyle changes coupled with safe and effective botanical medicines. For more difficult hormone pictures, we may recommend gentle hormone therapies, using bioidentical hormones when possible.

For further information on naturopathic medicine and fertility, take a look at our Spring 2012 newsletter.

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Hormone imbalances in women can cause a number of difficult symptoms – pain, migraines, depression, and fatigue to name a few. Working to correct your hormone levels can make a huge difference in your daily life.

Start with a healthy diet with lots of vegetables, a variety of fruit and whole grains. Increasing dietary fiber helps to improve your elimination of excess hormones that can worsen premenstrual symptoms. Limiting pro-inflammatory foods such as meats, dairy and saturated fats around the time of your menses can help decrease menstrual cramps. Eating small protein and fiber rich snacks like almonds or celery and hummus help maintain blood glucose levels and reduce fatigue and headaches.

To understand how to further correct your hormone levels appropriately, we recommend testing sex hormones about three weeks into your cycle. These results guide your treatment plan, which may include nutritional supplements, botanical medicines or hormone therapies. It’s often helpful to look at your adrenal and thyroid hormones or other lab tests in addition to your sex hormones for a more complete picture. It’s common to see dysfunction in more than one hormone system leading to patients’ symptoms. To improve your health it’s important to look at and treat the whole picture!

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Preventative healthcare for kids starts with the very important, but often underestimated, foundation of good nutrition and activity choices. Your child’s diet should include lots of fruit and veggies, whole grains, and healthy proteins and fats. It should limit refined carbohydrates such as baked goods and sweets as these can lead to several health problems including behavioral and weight issues. Make exercise part of the family routine – bike rides, hikes, a family soccer game on the weekends. Helping your kids create healthy habits from a young age will help them as they grow and become more independent.

The next step to staying healthy is learning to listen to the cues their bodies give about potential problems. Recognizing early signs is an important skill for both parents and kids to develop. Tummy aches, skin problems, ear infections, or a frequent cough are common examples of signs kids’ bodies give that indicate a potentially greater issue. The earlier these potential issues are treated, the less likely it is they will develop into more serious problems. Dr. Jewell-Larsen works with families to help interpret these signs, discover potential issues, and develops a treatment plan that addresses your child’s health concerns safely and gently.

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Stress is an unavoidable part of life. We encounter it at work, at home, in our own bodies on a daily basis. The adrenal system is one of the main ways our bodies mitigate stress. In more stressful times, our adrenals produce more hormones to help our bodies function, in less stressful times, the hormone levels reduce back to a normal level.

When you are exposed to a high level of stress over an extended period of time, for example a very high stress job or relationship or the illness or death of a family member, the adrenal system sometimes because dysfunctional or fatigued. Symptoms of adrenal dysfunction can include: all-day fatigue, difficulty waking in the morning, insomnia, changes in mood, feeling overwhelmed easily, changes in blood pressure and dependence on caffeine. You aren’t always able to remove yourself from stressful situations, and even once the stress has resolved, sometimes your adrenal system continues to be dysfunctional.

To address adrenal dysfunction effectively and comprehensively, it’s important to collect objective data on the current function of your adrenals through lab testing. This data helps us to understand how to create an effective treatment plan to correct your adrenal function and get you back on track. Treatment often includes herbal and nutritional therapies, physical activity and other stress reduction techniques.

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High levels of inflammation in your body can cause many symptoms. Common complaints related to inflammation include joint and muscle pain, upset stomach and headaches. You can significantly reduce the inflammation level in your body by choosing anti-inflammatory foods and seasonings.

Cold water, low mercury fish such as salmon and cod are rich in anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids. Fresh vegetables, especially the cabbage family vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower and brussels sprouts), contain high levels of antioxidants and beneficial phytochemicals. Vibrantly colored fruits, such as berries and cherries contain different flavonoids with antioxidant and anti—inflammatory properties. Pineapple and papaya have the added benefit of naturally occurring enzymes that help to decrease inflammatory proteins. And ginger, turmeric, saffron and rosemary all contain anti-inflammatory compounds and can have a profound effect on arthritic symptoms in particular.

Many common foods can have the negative effect of increasing your inflammation level. Some examples of these pro-inflammatory foods are red meats, grain fed poultry and farmed fish, nightshade family vegetables (potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant and bell peppers), animal fats, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated fats, coffee and refined sugar. Decreasing or avoiding these foods may improve inflammation related symptoms.

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Classic allergy signs of sinus congestion, runny nose and sneezing, tearing and itchy eyes are caused by the activity of excess histamine. Histamine is released when a specific type of white blood cell, called a mast cell, is triggered by an allergen to burst. Histamine molecules then attach to histamine receptors, triggering allergy symptoms.

Anti-histamine medications, such as Loratadine and Cetirizine, work at the end the allergy process by preventing the histamine molecules from attaching to histamine receptors.

The goals of naturopathic allergy treatment includes 1) identifying the allergens and reducing or eliminating your exposure to them, 2) decreasing your immune system’s sensitivity to these allergens, 3) stabilizing your mast cells to decrease the release of excess histamine, 4) reducing discomfort from current allergy symptoms.

Air filters help to reduce the amount of allergens in your home. Choose a filter that incorporates a multistage filter. Do a daily nasal rinse with distilled water and a small amount of sea salt. Eliminate problem foods from your diet. Stabilizing mast cells and reducing current symptoms can be achieved with a number of different herbs and common nutritional supplements, such as vitamin C, the B vitamins, nettles and probiotics.

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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in America. Approximately 500,000-700,000 deaths a year are related to the coronary artery. Wouldn’t you like to reduce your risk of becoming part of this statistic?

To reduce your risk, start with the basics – clean up your diet, eliminating trans fats and reducing saturated fats, simple carbohydrates and caffeine, and increasing vegetables, whole grains, health fats and wild caught fish. Incorporating anti-inflammatory herbs and spices, like ginger and turmeric, in your cooking can help to decrease general and cardiovascular-related inflammation. Increasing fiber content, either by adding more servings of fresh vegetables and whole grains, or by adding flax seed or psyllium husk to your supplementation routine, helps to bind and eliminate cholesterol more efficiently, decrease total cholesterol levels. Exercise keeps your heart muscle strong and healthy and keeps off excess body weight. Stress reduction is also an important consideration. Make stress-relieving activities, like exercise, meditation and intentional deep breathing a part of your daily routine.

You can further reduce your risk with a thorough laboratory investigation of your current cardiovascular health. This includes the standard total cholesterol, LDL and HDL levels, a breakdown of LDL and HDL subtypes and other risk factors such as homocysteine levels and high sensitivity CRP. Knowing if these values are elevated will help us determine if further gentle interventions will help improve your cardiovascular health even more. These interventions may include niacin, fish oil, red yeast rice and CoQ10 – all can be beneficial, but need to be used appropriately to effectively lower your risk.

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Healthy nutrition is especially important from a few months before the beginning of a pregnancy all the way through to the end of breastfeeding both for mom and baby. In addition to eating a whole foods diet rich in vegetables, fruit and whole grains, there are several specific nutrients that are important in the healthy development of your baby. Folic acid is an essential nutrient that helps to prevent neural tube defects in the first couple months of pregnancy. Docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, is an omega-3 fatty acid present in fish oil that encourages healthy neurological development of your baby. Further along in pregnancy, calcium and magnesium become more important to support development of your baby’s skeletal system (without taking away from the integrity of your own!) and to help minimize muscle cramps for mom.

Naturopathic medicine also has much to offer individuals and couples who have concerns about fertility or are having difficulty getting pregnant. The first and most important step is to perfect your timing. Women can only conceive after ovulation, which is typically on day 14 of the menstrual cycle. However, not all women ovulate at the same time, so it is important to find your own rhythm through basal body temperature charting, watching for cervical mucous or using an ovulation predictor kit.

Women who have perfected their timing and still have difficulty conceiving may need further investigation into their menstrual cycle and adrenal hormone levels. Imbalanced sex hormones or dysfunctional adrenal hormones that can prevent pregnancy we can often correct with nutritional and lifestyle changes coupled with safe and effective botanical medicines. For more difficult hormone pictures, we may recommend gentle hormone therapies, using bioidentical hormones when possible.

For further information on naturopathic medicine and fertility, take a look at our Spring 2012 newsletter.

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Hormone imbalances in women can cause a number of difficult symptoms – pain, migraines, depression, and fatigue to name a few. Working to correct your hormone levels can make a huge difference in your daily life.

Start with a healthy diet with lots of vegetables, a variety of fruit and whole grains. Increasing dietary fiber helps to improve your elimination of excess hormones that can worsen premenstrual symptoms. Limiting pro-inflammatory foods such as meats, dairy and saturated fats around the time of your menses can help decrease menstrual cramps. Eating small protein and fiber rich snacks like almonds or celery and hummus help maintain blood glucose levels and reduce fatigue and headaches.

To understand how to further correct your hormone levels appropriately, we recommend testing sex hormones about three weeks into your cycle. These results guide your treatment plan, which may include nutritional supplements, botanical medicines or hormone therapies. It’s often helpful to look at your adrenal and thyroid hormones or other lab tests in addition to your sex hormones for a more complete picture. It’s common to see dysfunction in more than one hormone system leading to patients’ symptoms. To improve your health it’s important to look at and treat the whole picture!

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Preventative healthcare for kids starts with the very important, but often underestimated, foundation of good nutrition and activity choices. Your child’s diet should include lots of fruit and veggies, whole grains, and healthy proteins and fats. It should limit refined carbohydrates such as baked goods and sweets as these can lead to several health problems including behavioral and weight issues. Make exercise part of the family routine – bike rides, hikes, a family soccer game on the weekends. Helping your kids create healthy habits from a young age will help them as they grow and become more independent.

The next step to staying healthy is learning to listen to the cues their bodies give about potential problems. Recognizing early signs is an important skill for both parents and kids to develop. Tummy aches, skin problems, ear infections, or a frequent cough are common examples of signs kids’ bodies give that indicate a potentially greater issue. The earlier these potential issues are treated, the less likely it is they will develop into more serious problems. Dr. Jewell-Larsen works with families to help interpret these signs, discover potential issues, and develops a treatment plan that addresses your child’s health concerns safely and gently.

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Stress is an unavoidable part of life. We encounter it at work, at home, in our own bodies on a daily basis. The adrenal system is one of the main ways our bodies mitigate stress. In more stressful times, our adrenals produce more hormones to help our bodies function, in less stressful times, the hormone levels reduce back to a normal level.

When you are exposed to a high level of stress over an extended period of time, for example a very high stress job or relationship or the illness or death of a family member, the adrenal system sometimes because dysfunctional or fatigued. Symptoms of adrenal dysfunction can include: all-day fatigue, difficulty waking in the morning, insomnia, changes in mood, feeling overwhelmed easily, changes in blood pressure and dependence on caffeine. You aren’t always able to remove yourself from stressful situations, and even once the stress has resolved, sometimes your adrenal system continues to be dysfunctional.

To address adrenal dysfunction effectively and comprehensively, it’s important to collect objective data on the current function of your adrenals through lab testing. This data helps us to understand how to create an effective treatment plan to correct your adrenal function and get you back on track. Treatment often includes herbal and nutritional therapies, physical activity and other stress reduction techniques.

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High levels of inflammation in your body can cause many symptoms. Common complaints related to inflammation include joint and muscle pain, upset stomach and headaches. You can significantly reduce the inflammation level in your body by choosing anti-inflammatory foods and seasonings.

Cold water, low mercury fish such as salmon and cod are rich in anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids. Fresh vegetables, especially the cabbage family vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower and brussels sprouts), contain high levels of antioxidants and beneficial phytochemicals. Vibrantly colored fruits, such as berries and cherries contain different flavonoids with antioxidant and anti—inflammatory properties. Pineapple and papaya have the added benefit of naturally occurring enzymes that help to decrease inflammatory proteins. And ginger, turmeric, saffron and rosemary all contain anti-inflammatory compounds and can have a profound effect on arthritic symptoms in particular.

Many common foods can have the negative effect of increasing your inflammation level. Some examples of these pro-inflammatory foods are red meats, grain fed poultry and farmed fish, nightshade family vegetables (potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant and bell peppers), animal fats, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated fats, coffee and refined sugar. Decreasing or avoiding these foods may improve inflammation related symptoms.

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Hormone imbalances in women can cause a number of difficult symptoms – pain, migraines, depression, and fatigue to name a few. Working to correct your hormone levels can make a huge difference in your daily life.

Start with a healthy diet with lots of vegetables, a variety of fruit and whole grains. Increasing dietary fiber helps to improve your elimination of excess hormones that can worsen premenstrual symptoms. Limiting pro-inflammatory foods such as meats, dairy and saturated fats around the time of your menses can help decrease menstrual cramps. Eating small protein and fiber rich snacks like almonds or celery and hummus help maintain blood glucose levels and reduce fatigue and headaches.

To understand how to further correct your hormone levels appropriately, we recommend testing sex hormones about three weeks into your cycle. These results guide your treatment plan, which may include nutritional supplements, botanical medicines or hormone therapies. It’s often helpful to look at your adrenal and thyroid hormones or other lab tests in addition to your sex hormones for a more complete picture. It’s common to see dysfunction in more than one hormone system leading to patients’ symptoms. To improve your health it’s important to look at and treat the whole picture!

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Classic allergy signs of sinus congestion, runny nose and sneezing, tearing and itchy eyes are caused by the activity of excess histamine. Histamine is released when a specific type of white blood cell, called a mast cell, is triggered by an allergen to burst. Histamine molecules then attach to histamine receptors, triggering allergy symptoms.

Anti-histamine medications, such as Loratadine and Cetirizine, work at the end the allergy process by preventing the histamine molecules from attaching to histamine receptors.

The goals of naturopathic allergy treatment includes 1) identifying the allergens and reducing or eliminating your exposure to them, 2) decreasing your immune system’s sensitivity to these allergens, 3) stabilizing your mast cells to decrease the release of excess histamine, 4) reducing discomfort from current allergy symptoms.

Air filters help to reduce the amount of allergens in your home. Choose a filter that incorporates a multistage filter. Do a daily nasal rinse with distilled water and a small amount of sea salt. Eliminate problem foods from your diet. Stabilizing mast cells and reducing current symptoms can be achieved with a number of different herbs and common nutritional supplements, such as vitamin C, the B vitamins, nettles and probiotics.

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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in America. Approximately 500,000-700,000 deaths a year are related to the coronary artery. Wouldn’t you like to reduce your risk of becoming part of this statistic?

To reduce your risk, start with the basics – clean up your diet, eliminating trans fats and reducing saturated fats, simple carbohydrates and caffeine, and increasing vegetables, whole grains, health fats and wild caught fish. Incorporating anti-inflammatory herbs and spices, like ginger and turmeric, in your cooking can help to decrease general and cardiovascular-related inflammation. Increasing fiber content, either by adding more servings of fresh vegetables and whole grains, or by adding flax seed or psyllium husk to your supplementation routine, helps to bind and eliminate cholesterol more efficiently, decrease total cholesterol levels. Exercise keeps your heart muscle strong and healthy and keeps off excess body weight. Stress reduction is also an important consideration. Make stress-relieving activities, like exercise, meditation and intentional deep breathing a part of your daily routine.

You can further reduce your risk with a thorough laboratory investigation of your current cardiovascular health. This includes the standard total cholesterol, LDL and HDL levels, a breakdown of LDL and HDL subtypes and other risk factors such as homocysteine levels and high sensitivity CRP. Knowing if these values are elevated will help us determine if further gentle interventions will help improve your cardiovascular health even more. These interventions may include niacin, fish oil, red yeast rice and CoQ10 – all can be beneficial, but need to be used appropriately to effectively lower your risk.

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Healthy nutrition is especially important from a few months before the beginning of a pregnancy all the way through to the end of breastfeeding both for mom and baby. In addition to eating a whole foods diet rich in vegetables, fruit and whole grains, there are several specific nutrients that are important in the healthy development of your baby. Folic acid is an essential nutrient that helps to prevent neural tube defects in the first couple months of pregnancy. Docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, is an omega-3 fatty acid present in fish oil that encourages healthy neurological development of your baby. Further along in pregnancy, calcium and magnesium become more important to support development of your baby’s skeletal system (without taking away from the integrity of your own!) and to help minimize muscle cramps for mom.

Naturopathic medicine also has much to offer individuals and couples who have concerns about fertility or are having difficulty getting pregnant. The first and most important step is to perfect your timing. Women can only conceive after ovulation, which is typically on day 14 of the menstrual cycle. However, not all women ovulate at the same time, so it is important to find your own rhythm through basal body temperature charting, watching for cervical mucous or using an ovulation predictor kit.

Women who have perfected their timing and still have difficulty conceiving may need further investigation into their menstrual cycle and adrenal hormone levels. Imbalanced sex hormones or dysfunctional adrenal hormones that can prevent pregnancy we can often correct with nutritional and lifestyle changes coupled with safe and effective botanical medicines. For more difficult hormone pictures, we may recommend gentle hormone therapies, using bioidentical hormones when possible.

For further information on naturopathic medicine and fertility, take a look at our Spring 2012 newsletter.

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Hormone imbalances in women can cause a number of difficult symptoms – pain, migraines, depression, and fatigue to name a few. Working to correct your hormone levels can make a huge difference in your daily life.

Start with a healthy diet with lots of vegetables, a variety of fruit and whole grains. Increasing dietary fiber helps to improve your elimination of excess hormones that can worsen premenstrual symptoms. Limiting pro-inflammatory foods such as meats, dairy and saturated fats around the time of your menses can help decrease menstrual cramps. Eating small protein and fiber rich snacks like almonds or celery and hummus help maintain blood glucose levels and reduce fatigue and headaches.

To understand how to further correct your hormone levels appropriately, we recommend testing sex hormones about three weeks into your cycle. These results guide your treatment plan, which may include nutritional supplements, botanical medicines or hormone therapies. It’s often helpful to look at your adrenal and thyroid hormones or other lab tests in addition to your sex hormones for a more complete picture. It’s common to see dysfunction in more than one hormone system leading to patients’ symptoms. To improve your health it’s important to look at and treat the whole picture!

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Preventative healthcare for kids starts with the very important, but often underestimated, foundation of good nutrition and activity choices. Your child’s diet should include lots of fruit and veggies, whole grains, and healthy proteins and fats. It should limit refined carbohydrates such as baked goods and sweets as these can lead to several health problems including behavioral and weight issues. Make exercise part of the family routine – bike rides, hikes, a family soccer game on the weekends. Helping your kids create healthy habits from a young age will help them as they grow and become more independent.

The next step to staying healthy is learning to listen to the cues their bodies give about potential problems. Recognizing early signs is an important skill for both parents and kids to develop. Tummy aches, skin problems, ear infections, or a frequent cough are common examples of signs kids’ bodies give that indicate a potentially greater issue. The earlier these potential issues are treated, the less likely it is they will develop into more serious problems. Dr. Jewell-Larsen works with families to help interpret these signs, discover potential issues, and develops a treatment plan that addresses your child’s health concerns safely and gently.

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Stress is an unavoidable part of life. We encounter it at work, at home, in our own bodies on a daily basis. The adrenal system is one of the main ways our bodies mitigate stress. In more stressful times, our adrenals produce more hormones to help our bodies function, in less stressful times, the hormone levels reduce back to a normal level.

When you are exposed to a high level of stress over an extended period of time, for example a very high stress job or relationship or the illness or death of a family member, the adrenal system sometimes because dysfunctional or fatigued. Symptoms of adrenal dysfunction can include: all-day fatigue, difficulty waking in the morning, insomnia, changes in mood, feeling overwhelmed easily, changes in blood pressure and dependence on caffeine. You aren’t always able to remove yourself from stressful situations, and even once the stress has resolved, sometimes your adrenal system continues to be dysfunctional.

To address adrenal dysfunction effectively and comprehensively, it’s important to collect objective data on the current function of your adrenals through lab testing. This data helps us to understand how to create an effective treatment plan to correct your adrenal function and get you back on track. Treatment often includes herbal and nutritional therapies, physical activity and other stress reduction techniques.

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High levels of inflammation in your body can cause many symptoms. Common complaints related to inflammation include joint and muscle pain, upset stomach and headaches. You can significantly reduce the inflammation level in your body by choosing anti-inflammatory foods and seasonings.

Cold water, low mercury fish such as salmon and cod are rich in anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids. Fresh vegetables, especially the cabbage family vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower and brussels sprouts), contain high levels of antioxidants and beneficial phytochemicals. Vibrantly colored fruits, such as berries and cherries contain different flavonoids with antioxidant and anti—inflammatory properties. Pineapple and papaya have the added benefit of naturally occurring enzymes that help to decrease inflammatory proteins. And ginger, turmeric, saffron and rosemary all contain anti-inflammatory compounds and can have a profound effect on arthritic symptoms in particular.

Many common foods can have the negative effect of increasing your inflammation level. Some examples of these pro-inflammatory foods are red meats, grain fed poultry and farmed fish, nightshade family vegetables (potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant and bell peppers), animal fats, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated fats, coffee and refined sugar. Decreasing or avoiding these foods may improve inflammation related symptoms.

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Classic allergy signs of sinus congestion, runny nose and sneezing, tearing and itchy eyes are caused by the activity of excess histamine. Histamine is released when a specific type of white blood cell, called a mast cell, is triggered by an allergen to burst. Histamine molecules then attach to histamine receptors, triggering allergy symptoms.

Anti-histamine medications, such as Loratadine and Cetirizine, work at the end the allergy process by preventing the histamine molecules from attaching to histamine receptors.

The goals of naturopathic allergy treatment includes 1) identifying the allergens and reducing or eliminating your exposure to them, 2) decreasing your immune system’s sensitivity to these allergens, 3) stabilizing your mast cells to decrease the release of excess histamine, 4) reducing discomfort from current allergy symptoms.

Air filters help to reduce the amount of allergens in your home. Choose a filter that incorporates a multistage filter. Do a daily nasal rinse with distilled water and a small amount of sea salt. Eliminate problem foods from your diet. Stabilizing mast cells and reducing current symptoms can be achieved with a number of different herbs and common nutritional supplements, such as vitamin C, the B vitamins, nettles and probiotics.

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Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in America. Approximately 500,000-700,000 deaths a year are related to the coronary artery. Wouldn’t you like to reduce your risk of becoming part of this statistic?

To reduce your risk, start with the basics – clean up your diet, eliminating trans fats and reducing saturated fats, simple carbohydrates and caffeine, and increasing vegetables, whole grains, health fats and wild caught fish. Incorporating anti-inflammatory herbs and spices, like ginger and turmeric, in your cooking can help to decrease general and cardiovascular-related inflammation. Increasing fiber content, either by adding more servings of fresh vegetables and whole grains, or by adding flax seed or psyllium husk to your supplementation routine, helps to bind and eliminate cholesterol more efficiently, decrease total cholesterol levels. Exercise keeps your heart muscle strong and healthy and keeps off excess body weight. Stress reduction is also an important consideration. Make stress-relieving activities, like exercise, meditation and intentional deep breathing a part of your daily routine.

You can further reduce your risk with a thorough laboratory investigation of your current cardiovascular health. This includes the standard total cholesterol, LDL and HDL levels, a breakdown of LDL and HDL subtypes and other risk factors such as homocysteine levels and high sensitivity CRP. Knowing if these values are elevated will help us determine if further gentle interventions will help improve your cardiovascular health even more. These interventions may include niacin, fish oil, red yeast rice and CoQ10 – all can be beneficial, but need to be used appropriately to effectively lower your risk.

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Healthy nutrition is especially important from a few months before the beginning of a pregnancy all the way through to the end of breastfeeding both for mom and baby. In addition to eating a whole foods diet rich in vegetables, fruit and whole grains, there are several specific nutrients that are important in the healthy development of your baby. Folic acid is an essential nutrient that helps to prevent neural tube defects in the first couple months of pregnancy. Docosahexaenoic acid, or DHA, is an omega-3 fatty acid present in fish oil that encourages healthy neurological development of your baby. Further along in pregnancy, calcium and magnesium become more important to support development of your baby’s skeletal system (without taking away from the integrity of your own!) and to help minimize muscle cramps for mom.

Naturopathic medicine also has much to offer individuals and couples who have concerns about fertility or are having difficulty getting pregnant. The first and most important step is to perfect your timing. Women can only conceive after ovulation, which is typically on day 14 of the menstrual cycle. However, not all women ovulate at the same time, so it is important to find your own rhythm through basal body temperature charting, watching for cervical mucous or using an ovulation predictor kit.

Women who have perfected their timing and still have difficulty conceiving may need further investigation into their menstrual cycle and adrenal hormone levels. Imbalanced sex hormones or dysfunctional adrenal hormones that can prevent pregnancy we can often correct with nutritional and lifestyle changes coupled with safe and effective botanical medicines. For more difficult hormone pictures, we may recommend gentle hormone therapies, using bioidentical hormones when possible.

For further information on naturopathic medicine and fertility, take a look at our Spring 2012 newsletter.

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Hormone imbalances in women can cause a number of difficult symptoms – pain, migraines, depression, and fatigue to name a few. Working to correct your hormone levels can make a huge difference in your daily life.

Start with a healthy diet with lots of vegetables, a variety of fruit and whole grains. Increasing dietary fiber helps to improve your elimination of excess hormones that can worsen premenstrual symptoms. Limiting pro-inflammatory foods such as meats, dairy and saturated fats around the time of your menses can help decrease menstrual cramps. Eating small protein and fiber rich snacks like almonds or celery and hummus help maintain blood glucose levels and reduce fatigue and headaches.

To understand how to further correct your hormone levels appropriately, we recommend testing sex hormones about three weeks into your cycle. These results guide your treatment plan, which may include nutritional supplements, botanical medicines or hormone therapies. It’s often helpful to look at your adrenal and thyroid hormones or other lab tests in addition to your sex hormones for a more complete picture. It’s common to see dysfunction in more than one hormone system leading to patients’ symptoms. To improve your health it’s important to look at and treat the whole picture!

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Preventative healthcare for kids starts with the very important, but often underestimated, foundation of good nutrition and activity choices. Your child’s diet should include lots of fruit and veggies, whole grains, and healthy proteins and fats. It should limit refined carbohydrates such as baked goods and sweets as these can lead to several health problems including behavioral and weight issues. Make exercise part of the family routine – bike rides, hikes, a family soccer game on the weekends. Helping your kids create healthy habits from a young age will help them as they grow and become more independent.

The next step to staying healthy is learning to listen to the cues their bodies give about potential problems. Recognizing early signs is an important skill for both parents and kids to develop. Tummy aches, skin problems, ear infections, or a frequent cough are common examples of signs kids’ bodies give that indicate a potentially greater issue. The earlier these potential issues are treated, the less likely it is they will develop into more serious problems. Dr. Jewell-Larsen works with families to help interpret these signs, discover potential issues, and develops a treatment plan that addresses your child’s health concerns safely and gently.

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Stress is an unavoidable part of life. We encounter it at work, at home, in our own bodies on a daily basis. The adrenal system is one of the main ways our bodies mitigate stress. In more stressful times, our adrenals produce more hormones to help our bodies function, in less stressful times, the hormone levels reduce back to a normal level.

When you are exposed to a high level of stress over an extended period of time, for example a very high stress job or relationship or the illness or death of a family member, the adrenal system sometimes because dysfunctional or fatigued. Symptoms of adrenal dysfunction can include: all-day fatigue, difficulty waking in the morning, insomnia, changes in mood, feeling overwhelmed easily, changes in blood pressure and dependence on caffeine. You aren’t always able to remove yourself from stressful situations, and even once the stress has resolved, sometimes your adrenal system continues to be dysfunctional.

To address adrenal dysfunction effectively and comprehensively, it’s important to collect objective data on the current function of your adrenals through lab testing. This data helps us to understand how to create an effective treatment plan to correct your adrenal function and get you back on track. Treatment often includes herbal and nutritional therapies, physical activity and other stress reduction techniques.

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High levels of inflammation in your body can cause many symptoms. Common complaints related to inflammation include joint and muscle pain, upset stomach and headaches. You can significantly reduce the inflammation level in your body by choosing anti-inflammatory foods and seasonings.

Cold water, low mercury fish such as salmon and cod are rich in anti-inflammatory omega-3 fatty acids. Fresh vegetables, especially the cabbage family vegetables (broccoli, cauliflower and brussels sprouts), contain high levels of antioxidants and beneficial phytochemicals. Vibrantly colored fruits, such as berries and cherries contain different flavonoids with antioxidant and anti—inflammatory properties. Pineapple and papaya have the added benefit of naturally occurring enzymes that help to decrease inflammatory proteins. And ginger, turmeric, saffron and rosemary all contain anti-inflammatory compounds and can have a profound effect on arthritic symptoms in particular.

Many common foods can have the negative effect of increasing your inflammation level. Some examples of these pro-inflammatory foods are red meats, grain fed poultry and farmed fish, nightshade family vegetables (potatoes, tomatoes, eggplant and bell peppers), animal fats, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated fats, coffee and refined sugar. Decreasing or avoiding these foods may improve inflammation related symptoms.

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Stress is an unavoidable part of life. We encounter it at work, at home, in our own bodies on a daily basis. The adrenal system is one of the main ways our bodies mitigate stress. In more stressful times, our adrenals produce more hormones to help our bodies function, in less stressful times, the hormone levels reduce back to a normal level.

When you are exposed to a high level of stress over an extended period of time, for example a very high stress job or relationship or the illness or death of a family member, the adrenal system sometimes because dysfunctional or fatigued. Symptoms of adrenal dysfunction can include: all-day fatigue, difficulty waking in the morning, insomnia, changes in mood, feeling overwhelmed easily, changes in blood pressure and dependence on caffeine. You aren’t always able to remove yourself from stressful situations, and even once the stress has resolved, sometimes your adrenal system continues to be dysfunctional.

To address adrenal dysfunction effectively and comprehensively, it’s important to collect objective data on the current function of your adrenals through lab testing. This data helps us to understand how to create an effective treatment plan to correct your adrenal function and get you back on track. Treatment often includes herbal and nutritional therapies, physical activity and other stress reduction techniques.

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Naturopathic Family Health

Your health is one of your greatest assets. At Naturopathic Family Health in Los Gatos, California, our goal is to help you cultivate that asset and take control of your health and well-being. By working in partnership, our doctors will identify the root cause of your ailments and educate you on how to achieve and maintain optimal health.

The Naturopathic Family Health clinic serves both children and adults by using conventional medical knowledge, coupled with a safe, efficient and effective naturopathic approach and therapies. To ensure your treatment is comprehensive and complete, we draw on many resources to address health issues, including:

  • The most recent research available
  • Extensive naturopathic medical training
  • Traditional medicines
  • Alternative therapies
  • Conventional medical doctors and specialists, when needed.

Contact us today to set up a complimentary introductory phone consultation. We look forward to working with you on your path towards optimal health and well-being.

Dr. Casey has changed our lives forever! When we first brought our 3 1/2 year old daughter, Simone, to see her we had been dealing with breathing issues for about 1 year, in and out of the E.R. with a diagnosis of “possible Asthma”. After meeting with Dr. Casey twice she thought it was food allergy related. We had some tests run and we found out she was highly allergic/sensitive to Eggs, Gluten and some dairy…since changing her diet she has not had to use the Albuterol inhaler. Dr. Casey found a natural supplement to use in her nebulizer as needed and it is amazing! Simone is 4 years old now and after 5 months of treatment with Dr. Casey we have had no more E.R. visits and she is breathing much better now. Casey has a wonderful bedside manner with my daughter and we look forward to our check-ups!

- Bianca

I am so blessed to have Dr. Jen as my N.D. I came to her in late August ’12 with a history of clinical depression & anxiety. I had been using an antidepressant since 1994. I tried several times to get off the meds without success. I even changed my eating habits & became vegan but within 3 mo. the depression & panic attacks came back more intensely. I went to my previous M.D. and went back on the meds but this time they made my symptoms far worse. I couldn’t function at my job or at home.

I was frightened so I prayed daily for God to help & help came in the form of Dr. Jennifer Jewell- Larsen. She listened compassionately to my story and calmly gave her advice & recommendations. Within a few weeks after being tested & reviewing the results of the tests with Dr. Jen she prescribed for me certain herbs & vitamin supplements to help balance my hormones & ease my anxiety.

I thank God because a miracle happened…I feel superb! I feel my “normal” self. I have a vast amount of energy & no symptoms of depression or panic attacks! I’m still vegan & making sure I get plenty of protein by eating lots of whole grains, beans, nuts fruits & plenty of veggies. I’m exercising & taking one day at a time.

Bless your heart, Dr. Larsen & thanks for your hugs!

- Nancy

I had a mysterious health situation that made me very weak, affected my ability to sleep, left me with chills, tremor, and painful tension, came on suddenly and lasted for months — especially frightening for someone otherwise healthy in my mid-thirties! What I realized from many specialist visits (2 neurologists, 2 endocrinologists, 1 cardiologist, and many visits with my primary care doctor) is that they are only trained to diagnose things that are “in the book” and prescribe a treatment “from the book”. Of all the doctors I saw, Dr. Jewell-Larsen was the only one with a true theory of what was going on AND an actionable plan to get me back to normal again. Being able to look at the big picture of my health and identify ways to help my body get back to equilibrium was such a hugely useful approach. The traditional doctors I saw are all very well-regarded and seemed genuinely caring, but they just aren’t trained to look at the “big picture” in the way that Dr. Jewell-Larsen was able to. I am now well down the road to recovery and the turning point was when I came to Naturopathic Family Health!

- Rodney

In November 2010 I had heart surgery that left me with a lot of nerve damage on my left side. I had a bad rash like feeling on the underside of my arm, the scar, was red and “angry” and I had a large lump above my left breast that was painful. When I asked the surgeon about the damage I was told there wasn’t anything that could be done and I would have to live with these annoyances.

In January 2011, I went to see Dr. Berkebile for an acupuncture treatment. I had never had any acupuncture treatments, but was willing to try anything to get relief. Dr. Berkebile was very gentle and reassuring. She made me feel at ease and I knew I was in good hands under her care. I was pleasantly surprised by the immediate relief of the rash-like pain on my underarm. I told Dr. Berkebile she was a miracle worker! I continued my acupuncture treatment with Dr. Berkebile, the lump is now gone and the scar …. well you almost can’t see it. I have also noticed general improved health and reduced soreness in other areas of my body.

I have never been treated by a doctor who tracks my health with such sincere interest. She is very caring and compassionate and I am convinced anyone would enjoy better health as a result of being treated by her regardless of ailment or disease.

- Mary Ann

I began seeing Dr. Jewell-­Larsen last summer, and after our first meeting, I couldn’t wait to start recommending her to family and friends. She is a breath of fresh air! Dr. Jewell-­Larsen is very personable, kind, and compassionate. She truly listens to her patients, taking time to ask insightful questions to help get to the root of your health issues, and then developing a comprehensive, step-by-step treatment plan. My husband, my daughter, and I each have complex health issues that Dr. Jewell­‐ Larsen has treated. We have been very pleased with her professional, personal care and highly recommend Dr. Jewell­‐Larsen for all your health care needs!

- Glenda

Dr. Berkebile is the first Naturopathic Doctor I have been treated by. My experience working with her has been nothing but a positive and inspiring journey. Her knowledge about this medicine and patience has made me feel comfortable during my acupuncture treatments. Casey has been the only doctor that has seen me and treated me as an individual. I am not just another patient of hers. I have learned so much about my own health throughout my visits that I am extremely grateful to have her as my physician.

- Jacqui

I hired Dr. Jewell-Larsen to work with my college aged daughter who has been dealing with some health and stress issues. After just one visit, my daughter came back motivated and educated about what was going on in her body! She was tired of taking prescribed meds that only treated the symptoms and not the source of her problem…. Dr. Jewell-Larsen is direct, clear and treated her with respect. … I highly recommend her.

- Carol

Dr. Jewell-Larsen is a caring and compassionate health care provider who has a sincere desire to help you improve your health. She takes the time to listen and offers advice in many ways from exercise, to supplements, to changes in your diet. She gets back to you in a timely manner whether answering a question or researching something related to your treatment plan. I highly recommend her!

- Natalie

I am diabetic and after visiting Dr. Jen the first time, my blood sugar dropped from a diabetic level to a non-diabetic level, all within 2 weeks and with natural supplements. Of course, she would encourage me to exercise but that’s a difficult feat all by itself… I haven’t gone that far yet but I’ve already seen results. 
 I would highly, highly recommend Dr. Jen.

- Michael